Generate a Google Translate API token through the Socks5 proxy using gtoken.py

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On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 7:25:27 AM UTC+8, cameron... at gmail.com wrote:
> Just to follow on a bit to Dennis: 

But I can't any reply from Dennis in this issue.
 
> C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents\_Hg-Repositories\Python Progs>python 
> googletrans_test.py 
> Traceback (most recent call last): 
> File "googletrans_test.py", line 4, in <module> 
> tk = acquirer.do(text) 
> File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\googletrans\gtoken.py", line 194, in do 
> self._update() 
> File "C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\googletrans\gtoken.py", line 62, in _update
> code = self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1).replace('var ', '')
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
> The implication here is that: 
> 
> self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1) 
> 
> generates the error because: 
> 
> self.RE_TKK.search(r.text) 
> 
> returned None instead of a regular expression match object. That means 
> that "r.text" way not what was expected. 
> 
> Like Dennis, i note the remark "for internal use only", suggesting this 
> was some internal Google code for doing something fiddly. It may not be 
> the best thing for what you're trying to do. 
> 
> WRT to a socks proxy, Dennis showed that the issue occurs even without a 
> proxy. I would advocate doing all your debugging without trying to use 
> socks, then get to going through a socks proxy _after_ the main stuff is 
> working. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Cameron Simpson <c... at cskk.id.au>