With a friend, we are creating a program to transform any Youtube video into an Anki deck.
How it will work:
Basically you will just have to enter a youtube video link on our webpage and our converter will automatically create an Anki deck with each flashcard similar to the example shown here.
(The picture of the man is actually a short clip from the video we converted for this example. The clip matches the subtitles on the back of the flashcard.)
We are trying to make an improved version of add-ons like youtube2anki, movies2anki and subs2srs that are buggy or hard to set up (unfortunately).
We are building this program because for us it’s the fastest way to improve our listening comprehension.
But the thing is that it takes more time than what we thought to make a converter that works really well.
(The main difficulty is to ensure that the subtitles match each video extract perfectly)
That’s why we’d like to know to what extent other people are interested in our solution, to see if this project is worth the effort. To find that out, we created a waitlist system.
So if you’d like to be one of the first to use our converter, please sign up for our waitlist here : My Framer Site
It will really help us to determine how much effort we should put in the development of our converter.
Hi @Keks , from my experience, with the current plugins the installation is quite hard, you need to install an additional software like MVP to be able to read the videos.
Plus, since I did an OS update on my mac, Movies2anki doesn’t work anymore.
With our version, youtube videos are embed in the flashcards so there is no need to download any additional software to be able to read the videos.
We are also trying to improve the synchronicity between the video extracts and the subtitles because with youtube subtitles, the subtitles or the video extracts are often cut at the wrong moment.
Another point is that with manually generated subtitles, subtitles are often too long, we are trying to find a way to not display too long subtitles at once while preserving the meaning.
Do you use currently a plugin like movies2anki? Feel free to ask any question or share any feedback
That means the cards can only be reviewed when online, and are temporary unless there is a way to localize the video.
Which may or may not be a bad thing depending on how you review and delete such cards, how long a video you add stays available on YouTube or in your country, and if YouTube is willing to let you keep embedding it in Anki without showing commercials.
Even ignoring my local issues where YouTube is not fully accessible for political reasons, and geoblocking of videos with music by SME and WMG, and sudden deletion of videos by uploaders or moderator bots, many people have unstable Internet connection sometimes.
I guess those who only use AnkiWeb would not really be affected though.
OOO this looks cool, I actually made a project that does a similar thing using YouTube-dlp to download the videos and subtitles to view locally and at specific timestamps for YouTube links and for viewing the video locally
This isn’t self-promotion I was just hoping that my code might help with any issues you’re running into with making this Anki Addon!
