Basic Usage - ssricardo/anki-web-browser GitHub Wiki
The functions of this add-on are accessed through the context menu (either right click on mouse or right menu key on the keyboard) or using shortcuts.
Search selected text
While studying or editing a given card:
- Select a word or sentence
- Right click (or use the shortcut)
- Search on Web
- Select the desired provider
Then a new window with the web browser will be opened, if it isn't opened yet.
Search without selection (No selection option)
From version 3.0+
If no text is selected for the search, the user may selected other option (following):
- Type in the term to look up
- Use the content of one of the fields on current card
- Do nothing (just expect a text selected)
With the 2nd and 3rd options, it's possible to memorize the selected option. This way, the user won't be prompted about no selection option anymore, in the current Anki session.
Query a new word with same provider
If the user have already used this addon in the current Anki session, this action opens up the web browser without asking to choose a provider.
It's going to use the same as the last query.
Conversely, if it's the first query in the current session, the menu will be shown.
Get data directly from the web browser
When using this addon while adding or editing a note, it's possible to get text and images from the opened website to the card.
After looking something up with the previous steps (above), on the web browser:
- Select some text and then right click OR just right click over an image
- Assign to field
- A list with the fields from the source card is shown
- Choose one of them
This way, the text or image will be appended to the selected field.
Yes, it also works for images (only in the edit mode)! (It's downloaded and imported into the collection automatically)
This feature makes it really simple and fast to get some information from the Internet and build or improve your Anki's collection.
This feature works only using the embedded web browser. If you use the system browser, it's not possible to get data automatically
Limitation
The image downloading supports only URLs finished with image suffix (like png, jpg)... This add-on uses Anki engine to perform that action, and Anki imposes that restriction.
More
Check out other functions, in the page