Google Cloud Translator Service Spoke

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  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Google Cloud Translator Service Spoke

    The Google Cloud Translator Service Spoke enables ServiceNow customers to dynamically translate user-entered text and detect the language of input text using Google’s translation service. Available through the ServiceNow Store, this spoke integrates with the Dynamic Translation framework and requires specific subscriptions and setup to operate.

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    Key Features

    • Language Detection: Provides subflows and actions to detect the language of input text.
    • Text Translation: Supports translating text to a single language or multiple languages through reusable subflows and actions.
    • Integration: Uses Google Translate API version v3 and integrates with ServiceNow’s Integration Hub leveraging connection and credential aliases for streamlined authentication management.
    • OAuth 2.0 Authentication: Requires configuring a Google Cloud account to generate OAuth 2.0 JWT Bearer Grant tokens for secure authorization.

    Subscription and Compatibility

    This spoke requires one of the following subscriptions:

    • Any ServiceNow subscription Professional level or above, including Dynamic Translation
    • Integration Hub subscription

    The Dynamic Translation plugin must be active and the spoke installed from the ServiceNow Store to use its capabilities.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Seamlessly incorporate language detection and translation into workflows without building custom integrations.
    • Use prebuilt subflows and actions to easily extend ServiceNow applications with multilingual support.
    • Manage authentication efficiently using connection aliases, reducing administrative overhead when migrating between environments or updating credentials.
    • Leverage Google’s robust translation API for accurate and scalable language services.

    Next Steps

    To implement this spoke, customers should:

    • Install the Google Cloud Translator Service Spoke from the ServiceNow Store.
    • Activate the Dynamic Translation plugin.
    • Configure a Google Cloud account to generate the required OAuth 2.0 JWT Bearer Grant tokens.
    • Set up the GoogleTranslation alias in Integration Hub for authentication management.
    • Incorporate the provided subflows and actions into their ServiceNow workflows to enable dynamic language detection and translation.

    Provides subflows and actions to dynamically translate the user-entered text, and to detect the language of the text using the Google translation service.

    Request apps on the Store

    Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

    Subscription

    This spoke requires one of the following subscriptions:See the Google Cloud Translator Service Spoke in ServiceNow Store.

    Supported versions

    Google Translate API version v3.

    Scope of the spoke in the Dynamic Translation framework

    To use Google Cloud Translator Service spoke in the Dynamic Translation framework, ensure that the spoke is installed in ServiceNow Store and the Dynamic Translation plugin is active. For more information, see Dynamic Translation.

    Spoke flows

    This spoke has no sample flows.

    Spoke subflows

    The Google Cloud Translator Service spoke provides subflows in the Published state to integrate with the Google translation service. These subflows can be used as part of other subflows and flows.

    Subflow Description
    Detect Language Contains a set of inputs, actions, and outputs to detect the language of the input text.
    Translate Text To Multiple Languages Contains a set of inputs, actions, and outputs to translate the input text to multiple languages.

    Spoke actions

    The Google Cloud Translator Service spoke provides actions to integrate with the Google translation service. Available actions include:

    Action Description
    Detect Language Detects the language of the input text.
    Translate Text To Single Language Translates the input text to a single language.
    Translate Text To Multiple Languages Translates the input text to multiple languages.

    Google account requirements

    The Google Cloud Translator Service spoke requires configuring your Google Cloud account to generate an OAuth 2.0 JWT Bearer Grant token.

    Connection and credential alias requirements

    Integration Hub uses aliases to manage connection and credential information, and OAuth credentials. Using an alias eliminates the need to configure multiple credentials and connection information profiles when using multiple environments. If the connection or credential information changes, you don't need to update any actions that use the connection.

    This spoke uses the GoogleTranslation alias record (sn_google_trans.GoogleTranslation) to authorize actions. For information about setting up the spoke, see Set up the Google Cloud Translator Service spoke.