google translate in Objective-C - objective-c

Question

I have seen some post which uses google translate web page.
NSString* englishString = [englishInputArray objectAtIndex:i];
NSString *urlPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"/translate_a/t?client=t&text=%#&langpair=en|fr",englishString];
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithScheme:#"http" host:#"translate.google.com" path:urlPath];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] ;
[request setURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
NSURLResponse *response;
NSError *error;
NSData *data;
data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSLog(#"Text: %#",result);
I have two questions:
1)the json return from the web page look like this
[[["Bonjour","Hello","",""]],[["interjection",["bonjour","salut","all\u00f4","tiens"]]],"en",,[["Bonjour",[5],1,0,1000,0,1,0]],[["Hello",4,,,""],["Hello",5,[["Bonjour",1000,1,0]],[[0,5]],"Hello"]],,,[],1]
Other than doing string manipulation is there a way to get the the exact translation string alone ie in tis case "Bonjour" alone.
2: Does anybody know if this is this a free service ? Google apis seems to be a paid service. But if you use web page is that a free service.

Answer 1

No. All API's I've used have always been either JSON or XML. There is no reason to use string manipulation when you can just parse the data into a readable structure
If you are looking to use another service that isn't paid, keep in mind there are normally strict limitations. Try something like: SDL https://www.beglobal.com/developers/api-documentation/
Have you read Google's Translate API Documentation?
https://developers.google.com/translate/
For example performing a GET request like so
GET https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=INSERT-YOUR-KEY&source=en&target=de&q=Hello%20world
Should return the following response:
{
"data": {
"translations": [
{
"translatedText": "Hallo Welt"
}
]
}
}
With this you can just parse the JSON and display the data