How To Check Character Count For Google Translation API?

I am using the following code to translate using the google translation API from google.cloud import translate_v2 as translate translate_client = translate.Client(credentials=cred

Solution 1:

Even I do not think there is a direct way of requesting such information (apart from the console), there is a way of creating alerting policies internally.

You can set an alerting policy that is triggered for a certain number of requested bytes and apply 1 char = 8 bit = 1 byte.

In order to do that, you should go Monitoring -> Alerting -> Create New Policy ->

  ·Resource type: Consumed API
  ·Metric: Request sizes 
  ·Filter -> Service = translate.googleapis.com

and configure as much triggers as you like. I hope this finds well!

Solution 2:

Try storing the value in a file? Every time you translate n characters,

1. read the count from file
2. increment count by n
3. write count back to the file