Automate Translation with Bing
May 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM | Posted in General | Leave a commentTags: api, bing, translate, VBA
I recently wrote about translation in the new Office 2010 suite.
Jimmy brings us a different approach which can work in older Excel versions as well.
In this script, he interfaces with Bing’s public API for translation. You do need an AppID (which is available for free) for this, though.
He also mentions a couple other methods for translation at the beginning of the article. One of them is automating Internet Explorer itself!
Library for accessing NY state API
April 30, 2010 at 5:16 PM | Posted in General | Leave a commentTags: api, interoperability, ny, VBA
I didn’t know this, but The State of New York has an API for legislature data, which you can fetch directly into your applications.
Jimmy Peña of CodeForExcelAndOutlook blog wrote a full-fledged VBA library to access this API and fetch the data for use in Office.
If you intend to use this, please do read the terms of use, and get yourself an API key.
Now, I don’t have much use for this data usually, but I know a couple of people who do, and I like the idea of interoperability. So this is a very good thing.
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