md2anki

Convert markdown documents to anki flashcards with this simple python script.

Powered by python-markdown2 and genanki.

Features

• Include images
• Markdown image size specifiers
• Tables
• All the basic markdown syntax
• Style flashcards with CSS

Usage

python md2anki.py .\example\example.md

Other:

usage: md2anki.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-s STYLE] INPUT

Convert markdown to anki deck.

positional arguments:
  INPUT                 Input *.md path.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output *.apkg path.
  -s STYLE, --style STYLE
                        CSS card style path.
  -q, --questions       Create *_questions.md with stripped answers.
  -w, --web             Create *.html document.

Dependencies

md2anki depends on markdown2 and genanki.

pip install genanki
pip install markdown2

Example

Turn this:

# Deck name

## Sub deck 1

### A card question?

An answer!

### Another card question?

Another answer... _With an image!_

![](img/image.png)

## Sub deck 2

### Can you use tables?

- Yes!

| This is | a  | table    |
|---------|----|----------|
| This    | is | great!   |
| This    | is | amazing! |
| This    | is | ok!      |

Into this:

More examples in the example/ directory of this repository.

CSS styling.

CSS can be added using the -s PATH/TO/STYLE.css parameter. CSS with the filename style.css in the same folder as the markdown file will be applied automatically.

Most markdown CSS should work as expected. For example this github markdown.

Notes

I created this for personal use, the code is quite messy but works well. Only tested under windows. Feel free to send me PRs or questions.