Jsproxy for Crowdin

Extremely easy way to translate your “untranslatable” website. Very well suited for static content.

Import Your Website

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Jsproxy will crawl your website and extract all of the translatable texts. In your Crowdin project you will find a new file with every text for translation.

Publish Translations

Latest translations will be available for over-the-air delivery for your website

Integration

Please import your site and publish translations first.
Useful when you are testing the technology. Website crawling takes time. Set the limit of how many pages you want to translate. Default is 10000.
You can specify which paths to crawl or exclude. If not specified, all pages will be imported.

You can use wildcard symbols such as * or ** or exclude paths with ! at the beginning of path.

Include paths examples:
/about - Will match exact page /about
/page/** - Will match all pages starting with /page/
/article/* - Will match all pages with one level above /article/, for example /article/1/2 will not be matched as it has more than one level
/**/comments - Will match all pages that end with /comments

Exclude paths examples:
!/page/** - Will exclude all pages starting with /page/

What is Jsproxy for Crowdin?

It's an extremely easy way to translate your “untranslatable” website. Very well suited for static content, Knowledge Bases, landing pages, status pages and other non mission critical content

How do I translate mission-critical content?

The content should be extracted from your CMS or Application, translated and put back as a new language

How does it work?

  1. Import you website
    At this step you don’t have to make any changes to your website. Jsproxy will crawl your website and extract all of the translatable texts. In your Crowdin project you will find a new file with every text for translation.
  2. Publish translations
    Add a piece of JavaScript to your website as you do with Google Analytics. This is to let your visitors see the “Switch language” button. This button will also download the latest translations from Crowdin and show your website multilingual per visitor request.

How to set up the Jsproxy integration?

  1. Enter your website’s URL and click Import. Website content will be scanned and automatically added as a .json file to the Files section.
  2. Choose your translation strategy and translate your website
  3. Add a language-switcher to your website by inserting the JavaScript snippet displayed on the app configuration page inside the <head> tag of a page or before the </body> tag.
  4. Use the Import section of this plugin every time new content on your website needs to be translated.
  5. Click Distribute to publish new translations.

Jsproxy customization

You can customize Jsproxy integration by sending the following parameters:
    • position:
    • 'bottom-right' | 'top-right' | 'bottom-left' | 'top-left' (for sticky position)
    • 'inline' | 'left' | 'right' (for inline position)
  • submenuPosition: 'top-right' | 'bottom-right' | 'top-left' | 'bottom-left'
  • class: 'some-value-for-your-custom-class'
Example:
  <script>
    window.proxyTranslator.init({
      distributionBaseUrl: "https://dev-crowdin-distribution.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com",
      filePath: "/example.com.json",
      distribution: "e-65caabe61ca575d56e7d161a",
      languages: {"uk":"Ukrainian"},
      defaultLanguage: "en",
      defaultLanguageTitle: "English",
      poweredBy: true,
      position: "top-right",
      submenuPosition: "bottom-right",
      class: "some-value-for-your-custom-class",
    });
  </script>

I don’t feel safe using this technology

  • Jsproxy has been built around open source components. Even if this addon disappears completely your translations are safe.
  • The translated content lives on Crowdin Distribution (the CDN), that is the official component of Crowdin. The small piece of JavaScript that you include to your website is an open source library called i18nextify.
  • No vendor lock! You can decide to stop using this addon or Crowdin at all and keep your website multilingual.

How much does this cost?

Jsproxy is free! Still, you have to have a Crowdin subscription and Crowdin Distribution credits. Please refer to the Crowdin’s pricing page.

I have question or help with the configuration

Crowdin provides 24x7 support

I would like to see some use cases

Some of the services that integrate with Jsproxy very well:

  • statuspage.io
  • Unbounce
  • Readme.io
  • Help Scout Docs
  • Wordpress websites