Use ChatGPT language models to automatically translate your content through Directus Flows!
- This extension will solve the issue of poor translations by utilizing the OpenAI language models to more accurately translate your content in the absense of multi-lingual staff.
- Uses the OpenAI library to simplify the API interaction.
- This extention is known as an operation which is part of Flows. This allows this functionality to be customized to suit the majority of use cases.
- Given more time, I would branch out to other AI translation models and include notifications once the translations are complete.
- OpenAI API key with credits OpenAI.com
- Create a collection with a translation field
- Make note of the collections that are created. Usually languages and _translations
- Add this extension into the project's extensions/operations folder
- Update your project's environment file with the following:
OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
OPENAI_RATE_LIMIT="21000"The rate limit is in ms. By default ChatGPT limits free trial accounts to 3 API calls per minute. Setting this to 21000 (21 seconds) ensures this limit is not reached.
- Start/Restart Directus
- Create a new Flow with an Event trigger for your collection. I recommend using the item.create event
- Add a new operation to your flow and choose OpanAI Auto Translate
- Set the item ID to {{$trigger.key}} and collection to {{$trigger.collection}}
- Choose the translations collection and languages collection from the list, then Save and close the Flow
- Create a new item and wait a couple minutes (depending on your rate limit)
This is how it appears in the list of Operations when adding to a Flow.
Flow using this Operation
Example of the operation settings
Creating a new item in the collection
After a few minutes, opened the item and clicked the language dropdown. The progress bar for each translation is complete.
Example of the Russian translation performed by ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo
