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Welcome to the FlashGrab wiki. This repository is for development of the addon and its sample deck.
FlashGrab: an Anki addon for pulling flashcard data (one-way sync) from XML. Optimized for LIFT XML (from WeSay or FLEx).
Do you have data that you would like to drill yourself on in a flashcard program? Is that data available as an XML file? If so, you may be able to use Anki and this addon to pull your data in. (This tool has only been tested with LIFT input files, but it is a generic solution that could work with other XML formats too.)
Assumption: you want to do your editing elsewhere and simply pull the latest data into Anki; or, you will be importing your data one time and editing only in Anki after that.
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Anki: http://ankisrs.net/#download (Choose a desktop version for Windows, Mac, or Linux.)
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FlashGrab addon: In Anki, under Tools > Add-ons, paste in the number 618450151 (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/618450151). This location's first version was v0.8.7. If you had previously downloaded it from the original location, 915685712 (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/915685712), the last version there was also v0.8.7. For future upgrades, use the new number; if that does not work, uninstall (see below) and then install with the new number. (After installing any add-on, restart Anki.)
The original page also provided a summary and tips (now lost). Please see the readme here instead, https://github.com/sillsdev/flashgrab/blob/master/README.md , or the user manual. The manual can be read here, https://github.com/sillsdev/flashgrab/blob/master/syncxml/SyncFromXML_help.pdf, or the PDF can be opened directly from the "syncxml" folder in your Anki addons folder, after installing FlashGrab.
To completely uninstall, go to %USERPROFILE%/documents/Anki/addons on your computer (you can paste that directly into Windows Explorer; on Linux the path usually begins with a tilde, ~). Move syncx.py and the syncxml folder to a different location (don't just rename them). Optionally, move distutils, xml, xpath as well. Once you're sure you don't need the old version anymore, simply delete them. (All your data is stored elsewhere.)
Contact us: flashgrid_intl plus... @ and sil.org
Check out the FlashGrid wiki as well!
Open source is freely available under the same license as Anki. Created by Jonathan Coombs (SIL International 2014).