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I would like to use Zapier for sending text from an Airtable table to Deepl and get the translated text back.

Does anybody have any experience? Is possible to do that? Deepl have an API, I think is possible to connect the two things, but I am not an exper of API

Many thanks in advance.

 

Hi @Bobonez 

Good question.

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You may be able to use the Webhooks app as an action step with the DeepL API.

 

 


Hi @Bobonez! Welcome to the Zapier Community!

Here is what I would recommend for you:

Setting Up Airtable

  1. Be sure you have a “Last Modified Time” field. You can make it hidden if you don’t want to see it.
  2. Add a “Ready to Translate?” checkbox field that you will check off, naturally, once an item is ready to translate.
  3. Create a view named “Needs Translating” with the following filters:
    • {{text_to_be_translated}} is not empty
    • and {{translated_text}} is empty
    • and Ready to Translate? is ✅

Zapier Trigger

App: Airtable

Event: New or Updated Record

Base: {{your_database}}

Table: {{your_table}}

Which timestamp field should this Zap...: Last Time Modified

Limit to View: Needs Translating

Zapier Action

App: Webhooks by Zapier

Event: POST

URL: https://api-free.deepl.com/v2/translate

Payload Type: form

Data:

  • text
    • Dynamically pull in {{text_to_be_translated}} from trigger step
  • target_lang
    • {{two character language (like FR for French or DE for German)}}

Wrap Request in Array: No

Unflatten: Yes

Headers:

  • Authorization
    • DeepL-Auth-Key {{your_authorization_key_goes_here (you can find this in your account settings)}}

Zapier Action

App: Airtable

Event: Update Record

Base: {{your_database}}

Table: {{your_table}}

Record: Dynamically pull in {{record_id}} from trigger step

{{translated_text}}: Dynamically pull in {{translations_text}} from previous action

Here is a quick video walking you through this setup as well :)
https://www.loom.com/share/21cfa5ce6dd44367b4ccdf39b0031448

Let me know if you still have any questions!!


Thank you very much! You saved me hours of work! The solution works perfectly!


@Bobonez Happy to help! Glad the solution worked for you!