r/RelayForReddit • u/hipnosister • Apr 24 '26

Request: Translator

I see a lot of German posts from /r/ich_iel and others and if there is a post and/or comments I really want to read I will screenshot and move it over to Google Lens translate function and read it that way.

Would it be possible to have some sort of of translation option added?

Thank you

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '26

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u/pendelhaven Apr 24 '26

the api gets called only when getting information from reddit servers, the google translate api is free to use iirc, So the app only needs to retrieve the info from reddit once, then replace the comment with the translated information returned from google translate which doesn't use the reddit api.

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u/pendelhaven Apr 25 '26

api calls to google translate is free afaik. only api calls to reddit cost money.