Connect anki flash card and colordict together! (see my github project shouya/anki-helper for the newer version of it)

anki_helper.rb

#
# This script is a convenient tool that takes colordict history from stdin
# and filters all starred vocabularies, queries the dict for meaning, then outputs
# a file for anki to import.
#
# Requires:
#  * sdcv (stardict commandline version)
#
#
# This script is licensed by WTFPL.
# Copyright (c) Shou Ya, 2013
#


require 'ap'

STAR_PREFIX = "\xC2\xA1\xC3\x9A ".force_encoding('utf-8')

# deprecated
E2CDICT_NAME = "\xE6\x87\xB6\xE8\x9F\xB2\xE7\xB0" \
  "\xA1\xE6\x98\x8E\xE8\x8B\xB1\xE6" \
  "\xBC\xA2\xE8\xA9\x9E\xE5\x85\xB8".force_encoding('utf-8')
C2EDICT_NAME = 'MDBG Chinese-English' \
  ' dictionary (www.mdbg.net)'
  .force_encoding('utf-8')

DICT_DIR = "#{ENV['HOME']}/backup/usefuldict/"
PREVIOUS_OUT_PREFIX = 'prev_'

def get_prev
  Dir.glob(PREVIOUS_OUT_PREFIX + '*')
    .sort {|a,b| File.ctime(b) <=> File.ctime(a) }
    .map { |x| File.read(x).each_line
      .map(&:chomp)
      .to_a
      .reject {|x| x =~ /^\#/ or x =~ /^\s*$/} }
    .inject([], &:concat)
end

def read_words
  word_list = []
  $stdin.read.each_line do |l|
    l.chomp!
    next unless l.start_with? STAR_PREFIX
    l[0, STAR_PREFIX.length] = ''
    next unless l.ascii_only?
    word_list << l.strip
  end
  word_list
end

# The following function is from:
# http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/lib/shellwords.rb
# GPLv2 Licensed
def shellescape(str)
  # An empty argument will be skipped, so return empty quotes.
  return "''" if str.empty?

  str = str.dup

  # Process as a single byte sequence because not all shell
  # implementations are multibyte aware.
  str.gsub!(/([^A-Za-z0-9_\-.,:\/@\n])/, "\\\\\\1")

  # A LF cannot be escaped with a backslash because a backslash + LF
  # combo is regarded as line continuation and simply ignored.
  str.gsub!(/\n/, "'\n'")

  return str
end

def query_word(word, dict)
  puts word
  IO.popen(['sdcv', '--non-interactive',
            '--utf8-input', '--utf8-output',
            '--data-dir', DICT_DIR,
            '--use-dict', dict,
            shellescape(word)]) do |io|
=begin
    result = io.read
    result.tap{ |x| x.sub!(/.*?^\s*$\n/m, '')}.chomp!
    result.gsub!("\n", '</div><div>')
    result.sub!('</div>', '')
    result.reverse!.tap {|x| x.sub!('<div>'.reverse, '')}.reverse!
    result.gsub!("\t", '')
    result
=end
    io.read.each_line.drop(4)[0..-2].map(&:chomp).join("<br/>").gsub("\t", ' ')
  end
end

def produce_dict(word_list, trans_list, output_filename)
  File.open(output_filename, 'w') do |f|
    word_list.zip(trans_list).each do |(w,t)|
      f.puts(w + "\t" + t)
    end
  end
end

def determine_dict(word)
  if word.ascii_only?
    E2CDICT_NAME
  else
    C2EDICT_NAME
  end
end

def main
  output_filename = ARGV[0] || "out.txt"
  prev_word_list = get_prev
  new_word_list = read_words
  word_list = new_word_list - prev_word_list

  File.open(output_filename, 'w') do |f|
    word_count = word_list.length
    current = 1
    word_list.each do |word|
      puts "producing #{word} ... (%d/%d)" % [current, word_count]
      f.puts `ruby ./check_dict.rb "#{word}"`.chomp
      current += 1
    end
  end
#  trans_list = word_list.dup.map {|x| query_word(x, determine_dict(x)) }
#  produce_dict(word_list, trans_list, output_filename)

  backup_filename = PREVIOUS_OUT_PREFIX +
    Time.now.to_i.to_s + '-' + output_filename
  File.write(backup_filename,
             (new_word_list).map {|x| x + "\n"}.sort.join)
end


if $0 == __FILE__
  main
end

check_dict.rb

#

require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'ap'

DICTIONARY_URL = 'http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%s'

word = ARGV[0]

html = Nokogiri::HTML(open(DICTIONARY_URL % word.strip))

exp = html.css('.results_content').first
header = exp.css('.header').first
body = exp.css('.body').first


header.css('.pronset span[audio]').remove
header.css('.pronset .ipapr').remove
header.css('.pronset .questionmark').remove
header.css('.pronset .pron_toggle').remove

header.traverse do |ele|
  ele.remove_attribute('onmouseover')
  ele.remove_attribute('onmouseout')
  ele.remove_attribute('onclick')
end

body.css('#rltqns').remove
body.css('#topfcrds').remove
body.css('#fcrds').remove
body.css('.fwcrp').remove
body.css('.tail').remove

body.traverse do |ele|
  ele.remove_attribute('onmouseover')
  ele.remove_attribute('onmousedown')
  ele.remove_attribute('onmouseout')
  ele.remove_attribute('onclick')
end

print word.gsub("\n", '').gsub("\t", ' ')
print "\t"
print header.to_xml.gsub("\n", '').gsub("\t", ' ')
print "\t"

puts body.to_xml.gsub("\n", '').gsub("\t", ' ')

note_style.css

.header {
  text-align: center;
}
.card {
 font-family: "verdana";
 font-size: small;
}

