Babbel2Anki

Fetches vocabulary from Babbel and exports it to Anki-compatible deck. Better to use with babbel-chrome-extension, but can work standalone.

Tech/framework used

• Kotlin/Ktor
• Gradle

Installation

• Install Kotlin
• Install Gradle
• Install Anki Desktop
• Clone project to local machine.

How to run?

Via IntelliJ

• Run Application.kt
• Or run IntelliJ profile from .run directory

Via Jar

• ./gradlew build
• java -jar build/libs/babbel2anki-0.0.1.jar

How to use?

Babbel2Anki has one endpoint: POST localhost:8080/dictionary/download

Body:

{
    "url": "https://api.babbel.io/gamma/v5/en/accounts/4534c7db8cjc475793477185d114998p/learn_languages/ITA/learned_items",
    "deckName": "ITALIAN", 
    "learned_items": [
        {
            "id": "bbd83343815846eeb454b42202e6d926",
            "display_language_text": "What will you have?",
            "learn_language_text": "Tu cosa prendi?",
            "times_reviewed": 3,
            "last_reviewed_at": "2020-04-11T09:30:38Z",
            "knowledge_level": 2,
            "next_review_at": "2020-04-18",
            "created_at": "2020-04-01T11:01:00Z",
            "image": {
                "id": "f94032b1573e4f069882beb65c1fdb1c"
            },
            "sound": {
                "id": "770973f99b53425cbb17de68ab1964e0"
            }
        }]
}

• url - optional property, used to parse deck name(e.g. ITA) from Babbel API.
• deckName - optional property, used to parse deck name(e.g. ITALIAN)
• learned_items - array of objects, each object corresponds to a specific word/card.

Babbel2Anki

• converts such json into a file deck/<DECK_NAME>.csv with following format:
  <learnLanguageText>|<img src='<imageId>.png'/>|<displayLanguageText>>|[sound:<audioId>.mp3]. E.g.:
  Tu cosa prendi?|<img src='f94032b1573e4f069882beb65c1fdb1c.png'/>|What will you have?|[sound:770973f99b53425cbb17de68ab1964e0.mp3]
• downloads all resources(images and audios) to collection.media folder(e.g.: "/Users/pavelgordon/Library/Application Support/Anki2/Pavel/collection.media")

How to import to Anki

• During import use delimiter |.
• TBD

Plans

• Use AnkiConnect to import directly to Anki deck

Contact

Feel free to shoot a message at gordon.pav@gmail.com