Python script to translate via google translate

Question

I'm trying to learn python, so I decided to write a script that could translate something using google translate. Till now I wrote this:

import sys
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2
import urllib

data = {'sl':'en','tl':'it','text':'word'} 
request = urllib2.Request('http://www.translate.google.com', urllib.urlencode(data))

request.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11')
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
feeddata = opener.open(request).read()
#print feeddata
soup = BeautifulSoup(feeddata)
print soup.find('span', id="result_box")
print request.get_method()

And now I'm stuck. I can't see any bugs in it, but it still doesn't work (by that I mean that the script will run, but it wont translate the word).

Does anyone know how to fix it? (Sorry for my poor English)

Answer 1

I made this script if you want to check it: https://github.com/mouuff/Google-Translate-API : )