open-tongues

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Zero-config website translation. One script tag, any language — powered by Claude AI.

How it works

Request → Memory Cache (L1) → SQLite (L2) → Claude API (L3) → Cache & Return

1. Add a script tag to your site
2. tongues scans the page for translatable text
3. Translations are cached at three levels for instant subsequent loads
4. New content is automatically detected via MutationObserver

Install

As an npm package

npm install open-tongues

import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { createHandler } from 'open-tongues'

const app = new Hono()
app.route('/tongues', createHandler({
  apiKey: process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY!,
}))

export default app

Then add the client script to your HTML:

<script src="/tongues/t.js" defer></script>

As a standalone server

git clone https://github.com/80x24/open-tongues.git
cd open-tongues
bun install

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env — add your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

bun dev

<script src="http://localhost:3000/t.js" defer></script>

API

createHandler(config)

Factory that returns a Hono app you can mount as a sub-router.

import { createHandler } from 'open-tongues'

app.route('/tongues', createHandler({
  apiKey: 'sk-ant-...',       // required
  dbPath: './tongues.db',      // default: ./tongues.db
  model: 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001', // default
  cacheSize: 10_000,           // L1 max entries (default: 10000)
  cacheTTL: 86_400_000,        // L1 TTL in ms (default: 24h)
  rateLimit: 100,              // per domain per minute (default: 100, 0 = disabled)
  corsOrigin: '*',             // CORS origin (default: *)
}))

createTranslator(config)

Standalone translation engine — use without Hono if you only need the translation logic.

import { createTranslator } from 'open-tongues'

const translator = createTranslator({
  apiKey: process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY!,
})

const result = await translator.translateTexts(
  ['Hello', 'Welcome'],
  'ko',
  'example.com'
)
// { "Hello": "안녕하세요", "Welcome": "환영합니다" }

REST Endpoints

When mounted via createHandler(), the following endpoints are available:

POST /api/translate

{
  "texts": ["Hello", "Welcome to our site"],
  "to": "ko",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "pageTitle": "My Site",
  "preprompt": "This is a food menu"
}

Response:

{
  "translations": {
    "Hello": "안녕하세요",
    "Welcome to our site": "저희 사이트에 오신 것을 환영합니다"
  }
}

GET /api/seo/render?url=...&lang=...

Server-side rendered translation for SEO crawlers.

POST /api/purge/:domain/:lang

Clear cached translations for a domain and language.

GET /health

Health check with cache statistics.

Client

Script tag options

<!-- Auto-translate on load (default) -->
<script src="https://YOUR_HOST/t.js" defer></script>

<!-- Manual mode — call window.t.setLocale("ko") to start -->
<script src="https://YOUR_HOST/t.js" data-manual defer></script>

<!-- Custom context for better translations -->
<script src="https://YOUR_HOST/t.js" data-preprompt="This is a food menu" defer></script>

Client API (window.t)

• t.setLocale("ko") — translate the page to a language
• t.restore() — revert to original text
• t.translateEl(target) — translate specific elements (bypasses root's translate="no")
• t.translateEl(target, { to: "ko" }) — translate specific elements to a locale without changing global state
• t.locale — current locale (read-only)
• t.sourceLocale — source language (read-only)

Scoped Translation

Use translateEl with { to } to translate specific sections independently — no setLocale needed:

<nav>UI stays in original language</nav>
<main translate="no">Content translated on demand</main>

// Translate only the content area to Korean
await t.translateEl("main", { to: "ko" });

// Switch to English — only main changes, UI untouched
await t.translateEl("main", { to: "en" });

// Restore to original — no API call
await t.translateEl("main", { to: t.sourceLocale });

This is useful when you want to translate content independently from UI, or when different sections need different languages.

Exclude from translation

<span translate="no">Brand Name</span>
<span class="notranslate">Keep Original</span>

Importing the client bundle

If you're bundling the client yourself:

import 'open-tongues/client'

Docker

docker build -t tongues .
docker run -p 3000:3000 -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... tongues

Environment Variables (standalone mode)

Variable	Required	Default	Description
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Yes	—	Claude API key
PORT	No	3000	Server port
DB_PATH	No	./tongues.db	SQLite database path

License

MIT