Create new anki profile from python

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Hi all,
I want to create new anki profiles on need bases.
how can I create a new anki user profile from python code?

which command to use?

could you please help?

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Try:

mw.pm.create("My Profile")
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thank you. I am getting an error “mw” is not defined

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I added the following import also still

from aqt import mw

now the error is “cannot import name ‘mw’ from ‘aqt’”

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What’s your environment? And how are you installing the aqt package? The code only works in an add-on.

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My envionment is my laptop, developing a web application and I installed aqt from command line with "pip install " command.

My code is like below

from aqt import mw
mw.pm.create(“sdfff”)

the error I am getting is No module named ‘PyQt6.QtWebEngineCore’

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You probably have to create a ProfileManager object and avoid using mw then, since that doesn’t work outside add-ons. Check the source here: anki/qt/aqt/profiles.py at 312d396505a4806b76b74dfda6d276ec595e17ed · ankitects/anki · GitHub

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Thank you.
when I try that I am getting below error

"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘PyQt6.QtWebEngineCore’

I have PyQt6 already installed actually.

from aqt import *
ProfileManager.create(“fsdf”)

When I type the below line
“from PyQt6” and when I press Dot, I do not see QtWebEngineWidgets in the available list

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Does installing aqt using pip install aqt[qt6] help?

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Hi Adbo,
I tried that, but that did not help. Still the same error

thank you

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Sorry, I meant pip install aqt[qt6].

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great, that worked but now I have another issue
it expects 2 parameters

My code is below lines

import sys
from aqt import *
ProfileManager.create(“mY profile”)

now the error is “ProfileManager.create() missing 1 required positional argument: ‘name’”

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from aqt.profiles import ProfileManager

pm = ProfileManager(ProfileManager.get_created_base_folder(None))
pm.setupMeta()
pm.create("my profile")
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Thanks abdo,
I ran the command, but after running those commands, anki is not opening.

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I had to completely clean uninstall and reinstall Anki to get it back working.

So running the command, is broke anki with error

AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘execute’

But after complete uninstall/install, it seemed working, I will double check and let you know, thank you.

Regards
Ravindar

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Hi abdo, once the profile got created, the corresponding folder is not being created.
How can I make the folder be created when the profile is created?

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pm.profileFolder() command is not helping either because it only creates a empty folder but not the content inside.

I need the operation exactly when we do “switch profile” in anki, that will create the folder and it’s contents inside

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Use this to create the profile folder after running the previous code snippet:

from anki.collection import Collection
col = Collection('profile_name/collection.anki2')
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Thanks abdo,
unfortunately, That command throws error

anki.errors.DBError: DbError { info: “SqliteFailure(Error { code: CannotOpen, extended_code: 14 }, Some("unable to open database file: …myprofile7\\\\collection.anki2"))”, kind: Other }

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I missed the step of creating the folder. This should work:

import os

profile_path = os.path.join(pm.base, profile_name)
os.mkdir(profile_path)
col = Collection(os.path.join(profile_path, "collection.anki2"))
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Lovely, that worked pretty good, Thanks abdo

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