ernestohegi / wanikani-leeches-to-anki-sentence

🐊🦀 Gets all your leeches from WaniKani and creates an Anki exportable file with the troublesome item plus WaniKani sentences related to it. It only works with vocabulary items, as they are the only ones that have sentences.

wanikani-leeches-to-anki-sentence

The motivation for this repository comes after countless hours reviewing leeches and finding the only solution that helped me to squash them is learning the item with context. WaniKani sentences are great to provide context. All the leeched items I reviewed using this technique are no more leeches.

Gets all your leeches from WaniKani and creates an Anki exportable file with the troublesome item plus WaniKani sentences related to it. It only works with vocabulary items, as they are the only ones that have sentences.

Installation guide

Requirements are Node.js and npm installed. I'm using yarn for managing dependencies but you can use whatever system you want. Some technical knowledge is required as well.

1. Clone the repo.
2. Run yarn install or npm install.
3. Get your API V2 key from WaniKani's settings page.
4. Start a review session (we need this to get a cookie to call the internal API to retrieve sentences).
5. Do a wrong review, get the item details, go to the console > network > item detailes call > request > Cookie and get the _wanikanisession parameter and value.
6. Add your api token and wanikani session value into the user-data.js file.
7. Run node user-data.js et voila!

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