hanzi-pinyin-api

Create a personal REST API to translate Hanzi Chinese characters to Pinyin

About

This is a simple REST API that translates Hanzi Chinese characters to Pinyin. It uses the following two sources:

• Pinyin Jyutping Python Library
• DeepL Translation API. You need to setup a free account to get the API key

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Install the requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following variables:

APP_API_KEY_1=<your-api-key>:<user_alias>
APP_API_KEY_2=<your-api-key>:<user_alias>
DEEPL_API_KEY=<your-deepl-api-key>

• replace <your-api-key> with a secure random string of your choice. This will be used to authenticate requests to the API.
• Note: <user_alias> can be any string and can be used as an identifier of who is calling your API when looking at the API logs. e.g. 2lkmglk23m:sam
• APP_API_KEY_2 and upwards can be used to add additional API keys. You can add as many as you like.
• replace <your-deepl-api-key> with your created API key from DeepL.

4. Run the app: python main.py
5. The app will run by default on http://127.0.0.1:8000

Usage

When you run the app, you can access the API at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

You will also need to set the request header acces_token to the value of the APP_API_KEY variable you set in the .env file.

The API has two endpoints:

• / - returns hello world
• /hanzi/:hanzi-string - translates a Hanzi string to Pinyin