Googletrans Error- The handshake operation timed out

When I try to translate text using the googletrans module, I get an error:

httpcore._exceptions.ConnectTimeout: _ssl.c:1106: The handshake operation timed out

Here’s my code:

from tkinter import *
from googletrans import Translator , LANGUAGES

root = Tk()
root.geometry("500x500")

def translate():
    translator = Translator()
    translated_text = translator.translate(text=entry.get(),
                                           dest=languages_listbox.get(languages_listbox.curselection())) # Text does not get get translated and it throws an error
    output_label.config(text = f"Translated Text: {translated_text}")

entry = Entry(root , font = "consolas 14")
entry.place(x = 120 , y = 0)

entry.insert(0 , "Hello world")

languages_list = []

for key, value in LANGUAGES.items():
    languages_list.append(value)

languages_listbox_frame = Frame(root)
languages_listbox_frame.place(x = 120 , y = 50)

languages_listbox = Listbox(languages_listbox_frame , font = "calibri 14")
languages_listbox.grid(row = 0 , column = 0)

scrollbar = Scrollbar(languages_listbox_frame , orient = VERTICAL , command = languages_listbox.yview)
scrollbar.grid(row = 0 , column = 1 , sticky = N+S+E+W)

languages_listbox.config(yscrollcommand = scrollbar.set)

for language in languages_list:
    languages_listbox.insert(END , language)

languages_listbox.select_set(0)

translate_button = Button(root , text = "Translate" , font = "comicsansms 18 bold" , command = translate)
translate_button.place(x = 160 , y = 370)

output_label = Label(root , text = "Translated Text: " , font = "comicsansms 16 bold")
output_label.place(x = 5 , y = 460)

mainloop()

My code is very simple and I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it.

I tried changing the network connection, but it made no difference.

Is there any way to fix this problem?

It would be great if anyone could help me out.

Answer

Well that seems very much like an API error as google does not like when you send too much request, I cannot close this question either as the answer there is not an accepted one, anyway here is an alternative using deep_translator.

• Start by installing it:

pip install deep-translator

• Now I recommend you take a stroll down its docs, but ill include an example using Google Translate anyway. Start by importing it:

from deep_translator import GoogleTranslator

• Now create an initial instance of it, just to get the language map.

translator = GoogleTranslator(target='en')

languages_list = []
lang_map = translator.get_supported_languages(as_dict=True) # Get in form of dict

for key, value in lang_map.items():
    languages_list.append(key.title()) # Making first letter capital with title()

• Now for the translation part, change your function to the following:

def translate():
    lang = lang_map[languages_listbox.get(languages_listbox.curselection()[0]).lower()] # Get the corresponding language code from the dictionary    
    translator = GoogleTranslator(source='en',target=lang) # Create new instance with selected language
    translated_text = translator.translate(entry.get()) # Translate
    
    output_label.config(text = f"Translated Text: {translated_text}") # Update the text

Yes creating a new instance every time function is run is not a good idea, but I couldn’t find another successful method to change the target language once it is initially set. It does not seem to give any error as of now, unless your source and target languages are both same.

On a side note, it is better to use threading, as sometimes the API might take time to respond and it will freeze the GUI.