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sethfalco/tldr-translation-pairs-gen — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-07-18 · repo last pushed 2025-11-01

TypeScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5QuietSetup · moderate

TL;DR

A command-line tool that extracts matching English/foreign-language sentence pairs from tldr-pages docs to build training data for free machine translation systems.

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    What it does
      Extracts translation pairs
      Matches same commands
      Skips unsure matches
    Tech stack
      TypeScript
      Command line tool
    Use cases
      Feed OPUS dataset
      Improve LibreTranslate
      Build translation datasets
    Audience
      Translation researchers
      Open source contributors
    Output
      TMX XML CSV JSON

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Generate an English-to-French (or any language pair) translation dataset from tldr-pages documentation.

REASON 2

Feed the extracted translation pairs into OPUS to help improve open-source machine translation research.

REASON 3

Build training data for a self-hosted translation tool like LibreTranslate.

REASON 4

Contribute reliable translation pairs by running the tool against your own local tldr-pages clone.

What's in the stack?

TypeScript

How it stacks up

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires cloning both this tool and the separate tldr-pages repository locally before running.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to clone tldr-pages and run tldr-translation-pairs-gen to produce an English-Spanish translation dataset.
Prompt 2
Explain how this tool avoids mismatched translation pairs when tldr-pages languages are out of sync.
Prompt 3
Walk me through configuring this tool to output a TMX file instead of CSV.
Prompt 4
How does this tool strip placeholders like {{filename}} before comparing command examples across languages?

Frequently asked questions

wtf is tldr-translation-pairs-gen?

A command-line tool that extracts matching English/foreign-language sentence pairs from tldr-pages docs to build training data for free machine translation systems.

What language is tldr-translation-pairs-gen written in?

Mainly TypeScript. The stack also includes TypeScript.

Is tldr-translation-pairs-gen actively maintained?

Quiet — no commits in 6-12 months (last push 2025-11-01).

How hard is tldr-translation-pairs-gen to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is tldr-translation-pairs-gen for?

Mainly developer.

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