googletrans Translate() not working on Spyder but works on Colab - python-3.x

Question

I am using googletrans Translator on offline data in local repo:
translator = Translator()
translations = []
for element in df['myText']:
translations.append(translator.translate(element).text)
df['translations'] = translations
On Google Colab it works fine(20 mins) but on my machine it takes 30 mins and stops with ReadTimeout error:
File "<ipython-input-9-2209313a9a78>", line 4, in <module>
translations.append(translator.translate(element).text)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 182, in translate
data = self._translate(text, dest, src, kwargs)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 83, in _translate
r = self.client.get(url, params=params)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpx\_client.py", line 763, in get
timeout=timeout,
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpx\_client.py", line 601, in request
request, auth=auth, allow_redirects=allow_redirects, timeout=timeout,
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpx\_client.py", line 621, in send
request, auth=auth, timeout=timeout, allow_redirects=allow_redirects,
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpx\_client.py", line 648, in send_handling_redirects
request, auth=auth, timeout=timeout, history=history
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpx\_client.py", line 684, in send_handling_auth
response = self.send_single_request(request, timeout)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpx\_client.py", line 719, in send_single_request
timeout=timeout.as_dict(),
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpcore\_sync\connection_pool.py", line 153, in request
method, url, headers=headers, stream=stream, timeout=timeout
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpcore\_sync\connection.py", line 78, in request
return self.connection.request(method, url, headers, stream, timeout)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpcore\_sync\http11.py", line 62, in request
) = self._receive_response(timeout)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpcore\_sync\http11.py", line 115, in _receive_response
event = self._receive_event(timeout)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpcore\_sync\http11.py", line 145, in _receive_event
data = self.socket.read(self.READ_NUM_BYTES, timeout)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpcore\_backends\sync.py", line 62, in read
return self.sock.recv(n)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\contextlib.py", line 130, in __exit__
self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\httpcore\_exceptions.py", line 12, in map_exceptions
raise to_exc(exc) from None
ReadTimeout: The read operation timed out
My machine: 16 GB Ram (i5 + NVIDIA);
Google Colab RAM: 0.87 GB/12.72 GB
# Data Size
len(df) : 1800
Not sure why doesn't it run on my local machine? I have worked on heavier datasets before.
I am using Python 3 (Spyder 4.0).

Answer 1

I'm having some problems with this translation as well... It appears that the error you're getting has nothing to do with your machine, but with the request to the API timing out. Try and pass a Timeout object from the httpx library to the Translator builder. Something like this:
import httpx
timeout = httpx.Timeout(5) # 5 seconds timeout
translator = Translator(timeout=timeout)
You can change to 5 to another value, if needed. It has solver the problem for me, so far.