.lunatext, .lunatext *, .lunatext a {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #333333;
line-height: 1.25em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.lunatext a {
text-decoration:underline;
}
.lunatext a:hover {
color:#0050BB;
}
.lunatext a:visited {
color:#663399;
}
.lunatext p {
margin:0 0 1em;
}
.lunatext ol {
margin-left:2em;
}
.lunatext ol ol {
margin-bottom:0;
}
.lunatext ul, .lunatext ol {
font-size:0.925em;
margin-bottom:1.5em;
padding-left:0.75em;
}
.lunatext ul li {
background:transparent url(http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/bullet_gray.gif) no-repeat scroll 0 0.5em;
list-style-image:none;
list-style-position:outside;
list-style-type:none;
margin-bottom:0.33em;
padding-left:8px;
}
.lunatext ul ul, .lunatext ul ol, .lunatext ol ul, .lunatext ol ol {
font-size:1em;
}
.lunatext blockquote {
background:#EFEFEF none repeat scroll 0 50%;
border:1px solid #DCDCDC;
margin:1em 0;
padding:1em;
text-align:left;
}
/* END OF NONE NEED STUFF FOR LUNA */
/* luna HTML project styles */
div.luna-Ent, div.luna-Pronkey {
background-color: #FFF;
color: #333333;
display: block;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 1em;
padding-bottom:5px;
}
div.dndata {
padding-left: 37px;
}
.tail, .body {
margin-bottom: 0em;
margin-left: 0em;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 0em;
color: #333333;
}
.tail {
padding-top: 20px;
}
h2.me {
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
display: inline;
color: #000000;
}
.luna-Img {
vertical-align: text-top;
}
.luna-Ent a:link, .luna-Pronkey a:link, .luna-Ent a:visited, .luna-Pronkey a:visited, .x {
color: #333333;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.luna-Ent a:hover, .luna-Pronkey a:hover {
color: #0055BB;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.pg {
font-weight: bold;
color: #333333;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
display: inline;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 13px;
padding-right: 3px;
}
.rom-inline {
color: #333333;
display: inline;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
}
.labset {
color: #333333;
display: inline;
font-style: normal;
}
.secondary-bf {
font-size: 13px;
color: #333333;
display: inline;
font-weight: bold;
}
.body .rom-inline {
display: inline;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
}
.body .pg {
color: #333333;
font-style: italic;
}
.body .sectionlabel {
color: #333333;
font-style: italic;
display: block;
padding-top: 15px;
}
.body .secondary-bf {
color: #333333
}
table.luna-Ent {
font-size: 13px;
background-color: #FFF;
color: #333333;
display: block;
padding-bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
}
table.luna-Ent td {
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
}
table.luna-Ent td.dn {
width: 1.5em;
}
table.luna-Ent td span.labset {
color: #333333
}
td span.secondary-bf {
color: #333333
}
.show_ipapr .pron {
font-size: 1.1em;
color: #333333;
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
display: inline;
}
.show_rhpr .pron {
font-size: 13px;
color: #333333;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
display: inline;
}
.show_spellpr .pron {
font-size: 13px;
color: #333333;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
display: inline;
}
.pronlink {
font-size: 13px;
color: #333333;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.pronset {
color: #333333;
}
.pronset iframe{
position : relative;
top: 4px;
left: 5px;
}
.pronset div{
padding-bottom: 4px;
}
.me {
display: inline;
font-weight: bold;
}
.homno {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:10px;
display: inline;
color: #333333;
vertical-align: top;
}
.dnindex {
font-weight: bold;
color: #7B7B7B;
display:block;
float:left;
width:28px;
}
.luna-Nested {
position:relative;
}
.luna-Nested .dndata {
padding-left: 30px;
}
.luna-Nested span {
_left:-28px;
}
.dn {
color: #333333;
display: inline;
}
.ital-inline {
display: inline;
font-style: italic;
font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /*georgia for example sent. */
}
.sc {
display: inline;
font-variant: small-caps;
}
.tail .rom-inline {
color: #333333;
display: inline;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
}
.prondelim {
color: #333333;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.sectionLabel {
font-weight: bold;
color: #333333;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
display: inline;
font-style: italic;
}
.shape {
display: inline;
/* font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;*/
}
sub {
position: relative;
}
table.luna-Pronkey {
display: block;
width: 100%;
}
table.luna-Pronkey td {
white-space: nowrap;
}
table.luna-Pronkey td.pr {
width: 3.5em;
}
caption.luna-Pronkey {
display: inline;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: left;
}
div.luna-Pronkey .info {
display: block;
font-size: .9em;
}
.indefinitionword {
font-size: 13px;
color: #000000;
display: inline;
font-weight: bold;
}
span.x sup {
font-size: .75em;
}
.ety .ital-inline {
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
hr.ety {
display: none;
}
.boldface {
font-weight: 700;
}
.lightface {
font-weight: 100;
}

@Luxor This version could currently work without sdcv support :)

Firstly you have to export the query history in colordict to a file, in anyway you like. The way I use is to share via email to my mailbox, and then copy them to a file on my pc.

You put the two ruby scripts in a same directory. And then:

$ cat /tmp/colordict-export-history.txt | ruby ./anki_helper.rb

It will produced an out.txt and a prev_xxxx.txt. You can leave the latter one aside since when the next time you import, it will automatically neglect the imported items specified in that file. And now you can take the out.txt for anki to import it. It is separated in three fields, each represent the original word, the front(including syllables and pronunciation) and the back respectively with tab character. In addition you might need a new note type for this kind of flashcards, since it needs extra stylesheets, which I've been posted as 'note_style.css'.

Have fun :)