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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import os
+import argparse
+import time
+from googletrans import Translator
+from chardet.universaldetector import UniversalDetector
+import json
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="recursive translation of txt files", allow_abbrev=False)
+parser.add_argument("--directory", "-d", action="store", help="directory to scan")
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+textfiles = []
+for path in os.walk(args.directory):
+    if len(path[1]) > 0:
+        for file in path[2]:
+            fullpath = os.path.join(path[0], file)
+            split = os.path.splitext(file)
+            englishFilePath = os.path.join(path[0], split[0] + '_eng.txt')
+            if os.path.exists(englishFilePath):
+                if os.path.getsize(englishFilePath) == 0:
+                    print(os.path.getsize(englishFilePath))
+                    print(f"{englishFilePath} is zero size, removing")
+                    os.remove(englishFilePath)
+            if split[0].endswith('_eng'):
+                print(f"{path[0]} already has translation")
+                continue
+            if split[1] == '.txt':
+                textfiles.append(os.path.join(path[0], file))
+
+
+detector = UniversalDetector()
+for filename in textfiles:
+    with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
+        lines = f.readlines()
+        detector.reset()
+        for line in lines:
+            detector.feed(line)
+            if detector.done:
+                break
+        detector.close()
+
+    try:
+        with open(filename, 'r', encoding=detector.result['encoding']) as contents:
+            filecontents = contents.read()
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        print(f"can't decode {filename}")
+        continue
+
+    print(filename)
+    translator = Translator()
+    try:
+        translation = translator.translate(filecontents, dest='en')
+    except json.JSONDecodeError:
+        print("jsonerror")
+        continue
+
+    engfile = os.path.join(os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + '_eng.txt')
+
+    with open(engfile, 'w', encoding="utf8") as f:
+        f.write(translation.text)
+
+    time.sleep(5)