Note: This extension is a hobby project to integrate Kagi Translate and Anki—it isn’t officially affiliated with either project.
Browser extension to create rich Anki flashcards from Kagi Translate with audio, word insights, and alternative translations.
Translation Interface
Settings Page
Card Front
Card Back
Since discovering kagi translate, it has been a great resource for me in my language learning. The extra insights and ability to play audio in different voices has been incredibly helpful in understanding sentence structure.
- Rich Flashcards: Captures main translation, alternatives, and linguistic insights
- Dictionary Support: Create flashcards from Kagi Dictionary entries with definitions, examples, etymology, and related words
- Audio Support: Automatically downloads and embeds pronunciation audio
- Word-Level Insights: When you click underlined words in Kagi, those variations are added to the card
- Auto-tagging: Cards are tagged by language pair and quality level
- Configurable decks: Choose which decks your tranlsations get saved to and what tags they get
- Anki Desktop - Download from ankiweb.net
- AnkiConnect Add-on - Install in Anki (Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons → Code:
2055492159) - Restart Anki after installing AnkiConnect
This will auto-reload the extension when you make changes.
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Setup:
- Open Anki (must be running)
- Click the extension icon → Settings
- Select your preferred deck
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Create Translation Flashcards:
- Go to translate.kagi.com
- Enter a translation
- (Optional) Click underlined words to view insights - these will be captured!
- Click the "Save to Anki" button that's in the bottom toolbar where you can copy or download the translation
- The flashcard is created with audio and all captured data **Note - whatever voice you have selected for the audio at the time of saving will be downloaded
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Create Dictionary Flashcards:
- Go to translate.kagi.com/dictionary
- Look up a word
- Click the floating "Save to Anki" button in the bottom-right corner
- The flashcard includes definitions, examples, etymology, and related words
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Card Structure:
Translation Cards:
- Front: Source text
- Back:
- Translation with audio
- Translation insight (e.g., "Simple, colloquial question...")
- Alternative translations with explanations
- Word-level insights
- Metadata (language pair, quality, date)
Dictionary Cards:
- Front: Word with pronunciation
- Back:
- Primary meaning with part of speech
- Other meanings
- Usage notes
- Example sentences
- Etymology
- Related words/synonyms
The extension:
- Monitors Kagi Translate API requests
- Captures translation data, alternatives, and word insights
- Downloads audio from Kagi's TTS endpoint
- Formats everything into an html card
- Sends to Anki via AnkiConnect
**Note: the voice you have selected in Kagi Translate at the time of saving is what gets downloaded.
Since Kagi tranlsate doesn't currently have an api, we're doing some scraping to get the data we need.
This extension processes all data locally and only communicates with:
- Kagi Translate - to fetch translations and audio
- Your local Anki - to save flashcards
No data is collected, tracked, or sent to external servers. See PRIVACY.md for full details.
- Make sure Anki is open
- Verify AnkiConnect is installed (Tools → Add-ons)
- Try clicking "Test Connection" in the extension popup
- Check if audio is enabled in Settings
- Verify Kagi's audio playback works (click the speaker icon)
- Some translations may not have audio available
- Check that your selected deck exists in Anki
- Ensure Anki is running with AnkiConnect enabled
- The extension auto-creates the "Kagi Translation" model
Built with:
- TypeScript
- Vite + vite-plugin-web-extension
- AnkiConnect API
MIT License - feel free to use, modify, and distribute.
If you find this extension helpful, consider:
- Starring this repository
- Sharing feedback or reporting issues
Or support me directly:
Bitcoin
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- Kagi Translate for the excellent translation service
- AnkiConnect for the Anki API