Yomichan Forvo Server
0.01MB. Updated 2022-10-26.
Description
YOMICHAN FORVO SERVER FOR ANKI
Simple server to take advantage of Yomichan’s custom audio sources feature. Requires Anki Connect. It web scrapes Forvo’s search and word page to get a list of words.
NOTICE Forvo sometimes enables Cloudflare verification, meaning it tries to verify that a human is browsing their site instead of a program like this one. The add-on can't function when this happens, but please check https://github.com/jamesnicolas/yomichan-forvo-server/issues/13 if you want to track this issue.
Prerequisites:
Simple server to take advantage of Yomichan’s custom audio sources feature. Requires Anki Connect. It web scrapes Forvo’s search and word page to get a list of words.
NOTICE Forvo sometimes enables Cloudflare verification, meaning it tries to verify that a human is browsing their site instead of a program like this one. The add-on can't function when this happens, but please check https://github.com/jamesnicolas/yomichan-forvo-server/issues/13 if you want to track this issue.
Prerequisites:
- Anki
- Yomichan
- Anki Connect
- Copy the code and install like you would for any other Anki addon
- Restart Anki
- Allow network connections (required since this is a local server)
- In yomichan settings, go to Audio > Configure Audio Playback Sources > Custom Audio Source
- Select Type as JSON and set URL to http://localhost:8770/?term={term}&reading={reading}
- In your Audio Sources list below, make sure one of them is set to Custom
portPort that YomiChan will call. Default is 8770languageLanguage code to use in Forvo. Some examples arejafor Japanese orzhfor Mandarin Chinese. Defaultja. On the Forvo website, you can see what language code is in square brackets beside the language name on a pronunciation.preferred_usernamesA list of Forvo usernames. This will order the results on top based on this priority. If empty, results will show based on the Forvo website order. Default empty.show_genderShow the gender symbols (♂, ♀,) beside the username based on their gender. Defaulttrue.
- GitHub: https://github.com/jamesnicolas/yomichan-forvo-server
- Anki Add-on page: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/580654285
- handle case when gender isn’t available
- add support for preferred usernames
- fixed bug where it was using the raw audio from forvo, now uses the normalized audio from forvo
- added gender symbols to results
- support configuration where port, username order, language, and showing gender symbols are configurable
- update selectors for new forvo layout
- add Content-length header
- change timeout to 10 seconds
- fixed bug with empty reading/expression inputs returning unrelated words
- added basic retries/timeouts to deal with connection issues
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Supported Anki versions:
- 2.1.0 (Updated 2022-10-26)
To download this add-on, please copy and paste the following code into Anki 2.1:
580654285
If you were linked to this page from the internet, please open Anki on your computer, go to the Tools->Add-ons menu item, then click on Get Add-ons and paste in the code.
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Reviews
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Works perfectly, great way to add some more audio sources!
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Edit: updated to 2.1.35 and got it to work.
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Edited: It suddenly started working again. I hope it was just a temporary problem with Forvo.
Comment from author before post was edited
It looks like the addon is getting blocked by a CloudFlare verification. Working on a fix but this might be difficult
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Great add-on for improving availability of human voice clips (used with Yomichan).
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Everything works except for the audio being blank when I go into anki. What I mean is when I click "use audio for anki card" the audio in anki doesn't show up
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Very useful, gives word audio for a lot of words that Japanesepod101 doesn't have. Thanks for the quick fix
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Rally useful for adding audio to cards.
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UPDATE:
__init__.py fix from 20220716 worked
UPDATE:
__init__.py fix from 20220716 worked
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EDIT: replaced the contents of the py file with the text in the link provided by 07/16 and it works for now, thank you 07/16
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Hi, for those of you who have a problem with the plugin as of now (16.07.2022), here's a quick fix until the maintainer steps in to solve the problem. First, you have to find the location of the plugin directory. Inside the directory there is a __init__.py file. Replace it's content with the text from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kuator/yomichan-forvo-server/main/__init__.py
Now it should work again
Now it should work again
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Has been a great addon, but today it suddenly stopped working for some reason. Everything is updated to the latest version, except for Anki which is currently at 2.1.49
Edit: It suddenly works now, for some reason.
Edit: It suddenly works now, for some reason.
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Comment from author before post was edited
Sorry the addon isn't working for you. Can you give some examples of words that don't work? Also if you can give some more info such as operating system, Anki version, browser, it might make it easier to debug.
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I adjusted my local file to use play_args[5] and /audios/mp3/ because the /mp3/ version was a longer audio with dead noise at the end, making it a waste of time when I wanted more than one audio file to be played consecutively. However for some reason it errors for 不自由 even though the fifth arg should be fine
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Great plugin
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Very awesome, thanks for sharing :)
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When I try to use this, I cannot select any servers in yomichan.
page looks like this
{"type": "audioSourceList", "audioSources": []}
Update:
Yeah, I should haven given more context, sorry.
Set it up like described in Yomichan -> pasted the URL into Custom URL (JSON), but can't select any Server in Yomichan. It just shows Custom URL (JSON) in the dropdown menu where you select the sound.
Anki is open and runs with Anki Connect Version 6.
page looks like this
{"type": "audioSourceList", "audioSources": []}
Update:
Yeah, I should haven given more context, sorry.
Set it up like described in Yomichan -> pasted the URL into Custom URL (JSON), but can't select any Server in Yomichan. It just shows Custom URL (JSON) in the dropdown menu where you select the sound.
Anki is open and runs with Anki Connect Version 6.
Comment from author before post was edited
Are you going to http://localhost:8770/?expression={term}&reading={reading} in your browser directly? In Yomichan settings, go to Audio > Configure audio playback sources... > Add > Custom URL (JSON) and then set the URL there, not pasted into your browser
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thx
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How do i solve this
When loading 'Yomichan Forvo Server':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "aqt\addons.py", line 211, in loadAddons
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\580654285\__init__.py", line 209, in <module>
httpd = http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer(('localhost', 8770), ForvoHandler)
File "socketserver.py", line 452, in __init__
File "http\server.py", line 139, in server_bind
File "socket.py", line 756, in getfqdn
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x95 in position 0: invalid start byte
Edit: It happens when I open anki.
Current operating system is windows 11 but I also faced the problem while on windows 10.
Anki version is 2.1.35
I use chrome for my browser Version 96.0.4664.45 (Official Build) (64-bit)
When loading 'Yomichan Forvo Server':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "aqt\addons.py", line 211, in loadAddons
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\addons21\580654285\__init__.py", line 209, in <module>
httpd = http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer(('localhost', 8770), ForvoHandler)
File "socketserver.py", line 452, in __init__
File "http\server.py", line 139, in server_bind
File "socket.py", line 756, in getfqdn
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x95 in position 0: invalid start byte
Edit: It happens when I open anki.
Current operating system is windows 11 but I also faced the problem while on windows 10.
Anki version is 2.1.35
I use chrome for my browser Version 96.0.4664.45 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Comment from author before post was edited
Sorry you're having issues. Does this happen when you open anki or when you search up a word? Also can you give more context around operating system, Anki version, and browser? I might need more info to reproduce this bug.
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Lifesaver
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