using System;

using System.Net.Http;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

/*

 *  Make sure to add Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package

 *  I used the latest (13.0.3 at the time)

 */

​

public class Program

{

    public static async Task Main()

    {

        const int POST_ID = 94;

        // Create an instance of HttpClient

        using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())

        {

            try

            {

                // Send a GET request to a URL

                HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync($"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/comments?postId={POST_ID}");

​

                // Ensure a successful response

                response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

​

                // Read the response content

                string responseData = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

                List<Comment> commentList = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Comment>>(responseData);

​

                // Display the response

                foreach (var comment in commentList)

                {

                    Console.WriteLine($"CommentID: {comment.Id} | Poster: {comment.Email}");

                    // There are additional fields returned, see Comment Class at bottom of file

                    // Get Google Translate Text as the comments are in Latin

                    string encodedUrl = Uri.EscapeDataString(comment.Body);

                    response = await client.GetAsync($"https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=auto&tl=en&dt=t&q={encodedUrl}");

                    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

                    responseData = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

                    string t = GetTranslation(responseData);

                    Console.WriteLine($"\t{t}");

                    Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------------------------");

                }

            }

            catch (HttpRequestException e)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Request error: " + e.Message);

            }

        }   

    }

    public static string GetTranslation(string json)

    {

       // Parse the JSON

        JArray jsonArray = JArray.Parse(json);

​

        // Create a list to hold the English text

        List<string> englishTexts = new List<string>();

        //// Google Translate API looks like the Following

        //// [ [ ["ENGLISH", . . .], ["ENGLISH", . . .], . . .] . . .]

        //// Need Each 1st Array Element in each Second Array Element

        JArray secondArray = (JArray)(jsonArray[0]);

        string result = String.Empty;

​

        // Loop through the JSON array and extract the English text

        for (int i = 0; i < secondArray.Count; i++)

        {

            result += secondArray[i][0].ToString();

        }

        return result;

    }

    // Root myDeserializedClass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Root>(myJsonResponse);

    // I use json2csharp for easy Json class construction

    public class Comment

    {

        [JsonProperty("postId")]

        public int PostId { get; set; }

​

        [JsonProperty("id")]

        public int Id { get; set; }

​

        [JsonProperty("name")]

        public string Name { get; set; }

​

        [JsonProperty("email")]

        public string Email { get; set; }

​

        [JsonProperty("body")]

        public string Body { get; set; }

    }

​

​

}