ScrapboxAutoTrans Development Diary 2022-01-12

A static site that is generated when edited in Notion.

nishio: I was trying to create a static site when editing in Scrapbox, so I'll just refer to the Vercel section!

Jun Harada: After making this, I wonder at what point people would use this, but why are you trying to do that?

nishio:

I want to put a machine translation in between.

Japanese output to Scrapbox is personally low-cost

I could try to send out messages in English if I wanted to, but I'm too lazy to do it.

There is more benefit in releasing a mechanically 60-point workmanship rather than a zero that does not start moving due to high static friction.

For context, I've translated most of the book myself, but I thought it would be more valuable to put it in Scrapbox than to sell it as an e-book, and I thought it would be better to have a connection with the projects that I use on a daily basis, which are updated frequently, than to put it alone. The project is in Japanese, so I decided to translate it by machine.

And there's one more piece of additional information, Scrapbox is trying too hard with JS and can't directly machine translate web pages.

Start by forking and tinkering with this for now.

I created a Vercel account.

Forked and deployed [Scrapbox Reader

You still don't understand anything.

I'm just looking at the URL and hitting the API, so it'll show up for projects other than my own as well.

I'll figure out later if that's a good idea or not.

When I put in machine translation in the future, if I hit the translation API that's triggered and charged for access, the crawlers will step on it and I'll go bankrupt, so I'll have to at least include a determination of whether it's my project or not.

What kind of trigger is used to translate, it doesn't seem to be access

Re-language what you wanted to do

I want a link to be made between my two or more different projects.

Not explicitly created as an inter-project link, but by common keywords

The current Scrapbox Reader, first of all, does not display links within the same project, so you have to start from the point of creating it.

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Tentatively named "ScrapboxAutoTrans" because it is difficult to handle without a name, but it is unknown if the key concept is an automatic translation

Like connecting multiple projects.

The biggest benefit for me and for this project is the combination of two public private projects.

Why not simply merge them because they are in different languages.

Not my immediate goal, but I'd like to embed Kozaneba.

What we did.

Fork Scrapbox Reader

Create an account in Vercel and deploy

Slight modification

Linked and 2-hop ahead related pages can now be displayed.

Aside from the appearance, the information is.

Think about multiple projects

Why not just hit both APIs?

If you have both, just display both with "both available" at the top.

If only one is available, silently display the one that is available.

After that is done, switch in the "user's language of choice".

If I had chosen English.

English version

Machine English translation of Japanese version

If I had chosen Japanese.

Japanese (language) version

Machine Japanese translation of the title of the English version only

I don't plan to do it, but I thought of it and made a note of it.

Prepare a project foo that anyone can edit.

When project/page is accessed, the API of foo/page is also tapped and displayed side by side

With a few adjustments to the appearance, it becomes a "comment box".

Next, hit the two projects and display them side by side

Before we do that, do you want to fix the link display a bit more and pull it upstream?

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