mozhi/README.md

Mozhi

Mozhi (spelt moḻi) is an alternative-frontend for many translation engines.

It was initially made as a maintained fork/rewrite of simplytranslate, but has grown to have a lot more features as well!

I'm initially focusing on the api and engines, but eventually Mozhi will have a functioning CLI and webapp.

Supported Engines:

• Google
• Reverso
• DeepL
• LibreTranslate
• Yandex
• MyMemory
• DuckDuckGo ( 1-1 with Bing Translate )

Projects that use Mozhi

• select2translate - Translate text from your selection clipboard using Mozhi
• Crow Translate - KDE Project written in C++ / Qt that allows you to translate and speak text using Mozhi

Where is the engine code?

The engine code has recently been split from the main codebase. Please check aryak/libmozhi for it.

Installing

You can either use docker or the build artifacts from CI jobs on git.projectsegfau.lt.

Building

GOPRIVATE=codeberg.org/aryak/libmozhi # Get latest commit since proxy server is a bit slow
go mod download
go run github.com/swaggo/swag/cmd/swag@latest init --parseDependency
go build -o mozhi

API Docs

Mozhi makes use of swagger (using the fiber middleware) to manage the documentation of the API.

You can find it in /api/swagger of any instance (example).

Why does Reverso not work?

Reverso sometimes blocks IPs of servers hosting mozhi, and since it doesn't have IPv6, an IP Rotator won't be viable. For more information, check out #27

Configuration

Features of Mozhi can be customized and toggled on/off using Environment Variables.

• MOZHI_PORT: Port the webserver listens on (if hosting API)
• MOZHI_LIBRETRANSLATE_URL: URL of Libretranslate instance (Example: MOZHI_LIBRETRANSLATE_URL=https://lt.psf.lt)
• MOZHI_DEFAULT_SOURCE_LANG: Language to default to if no source language is set by user. Defaults to Auto-Detect (or first available language in engines which dont support it)
• MOZHI_DEFAULT_PREFER_AUTODETECT: Prefer autodetect if available instead of specified/default source language. Defaults to false
• MOZHI_DEFAULT_TARGET_LANG: Language to default to if no target language is set by user. Defaults to English

These envvars turn off/on engines. By default all of them are enabled.

• MOZHI_GOOGLE_ENABLED
• MOZHI_REVERSO_ENABLED
• MOZHI_DEEPL_ENABLED
• MOZHI_LIBRETRANSLATE_ENABLED
• MOZHI_YANDEX_ENABLED
• MOZHI_MYMEMORY_ENABLED
• MOZHI_DUCKDUCKGO_ENABLED

Instances

Link	Cloudflare	Country	ISP
mozhi.aryak.me	No	India	Airtel
translate.bus-hit.me	No	Canada	Oracle
nyc1.mz.ggtyler.dev	No	USA	Royale Hosting
translate.projectsegfau.lt	No	Germany / USA / India	Avoro / Racknerd / Airtel
translate.nerdvpn.de	No	Ukraine	vsys.host
mozhi.ducks.party	No	Germany	Datalix
mozhi.frontendfriendly.xyz	No	USA	Hetzner
mozhi.pussthecat.org	No	Germany	Hetzner
mo.zorby.top	No	Germany	pawhost.de
mozhi.adminforge.de	No	Germany	Hetzner
translate.privacyredirect.com	No	Finland	Private WebHost
mozhi.canine.tools	No	USA	RoyaleHosting
mozhi.frontendfriendly.xyz (Tor)	No	USA	Hetzner
mozhi.ducks.party (Tor)	No	Germany	Datalix
mo.zorby.top (Tor)	No	Germany	pawhost.de
mo.zorby.top (I2P)	No	Germany	pawhost.de

Features

• An all mode where the responses of all supported engines will be shown.
• Autodetect which will show the language that was detected
• Text-To-Speech for multiple engines
• A good API (subjective :P)
• All the stuff you expect from a translation utility :)

Etymology

Mozhi is the word in Tamil for language. Simple as that :P

Credits

• Arya: creator
• Midou36o: made the logo
• py_: Design files
• Missuo: creating gDeepLX that does the hard part of making DeepL work
• translatepy: giving me the format of request for yandex engine
• SimplyTranslate: Inspiration and base code for the webui
• Rimgo: Code for embedding html in binary
• Bnyro: Parallelization of all engines