Spanish-Spanish Definition, Examples, and Conjugations Generator [Official Support Thread]

Anki Add-ons
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This addon allows to look for and add Spanish definition(s) for a word as front side with the word, examples and conjugations if it’s a verb on the backside.

Instructions:
Type the word in the front side and either click on the DLE icon or press the “ctrl+alt+e”(configurable) hotkey.

Internally this uses pyrae(pyrae · PyPI) package to fetch the definition from dle.rae.es.

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Hi! Im really interested in your addon, but it doesn’t seem to work.

Anki 25.02.1 (234fa0c2) (ao)
Python 3.9.18 Qt 6.6.2 PyQt 6.6.1
Platform: Windows-10-10.0.19041

2025-08-24 20:39:59,571 - ERROR - dle.search_by_url - Unexpected error. strCould not process lema from the given HTML.
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Hi!

Thank you for your interest.

I have not worked on this one for a while now and don’t actually use it anymore as I found the definitions from DLE too complicated to be viable for flash cards.

I think it’s the best I remove this add-on to save people time trying it out.

From the error message you posted (thanks for that!) I think it looks like the issue is in the library I was using to read from DLE, my guess is DLE changed it’s API and I’d need to use a different library or roll out my own because pyrae seems to not have been updated since 2021…

My current approach is actually using perplexity with a custom prompt to generate the flash cards.
I do this in bulk, i.e. I write down all the new words in a file during a lesson and then feed the whole list into the chat window, it gives me back a list of CSV rows which I then import in Anki with it’s CSV importer.
I am OK with this “manual” process, I don’t know if writing another add-on would be worth it…

For what it’s worth here is the prompt I use, I just append the list of words at the end:

Para las siguientes palabras escribe la definición corta, la palabra, traducion en ingles y un ejemplo corto en espanol. El formato:

¨definicion¨;¨palabra en minuscules¨;¨ejemplo en espanol, traduccion en ingles¨



Palabras:
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Thank you. I really appreciate it.