Open Google Chrome and visit the Chrome Store to. I chose ⌃⇧⌘D because that is similar to the official Look up shortcut. Note: Other browsers, such as Opera or Brave, are not supported at this time. Next open System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and scroll down to your new service. I chose name Translate to Estonian for obvious reasons. Open location '' & toLang & '/' & phraseĬhange myBrowser to your preferred browser and also toLang to desired destination language and then save the service. A window will open showing the permissions that Google Translate needs to run. Then paste in this AppleScript from below. Click on the Download button on the sidebar to go directly to the Google Translate page in the Chrome Store. Open Automator and create a New > Service, then search for Run AppleScript and drop that into the workflow. Also added a shortcut for it: ⌃⇧⌘D The AppleScript Document Conversion Issues, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer. Automator to the rescueĬombining sources like this question in apple.stackexchange and this blog post in blog.fosketts I created an Automator Service that takes selected text from any application and then opens Google Translate with Auto->ET translation of the selection. running Windows, Windows on the MacExchange in Mail, Boot Camp, Boot Camp.
Unfortunately this does not always help if the word in question is either not in English or the definition is equally puzzling. MacOS has very handy shortcut ⌃⌘D to look up translations in the built-in dictionary.
