anki_image
Addon to crawl images for Anki, Currently averaging successful image downloads for 95% of cards
LIMIT
Please refrain from doing more than 2000 cards in a day. The third party services that I use have full rights to deny service if everyone decides to hit them harder than that. Technically there's not a hard limit, but if I see anyone abusing this (and yes I do monitor the logs and have alerts setup), I reserve the right to deny abusers service use.
Ok, so couple of disclaimers, I fully expect this code to be safe to use, but I take no responsibility for any explosions or otherwise that could be caused by running any anki addons. Always make a backup first. yadayada
- The anki_image.ankiaddon file can be double clicked to to install.
- Press Yes in Anki to install it.
- You should see it in your Anki addons. Go to Tools, then Addons, then anki_image
- Double click it to open it's config
- Read the the Options on the right.
- Make sure you update your paid_email field to whatever email you purchased this add-on with
- Make sure you update your language field
- Make sure you create a Vocab field, Expression field, and Image field. If you know what you are doing, you can rename these to an existing field. If you do not know how to do this, please consult the anki manual or anki forum - it is outside the scope of this add-on.
- Restart Anki after you modify the add-on config
Make sure your note that you want to add an image to has a field named EXACTLY 'Vocab' or 'Expression' AND 'Image'. You can have both and then it will take Vocab first if it is non-empty and then Expression next. This allows you to use accurate images for your focus vocab if it exists for your card, and if not, you can use the more general Expression field in case you don't have a word to focus on in the Expression(sentence).
AGAIN, IMPORTANT: Have a field named Vocab. Have a field named Image. Optionally have a backup search field named Expression too.
Obviously this is not public yet so please don't distribute anything with it.
If the server changes at some point, which since this is still in beta, I reserve the right to do, I will inform you ASAP with how to keep your addon up and running. If you have any questions or issues don't hesitate to ask. In 5 years of running this addon, I have not needed to send out an update, as due to the way it's coded, I can fix most issues with bing/google images on my side.
If for some reason the addon doesn't function for you and we cant get things working despite both of us putting due diligence into it, I won't hesitate to refund your generous purchase. Thanks for the interest and support! enjoy!
Post-Setup Use
Go to the browser, select a few cards (1 or 2 maybe to start), go to the edit menu, you should see Bulk-add image, you can click on that and after a few seconds (first one usually takes 15s to wake up the server if no one has woken it up in the last hour), and it will freeze up until it is done. So after that, it will tell you what errors it encountered, how many failed and succeeded and how many seconds it took.
Final note: Don't use any private or sensitive data from your anki cards, I wouldn't think you would, but anything you search for, I will see in server logs, so please don't do an image search for your social security number :)
Questions & feedback
Hit me up on google hangouts and I'll give you real-time support: [email protected]