anki-connect VS mdanki

Creating a Node.js Scraper: Initially, I created a web scraper for my Anki collection using Anki Connect and Node.js. I chose Node.js because I believed that using Rust would require defining every field for the response object(later found out I was wrong). Encountered issues: My program kept crashing due to not specifying the query to be of the same type(as I am writing this I realize I could have just did if(note.field == undefined) continue;) or the TypeScript ?. Resorting to single requests: To resolve the issue, I decided to send one request per card, resulting in processing 50,000 cards, which took 15-30 minutes.

Has anyone used the insertReviews() function before to simulate answering cards programmatically? I’m not able to find much information online regarding it (perhaps because it is relatively new). I am not confident enough in my knowledge of Anki’s review algorithm to attempt replicating its behavior on all 9 of the required inputs for each review (see the 'Manual Analysis' subsection here); wanted to reach out here to see if anyone had experience with the function they would like to share.

I do however create all my decks in Emacs' Org mode using louietan/anki-editor and export to Anki via the plugin FooSoft/anki-connect. This way I never worry about my decks getting corrupted. I actually just have one large deck but anki-editor allows me to separate my deck into separate org files which is convenient.

Another tool I've used if you have the Anki app is the Anki-Connect plugin https://github.com/FooSoft/anki-connect

It supports curl, python, javascript, etc to add cards and supports an incredible amount of actions to interact with Anki.

Example:

Just to add a footnote to the above: I wasn't aware of https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/ so what I'm thinking about is very doable right now, and probably being done.

I've made a small script to make cards with audio. Following the manual at https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/, I have an audio field of:

I dont think there's a public/documented Ankiweb api. You could use AnkiConnect to interface with your locally running instance of Anki: https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/

Read the AnkiConnect documentation. You can interact with AnkiConnect in any language environment you wish. I've mostly - but not exclusively - used Python. It would probably be a very forgiving way to begin.

I write my cards in plaintext (Emacs Org mode via anki-editor) and push them to Anki via anki-connect. The advantages for me are:

create Anki cards with Emac's anki-editor and push them to Anki with anki-connect. There is also a markdown equivalent of anki-editor if you prefer that format plus packages to perform your SRS within Emacs itself such as org-drill, org-fc and pamparam.

I’ve recently had a go at writing loads of card in MarkDown and then converted them to Anki using “mdanki”: https://github.com/ashlinchak/mdanki

I have seen markdown parser tools and add-ons, eg * https://github.com/ashlinchak/mdanki * https://github.com/benwr/ankdown * https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2141874715

I've also created a similar tool using python. Markdown anki decks. It uses similar syntax to your tool. I've used it to create several hundred cards and it's quite convenient. One issue with mdanki is reimporting the same apkg creates duplicates. This basically makes mdanki useless since you can't track progress on cards you've created with markdown. Markdown-anki-decks gets around this by uniquely generating a hash for each question and using that as the unique id for the card. The limitation is if the question changes you lose progress but that seems reasonable. Markdown anki decks also handles some more advanced features of anki such as clozes. Lastly my tool can communicate with anki-connect which makes importing decks automatic. Anyway happy to see other people working on this. Just want to give you some sense of the features I've found useful.