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Ephraim Duncan
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Translate Markdown(Readme.md) to Any Language.

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I have seen for a while that contributors of many open source projects require other developers who are fluent in certain languages to translate thier documentation to thier language, and this being a good thing to do, it sometimes waste time and also some languages are not translated. Translate Readme is a Github Action that translate your Readme(for now) to other languages supported by Google Translate. It is free and open-source

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Translate Github Readme to any other Language


Create a workflow file with the code below to use the action in your repository
name: Translate Readme

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 12.x
      - name: Adding License
        uses: dephraiim/translate-readme@v1
        with:
          LANG: zh-CN # Simplified Chinese
          # Change the language to your specified language.
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Additional Resources / Info

Check https://github.com/dephraiim/translate-readme/issues/1 for a minor issue I found during testing. This action supports all markdown files but I have made it Readme.md specific for the mean time.

I tested it on a fork of 33-js-concepts. Find it here

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Can I see your test.yml file?