Description

This is a simple Python script that takes a text file containing English words (one on each line) and generates an Anki vocabulary deck out of it such that the front of the card contains the given word and the back contains the meanings/definitions for that word. That's pretty much it!

Usage

• First, install the required dependencies:

   $ pip install genanki requests
  

• Run the script:

   $ python ankify.py words.txt
  

  Just replace words.txt with the name of your own text file and the script will start working on building your deck. When it's done you should see a vocabulary_deck.apkg file in your directory. You can now import your deck into Anki and start improving your vocab!

Example output card images:

Below are some cards from my vocabulary deck (imported in AnkiDroid) just to demonstrate how the generated cards look like in action:

Sidenotes:

The script uses the Datamuse API for fetching the word meanings mainly because its freely available to use by anyone without requiring you to register an account unlike most other dictionary APIs which need you to sign up on their platform just to get their API keys (which are rather rate-limited as well). Also the genanki library came in very handy for programatically generating Anki decks/cards.