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Is it legal to use an API that is based on scraping translations and audio files (of the translations) from Google Translation, for personal use? I am not sure of the terms of use of Google Translate concerning that, I did some research but it's still not clear for me whether it's legal or not.
the APIs are:
for the translation: deep-translator: https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator
for the audio files: GTTS: https://gtts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (used along with playsound)
Google Translate doesn't seem to have a separate ToS from Google overall, but they do offer commercial pricing: https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing
The first 500K characters are free. Using more is supposed to be on a subscription basis.
If you are using the API as offered by Google, from your service account, and don't circumvent any restrictions, it should be legal.
