Added detection of lanugage in English

anim.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from textblob import TextBlob, exceptions
 import re
 from google.cloud import translate_v2 as translate
+from langdetect import detect
 
 nlp = spacy.load("xx_ent_wiki_sm")
 nlp.add_pipe(nlp.create_pipe('sentencizer'))
@@ -715,11 +716,15 @@ def comments_to_scene(comments: List, characters: Dict, **kwargs):
     inv_characters = {v: k for k, v in characters.items()}
     for comment in comments:
         try:
-            if (official_api):
-                result = translate_client.translate(comment.body, target_language="en")
-                blob = TextBlob(result["translatedText"])
-            else: 
-                blob = TextBlob(comment.body).translate()
+            # We don't need to translate if we are already in english
+            if (detect(comment.body) == 'en'):
+                blob = TextBlob(comment.body)
+            else:
+                if (official_api):
+                    result = translate_client.translate(comment.body, target_language="en")
+                    blob = TextBlob(result["translatedText"])
+                else: 
+                    blob = TextBlob(comment.body).translate()
         except Exception as e:
             print(e)
             blob = TextBlob(comment.body)

example.py

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ def __init__(self, username: str, text: str, score: int = 0):
     MockRedditComment('a', 'Hello as I am the most common I will be Phoenix'),
     MockRedditComment('b', 'wassup I\'m edgyboy'),
     MockRedditComment('c', 'I\'m someone random and I\'m angry', score=-1),
+    MockRedditComment('c', 'Bonjour, je m\'appelle Louis', score=-1),
+    MockRedditComment('c', ':(', score=-1),
     MockRedditComment('d', 'd', score=-1),
     MockRedditComment('e', 'e', score=-1),
     MockRedditComment('f', 'f', score=-1),

requirements.txt

@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ praw
 tinydb
 https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/xx_ent_wiki_sm-2.3.0/xx_ent_wiki_sm-2.3.0.tar.gz 
 google-cloud-translate==2.0.1
+langdetect