anki-N2N

Anki Notes To Notes - The command line tool for creating Anki notes from a txt file.

Requires installed ICU4c( uc component, version 67) and curl libraries. The program also requires running desktop Anki application with installed AnkiConnect plugin.
The program expects at least three program parameters:

$ anki-N2N path_to_file deck_name note_type [tag ...]

path_to_file - a full path to a file containing data for creating Anki cards. Please see example file. The file have to contain hyphen separated words representing Front and Back note fields. Empty lines, lines with duplicate Frond fields and lines or lines not following the text - text pattern (preceding and following spaces are ignored) will be ignored.
deck_name - The name of a deck. The deck has to already exist.
note_type - The name of a note type. The note has to already exist and have two fields: Front and Back.
tag - Optional. May be specified multiple times.

Building on Linux or MacOs

Obtain the sources:

$ git clone https://github.com/Roznovjak/anki-N2N.git

Build:

$mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

Mac users can generate Xcode project instead of make files:

$mkdir build_xcode
cd build
cmake -G "Xcode" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

Example

$ anki-N2N /Users/my_name/Documents/New_vocabulary.txt "Mi Español" "Spanish-Basic (and reversed card)" Español Vocabulario
$ XY notes( XY cards) have been created.

Warning

Don't forget to backup your Anki data.

Mac Users

Set export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/opt/icu4c if Cmake can't find ICU libraries.