Whenever you get the chance to automate something to avoid repetitive manual work, go for it, because it will save you a lot of time and boost your productivity. That being said, let’s cut to the chase: the purpose of this article is to show you how to automate your localization workflow with the POEditor API. For this, we’ll go through a simple step by step guide. You’ll learn how to send your language data to POEditor and how to pull the translated work back into your software.
Knowledge of a programming language is required (any will do), but we’ll focus on the requests you need to make to the API.
All the information about the API is in the API Reference.
Before starting the actual work, get an API token from your POEditor account. You can find it in Account Settings > API Access.
Project setup
The first step is to create a project. Note that you need to do this only once and that you can also use the interface. It’s probably faster anyway.
Create a project:
curl -X POST https://api.poeditor.com/v2/projects/add \
-d api_token="e9eccebeccfr9wed638eb35f5e2d5600" \
-d name="Quick Guide"
