Image Search

AnkiWeb addon 885589449

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Adds editor buttons that scrape Google Images from the first field's search term and insert or cycle images in the second field, with proxy and HTTPS-bypass settings.
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Votes
29 (πŸ‘ 12 Β· πŸ‘Ž 17)
Updated
2018-01-23
Anki versions
unknown
License
GPL-2.0 (from the license file in the package)
Virus scan
No ClamAV match A match does not prove malware. No match does not prove that the code is safe.
Languages
Python, Makefile, Shell
Description language
en

Maintenance

abandoned

  • Last update or commit: 2018-01-23 (3204 days before the snapshot).
  • Commits in the last year: 0.
  • Issues: 5 open, 1 closed.
  • Pull requests: 0 open, 0 merged.
  • Median first response: 218 hours (2 answered issues and pull requests).
  • Forks that may still be maintained: "Anki Image Search v2 Addon" (432495333).

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2.1.0–2018-01-23
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VersionWorks on Anki 26.09.3MaintenanceLast activity VotesApprovalGitHub starsNotes
Image Search this addon original unknown abandoned 23 Jan 2018 πŸ‘ 12 Β· πŸ‘Ž 17 26% 10
↳ Anki Image Search v2 Addon likely abandoned 21 Aug 2022 πŸ‘ 11 Β· πŸ‘Ž 5 44% 1
↳ Image Search v3 (AI-detected; may be wrong) likely active 16 Oct 2026 πŸ‘ 2 Β· πŸ‘Ž 1 21% 2

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Description

This addon scrapes images from Google search results and inserts it into your card. On the card editor (from either the "Add" or "Browse" dialog), there are three buttons added right before the More button on the upper right portion of the editor: Search Image, Previous Image and Next Image. Basically just type in your search term in the first field of the card, and use those buttons. The image will be inserted/updated in the second field. If you are unfortunate enough to, say, live in China and have no access to Google, go to Tools -> Image Search -> Network Config, and set your proxy settings. Note that this is a global setting that will affect all calls to urlopen(), even if they are from Anki itself or other Anki plugins, although if you have restricted Internet access you probably need it anyway. (TBH this should be an entirely separate plugin, or just be integrated into Anki itself, but whatever). If you are encountering certificate errors when retrieving images, and you are on a trusted network, go to Tools -> Image Search -> Network Config, and check the box "Bypass HTTPS Verification". You can track the project here.

README

Anki Image Search

Basically scraps Google Images and places them on your card. This only works for Anki 2.1.

You should follow the instructions here for installation.

How

On the card editor (from either the "Add" or "Browse" dialog), there are three buttons added right before the More button on the upper right portion of the editor: Search Image, Previous Image and Next Image.

Buttons on top left

Basically just type in your search term in the first field of the card, and use those buttons. The image will be inserted/updated in the second field.

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If you are unfortunate enough to, say, live in China and have no access to Google, go to Tools -> Image Search -> Network Config, and set your proxy settings. Note that this is a global setting that will affect all calls to urlopen(), even if they are from Anki itself or other Anki plugins, although if you have restricted Internet access you probably need it anyway. (TBH this should be an entirely separate plugin, or just be integrated into Anki itself, but whatever).

If you are encountering certificate errors when retrieving images, and you are on a trusted network, go to Tools -> Image Search -> Network Config, and check the box "Bypass HTTPS Verification".

You can track the project here.

License

None of this would be possible without Google Images. Even though technically I'm scrapping Google Images, here's the Powered by Google logo that's used in the Search API:

Powered by Google

I obviously own nothing from Google.

The icons are provided by Open Iconic. Open Iconic is licensed under MIT.

This project is under GPLv2.

Why

As with every project that I work on my own, it's something that I really want, and for whatever reason no one else wrote it. So now I have to do it myself and go through the pain of using Python. :frowning: I would've gladly chosen ML, even Haskell, or even other slightly less crappy language like C, but FFI through Python is a ridiculous pain and I really tried, (and Anki places restrictions on packages involved), so when I wrote this I just close my eyes and pretend I'm a compiler for a less shitty language. This is a 1 1/2 week project, so it's buggy, and it's Python, but works fine for me so far, so whatever.

The main reason I want it is that I'm trying really hard to learn Japanese right now, and I know just how important it is to be able to point at pictures and recall words without going through a translation phase. I got annoyed doing it by hand at around 20 cards.