Google Translate (Text Only)

This is the stripped-down sibling of GoogleTranslateCLIPTextEncode from the same pack: it translates text and returns it as a STRING, no CLIP encode, no conditioning. If you want to translate a prompt but then do something with the text other than feeding it straight into a text encoder - paste it into a composed prompt, merge it with tags, translate a caption for a LoRA dataset, run it through a second node - this is the one.

Like the whole translate family here, it's free, needs no key, and leans on the googletrans library scraping Google's free endpoint. The node is literally a subclass of the CLIP-encode version with the clip input removed and only the translated string returned.

Inputs and output

• from_translate - source language, default auto (auto-detect among ~245 codes).
• to_translate - target language, default en.
• text - the text to translate, multiline.

Output: text, the translated STRING.

That's the whole surface. Wire it into a text-concat node, a CLIP Text Encode, a filename, or a display node - anything that eats a string.

The honest caveats

Same as the CLIP version, because it's the same engine: it's a scraper, so it's rate-limited and occasionally flaky, and it needs network on every run. If translations come back empty, that's googletrans hitting Google's limits, not a broken node. And because it's a mechanical translator, weighted prompt syntax ((word:1.4)) and Danbooru-style tags can get mangled - keep that in mind when you feed it prompt text rather than prose. It's also async under the hood (it reuses the same run_async helper), so it won't block your graph while Google responds.

If you already have AlekPet's ComfyUI_Custom_Nodes_AlekPet installed, you likely have this node under a similar name - this is a fork of that code. And if you never need the string and just want conditioning, reach for the CLIP Text Encode variant instead, which does the encode for you.

Install

ComfyUI Manager: search ComfyUI_Gayrat and install. By hand:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/gayratv/ComfyUI_Gayrat
cd ComfyUI_Gayrat
pip install -r requirements.txt

Restart ComfyUI; it's under Gayrat/translate. No models to download, nothing heavy - just googletrans and friends from the pack's requirements.