Postby bedtime » Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:25 pm
I've used DeepL several times to translate 2000 line documents. It will allow for this. Your problem of being banned is not how much but how often.
I know with Google Translate you need to wait at least 10 seconds between translations if you're going to use it consistently. I suspect this is the same with DeepL. So long as I keep the translations 10-20 seconds apart, I could translate as much as I want—I've translated several 2000 line documents in a row.
Remember, it is not how much but how often. It doesn't matter if you're translating 5000 characters per translation or just 5.
Also, Google and DeepL may allow you to get away with translating every 5 seconds or so, but only for a few dozen translations. Doing this is walking a very thin line and I don't recommend it.
I made a program that uses Google Translate to translate epub books. It grabs as close to 5000 characters as possible and throws it to Google every 12 seconds. These epubs are as small as 20 pages to as large as 450, so far. Never a problem. I've kept the program translating for 17+ hours at a time, and wasn't blocked.
But as soon as I go under the minimum of 10 seconds wait time between translations for about a few dozen translations, I'm banned.
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