Sentiment analysis using TextBlob for Dutch language - python-2.7

Question

I want to do sentiment analysis of a list of tweets fetched based on a particular keyword. The tweets coming in are mostly in dutch language and TextBlob needs them converted to English in order to compute the tweet's polarity and subjectivity value. How can I convert the tweet to English language? I basically need a FREE API to do the translation. Having trouble using the MS Bing Translator. I have tried using goslate , langdetect , translate and translation libraries but none of them worked. Here's the code that I am using :
#!/usr/bin/env python
import tweepy
import goslate
from langdetect import detect
from translation import baidu, google, youdao, iciba
from translate import Translator
import os
import time
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
t=time.time()
#karan's api keys
consumer_key = 'xxx'
consumer_secret = 'xxx'
access_key = 'xxx'
access_secret = 'xxx'
gs=goslate.Goslate()
translator= Translator(to_lang="en")
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
search_results = api.search(q="football", count=2, geocode="52.132633,5.2912659999999505,300km")
f=open('tweets_football.txt','wb')
for i in range(0,len(search_results)):
try:
print search_results[i].text
print search_results[i].id
print search_results[i].user.screen_name
trans=search_results[i].text
#print(gs.translate(trans,'en'))
print(translator.translate(trans))
if search_results[i].text not in search_results:
f.write(search_results[i].text)
f.write("\n")
print "Written to file!"
except Exception as e:
print str(e)
f.close()
print time.time()-t
Please point me in the right direction. If there's an easier method for this process, please suggest that as well. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can try this code:
from translate import Translator
from googletrans import Translator
text = 'hallo_allemaal'
entext = Translator().translate(text, src='nl',dest='en').text
print(entext)
Google API has some limitations of number of hits from one IP. if you get that error. Check out for that too.

Answer 2

There is a Ducth package for textblob as textblob-nl. You can install it via pip install textblob
Official sample:
from textblob import TextBlob
from textblob_nl import PatternTagger, PatternAnalyzer
text = u"De kat wil wel vis eten maar geen poot nat maken."
blob = TextBlob(text, pos_tagger=PatternTagger(), analyzer=PatternAnalyzer())
blob.sentiment
>>> (-0.1, 0.4)
You can find more information: https://github.com/gvisniuc/textblob-nl