anki-remote

A command line interface for querying and managing Anki's user interface remotely.

Installation

Ubuntu

1. Install AnkiConnect and restart Anki
2. Clone this repository
3. Install python-requests, e.g. via sudo apt install python-requests

Other platforms

1. Install python and pip, e.g. with sudo apt install python python-pip.
2. Install AnkiConnect and restart Anki
3. Clone this repository
4. Run pip install -r requirements.txt in the project root directory

Usage

Launching the add cards window:

./anki-remote -a

Launching the card browser:

./anki-remote -b

Performing a search:

./anki-remote -b "osteoporosis"

Run with -h for more details on other options.

Credits and License

anki-remote is Copyright © 2017 Aristotelis P.

Licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.

This project is largely based on ankicli by David Sheperd which is also licensed under GNU AGPLv3.

I would also like to extend my thanks to Alex Yatskov for providing us with an easy-to-use API to Anki in the form of AnkiConnect.