ankisyncd

Anki is a powerful open source flashcard application, which helps you quickly and easily memorize facts over the long term utilizing a spaced repetition algorithm. Anki's main form is a desktop application (for Windows, Linux and macOS) which can sync to a web version (AnkiWeb) and mobile versions for Android and iOS.

This is a personal Anki server, which you can sync against instead of AnkiWeb. It was originally developed to support the flashcard functionality on Bibliobird, a web application for language learning.

This version is a fork of jdoe0/ankisyncd. It supports Python 3 and Anki 2.1.

Installing

0. Install Anki. The currently supported version range is 2.1.1〜2.1.7. (Keep in mind this range only applies to the Anki used by the server, clients can be as old as 2.0.27 and still work.) Running the server with other versions might work as long as they're not 2.0.x, but things might break, so do it at your own risk. If for some reason you can't get the supported Anki version easily on your system, you can use anki-bundled from this repo:

    $ git submodule update --init
    $ cd anki-bundled
    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

   Keep in mind pyaudio, a dependency of Anki, requires Python 3 and PortAudio headers to be present before running pip. If you can't or don't want to install these, you can try patching Anki.

1. Install the dependencies:

    $ pip install webob
   

2. Modify ankisyncd.conf according to your needs

3. Create user:

    $ ./ankisyncctl.py adduser <username>
   

4. Run ankisyncd:

    $ python -m ankisyncd
   

Setting up Anki

Anki 2.1

Create a new directory in ~/Anki/addons21 (name it something like ankisyncd), create a file named __init__.py containing the code below and put it in ~/Anki/addons21/ankisyncd.

import anki.sync, anki.hooks, aqt

addr = "http://127.0.0.1:27701/" # put your server address here
anki.sync.SYNC_BASE = "%s" + addr
def resetHostNum():
    aqt.mw.pm.profile['hostNum'] = None
anki.hooks.addHook("profileLoaded", resetHostNum)

Anki 2.0

Create a file (name it something like ankisyncd.py) containing the code below and put it in ~/Anki/addons.

import anki.sync

addr = "http://127.0.0.1:27701/" # put your server address here
anki.sync.SYNC_BASE = addr
anki.sync.SYNC_MEDIA_BASE = addr + "msync/"

Running ankisyncd without pyaudio

ankisyncd doesn't use the audio recording feature of Anki, so if you don't want to install PortAudio, you can edit anki-bundled/anki/sound.py and anki-bundled/requirements.txt to exclude pyaudio:

ed version:

$ echo '/# Packaged commands/,$d;w' | tr ';' '\n' | ed anki/sound.py
$ echo '/^pyaudio/d;w' | tr ';' '\n' | ed requirements.txt

sed -i version:

$ sed -i '/# Packaged commands/,$d' anki/sound.py
$ sed -i '/^pyaudio/d' requirements.txt

Manual version: remove every line past "# Packaged commands" in anki/sound.py, remove every line starting with "pyaudio" in requirements.txt