jisho-scraper-for-anki

Jisho Scraper For Anki is a web scraper to create Anki notes for Japanese vocabulary and kanji from Jisho links. It reads Jisho links line by line from a .txt file and outputs a bundle of notes as a .csv file to be imported to Anki. Fields include html scraped from Jisho, used with styling of Jisho to create notes which look like Jisho pages with some custom changes. Check

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or above
• Python modules requests and Beautiful Soup 4

Create Vocab Cards

1. Create a note type in Anki with following fields: {Word, Furigana, Sound, Jisho Tags, Meanings, Kanji In Word}

2. Use the html from this gist for the back template of cards.

3. Use the CSS from this gist to make back of the cards look like Jisho pages.

4. Set ANKI_MEDIA_PATH to Anki collection.media folder path as an environment variable. Refer to related Anki docs page where this folder might be according to your operating system.

5. Create a .txt file. Write Jisho links you want to make into notes line by line.

   https://jisho.org/word/%E7%9C%BC%E9%8F%A1
   https://jisho.org/word/%E6%9C%AC%E6%A3%9A
   https://jisho.org/word/%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%88%E5%A4%AB
   

6. Run main.py with your input/output path

   python main.py -I YOUR/PATH/jisho_links.txt -O YOUR/PATH/anki_notes.csv --to_card vocab
   

7. Import .csv file into Anki with these settings:

• Fields seperated by: Comma
• Uncheck 'Allow HTML in fields'
• Make sure all 6 fields are mapped correctly

Create Kanji Cards

1. Create a note type in Anki with following fields: {Kanji, Description, Kun, On, Level, Link}
2. Use html from this gist for the back template of cards.
3. Use the CSS from this gist.
4. Create a .txt file that contains Jisho links like as before.
5. Run main.py with --to_card kanji flag instead.
6. Import .csv file the same way.

Download All Kanji From Search Link

Outputs a .txt file that contains links from all kanji search results from the link. You can later use it to create kanji cards for Anki.

1. Run main.py with your output path and kanji search link

   python main.py -O /YOUR/PATH/kanjilist.txt --list kanji -u "https://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20%23jinmei"
   

Get Verb Inflections From Search Link

1. Run main.py with your output path and verb search link

   python main.py -O /YOUR/PATH/verbinf_notes.csv --verb_inflections