Dear Monks,
I started using this module on my web srever with "service => 'Yahoo'" and everything was fine until I started being banned after sending say 8-10 translation requests.
Does anybody have such experience? Do they need some registration key or whatever? I use it this way: 
use WWW::Babelfish;

my $obj = new WWW::Babelfish    ( 
                service => 'Yahoo',
                agent     => $user_agent, 
                );
 
if (defined($obj))
{
    $text = $obj->translate    ( 
                'source'     => 'Dutch',
                                'destination'     => 'English',
                                'text'         => $text,
                                'delimiter'     => "\n\t",    
                );

    $text = "Could Not Translate: " . $obj->error if(! defined($text))
}
else
{
    $text = "Translation server unavailable"
}

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Another question is what do I need to be able to use Google as "service"? They do require some key and something else. Could someone share experience.

In reply to WWW::Babelfish usage problem by vit

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