I love Duolingo, but the word bank system is massively annoying. Once I know the translation, I don't want to waste my time finding the right words to click, and you probably don't either!
DuolinGoFaster is a FastAPI app with endpoints exposed through localhost. A Chrome extension frontend adds a button to Duolingo that sends question data to the app (only for questions that enforce word bank usage), which then uses GPT-3.5 to translate. The frontend then selects the right words for you!
Note: currently only supports translation to English, although the prompt in translation_api/main.py can easily be modified to support any desired language.
Before proceeding, paste your OpenAI API key into a file named openai_key.txt in the project root directory. Note you may need to set up billing for API access. Costs incurred by using this application are your fault, not mine!
pip install fastapi
pip install --upgrade openai
pip install uvicorn # to run local server
Navigate to translation_api and run uvicorn main:app --reload. Note the port number used for the server. You may need to update manifest.json in scripts/ accordingly (within permissions and web-accessible-resources).
Navigate to chrome://extensions in Google Chrome, click Load unpacked, and select scripts/.
- You may get an error regarding
Permission 'http://localhost:<PORT_NUMBER>/*' is unknown or URL pattern is malformed.This is a-ok
Ready to go!
Sometimes the timing doesn't work out and the question detection doesn't detect it's the right type of question, which is why there's a physical button now that triggers the process. Just makes a better user experience.