Web timeout

Hello,

I am trying to translate a text in excel using googleapis.

When I type the URL:

"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=Text+to+translate&langpair=en%7Cpt"

directly in the browser I get a text response:

{"responseData": {"translatedText":"Texto para traduzir"}, "responseDetails": null, "responseStatus": 200}

which has the translated text in it.

Now I am trying to automate this in Excel. How can I send the URL and catch the response? This is part of the code I have but when it gets to objHTTP.Send, it waits until the timeout and fails. Any idea?

vb.net Code:

Function fTranslate() As String
 
    Dim objHTTP As Object
    Dim URL As String
    
    Set objHTTP = CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")
   
    URL = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=Text+to+translate&langpair=en%7Cpt"
 
    objHTTP.Open "GET", URL, False
    objHTTP.setTimeouts 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000
    objHTTP.send ("")
 
    fTranslate = objHTTP.ResponseText
 
End Function