This is a simple command-line clone of EPWing2Anki (http://sourceforge.net/projects/epwing2anki/). This program takes a text file kanji words and gets example sentences for each from wwwjic (specifically, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi as documented at http://www.edrdg.org/wwwjdic/wwwjdicinf.html#backdoor_tag), and creates a new output file with samples included.
A sample run:
Given a tab-delimited file with Kanji in the first field, pronunciation the second field, and a definition in the third field, the following will generated a file with a sample Japanese sentence and its English equivalent in the fourth and fifth fields.
$ ruby main.rb test/test_rikaikun.txt -n 1
... [snip, some status reporting] ...
Generating /wwwjdic_examples/test/test_rikaikun_output_20150329_223014.txt
Notes:
- the output file is generated in the same folder as its input file
- if a sentence isn't found, "?" is placed in these fields so that Anki import doesn't complain about irregular field counts
Other than setting up Ruby, and perhaps making main.rb executable, there shouldn't be anything to set up. Just put main.rb in a folder and run it from the command line.
This has been written and tested on a Mac (ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08 revision 45883) [universal.x86_64-darwin13]). It does not use any additional Ruby Gems.
As shown in the header of main.rb, the program takes the input file as an argument, and a list of options. The options can be seen by running ruby main.rb --help.
There are some sample files provided in the "test" subdirectory.
Note that program makes a web call to the online dictionary API for every word. There is currently no support for local dictionaries.