Anki Eudic

Your Eudic word list, ready to review in Anki.

Anki Eudic takes the unfamiliar words you saved in Eudic and turns them into an Anki deck, with Longman definitions, examples and British and American pronunciation.

uv tool install anki-eudic

Then run anki-eudic in your terminal. Needs Python 3.10 or newer.

indefinitely

BrE/ɪnˈdefɪnətli/ AmE/ɪnˈdefənətli/

Click to show the answer

A note as it appears in Anki. Flip it, then click a definition to reveal the Chinese.

From word list to deck

Everything happens in one keyboard-driven terminal window. There’s no Anki add-on to install, and Anki doesn’t need to be running.

  1. Connect to Eudic

    Paste the token from Eudic’s Open API page. It’s checked with Eudic first, then kept in your system keychain. It never goes into a file.

    The Connect to Eudic dialog with a masked token field and Save & connect button.

  2. Pick a study list

    Your lists are in the sidebar. Open one to see every word with its phonetic and Eudic explanation. Press / to filter.

    The main screen: study lists on the left, a table of 3553 words with phonetics and explanations, and a detail pane.

  3. Export and import

    Press e, choose a deck name and file, and export. Then open the .apkg in Anki with File → Import.

    The export dialog showing deck name, output file, LDOCE5++ dictionary path and a progress bar.

What you get

Cards built to help you remember the word, not just its translation.

Longman content and audio
With a local LDOCE5++ dictionary, each card gets numbered senses, examples, collocations, word origin, and British and American recordings.
English first, Chinese on demand
Definitions are shown in English. Click one to reveal the Chinese translation when you need it.
Re-export without losing progress
Export the same list again after adding words. Existing cards update in place and keep their review history; new words are added.
Your context, kept
The sentence you saved the word from, the date you added it and its star rating in Eudic all come along to the card.
Works with any list size
Every page of the list is downloaded and duplicates are removed, whether it holds twenty words or several thousand.
Token stays private
Stored only in macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Locker or Secret Service. You can also use it for one session without saving it.

Get started

Install from PyPI with uv or pipx, then launch it. You’ll be asked for your Eudic token the first time.

For Longman content, point the export dialog at your LDOCE5++ .mdx file. On macOS it’s found automatically in Eudic’s dictionary folder.

# install
uv tool install anki-eudic
# or
pipx install anki-eudic

# run
anki-eudic