Upload translation
MCP
upload_translationWRITE$0.00001 / call
Features
Upload or replace a translation for a workspace document. Creates a draft by default. This is how an EXTERNAL translator returns its work: the translation webhook notifies you, you translate, you call this. Pass back the source_blob_sha the webhook gave you as source_hash and set origin 'external_api', or the freshness surfaces cannot tell which commit your translation belongs to. The language starts being served to readers as soon as the first page is uploaded — there is no separate activation step.
Input7
Your API key, for the REST call. Sent from your browser straight to the API — never to Docsbook, never stored.
Numeric workspace id — OR the project as the user names it: 'owner/repo', the repo name alone, the site's display name, its docs URL or custom domain. Text is resolved server-side; an ambiguous name returns the candidates instead of guessing, so pass what the user said rather than calling list_workspaces first.
Source document path (e.g. 'guides/quick-start.md')
Target language code (e.g. 'es', 'fr')
Translated content
Status (default: draft) One of:
draft, published, outdated.Git blob sha (40 hex) of the SOURCE file this was translated FROM — pass the
source_blob_sha the translation webhook delivered, verbatim. This is what makes 'is this commit translated?' answerable: without it the row records only a hash of your own output, which no commit can ever match. Omit for a hand-written translation whose freshness is a person's call.Who produced it: 'external_api' for a machine translator answering the webhook (compared against the repo like any machine translation), 'manual_upload' for a person's own words (never reported as stale). Default 'manual_upload'. One of:
manual_upload, external_api.Output5
Whether this row can be matched to a commit — true only when a source_hash was supplied AND origin is external_api. False means the owner's coverage surfaces will read it as 'manual': present, but not attributable to any commit.
{ origin, status, updatedAt } of the row that was overwritten.
Limitations
- REQUIRES PRO or higher.
Example input
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "upload_translation",
"arguments": {
"workspace_id": "<workspace_id>",
"source_path": "<source_path>",
"language": "<language>",
"content": "<content>",
"status": "draft",
"origin": "manual_upload"
}
}
}Example output
{
"status": "<status>",
"translation": {},
"comparable": true,
"replaced_ai_translation": true,
"replaced": {}
}