How to access note data before anki create cards

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I’m trying to create an add-on that automatically fill some fields in specific note types before anki start to create the cards.

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You can probably automatically fill in note fields in the Add screen using the editor_did_load_note and add_cards_did_change_note_type hooks. See anki/genhooks_gui.py at main · ankitects/anki · GitHub

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Cool, this solves one problem, but how do I access the data? I know it’s something.editor but can’t find it

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Here is a working example (using add_cards_did_init instead of editor_did_load_note because I found the latter can cause infinite loops here because of the editor.loadNoteKeepingFocus() call):

from anki.models import NoteType
from aqt import dialogs, gui_hooks
from aqt.addcards import AddCards
from aqt.editor import Editor


def is_target_notetype(notetype: NoteType) -> bool:
    return True

def fill_fields(editor: Editor, notetype: NoteType) -> None:
    if is_target_notetype(notetype):
        editor.note.fields[0] = "test"
        # editor.note["Front"] = "test"
        editor.loadNoteKeepingFocus()

def on_notetype_changed(old: NoteType, new: NoteType) -> None:
    addcards: AddCards = dialogs.open("AddCards")
    fill_fields(addcards.editor, new)


def on_add_cards_did_init(addcards: AddCards) -> None:
    fill_fields(addcards.editor, addcards.editor.note.note_type())

gui_hooks.add_cards_did_change_note_type.append(on_notetype_changed)
gui_hooks.add_cards_did_init.append(on_add_cards_did_init)
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Perfect! Thank you! I’m gonna test

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