Aglish

Read in: العربية

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Anki add-on for YouGlish; a YouTube search engine for language learning that helps you learn vocabulary in context.

YouGlish supports many languages and customizations of the interface. This add-on supports all languages supported by YouGlish and customizations.

Usage

The add-on integrates YouGlish with Anki through a custom filter you put in your card templates (e.g. {{aglish:Front}}).

Its usage is quite simple. Let's go through some examples:

• {{aglish lang=english accent=uk:Front}}
  This will show you video usage examples of the text in your Front field in British English.
• The video widget will be hidden behind a button by default. You can change the text shown on the button via the label option (no spaces allowed for now):
  {{aglish lang=english accent=uk label=youglish_english_uk:Front}}
• Alternatively, You can make the video play automatically by using the autoplay option:
  {{aglish lang=english accent=uk autoplay:Front}}
  Bear in mind that if you review a lot of cards quickly with autoplay enabled, you may get temporarily blocked or asked to solve a captcha. It's recommended to enable autoplay only when the main focus of your note type is the YouGlish videos, so that you won't go to the next card before watching a clip, or you will be just answering cards without thinking.
• You can combine Anki's cloze-only filter with the aglish filter to query only elided sections in cloze note types:
  {{aglish lang=english:cloze-only:Text}}
• The cloze-only filter only works on the back side, so this add-on provides a similar option (clozeonly) that works on both sides as a bonus:
  {{aglish lang=english clozeonly:Text}}
• The nocaps option is useful here to hide captions when watching clips containing elided text in the front side:
  {{aglish lang=english clozeonly nocaps:Text}}
• You can also change the widget theme using the theme option:
  {{aglish theme=dark:Text}}
  Available values are light, dark, and anki (theme used in Anki's interface, the default).
• The width and height of the widget can be customized using the width and height options:
  {{aglish lang=arabic width=600 height=500:Front}}
  The widget will expand to the window size if these options are not specified.
• You can enable "Restricted mode" to block potentially inappropriate content to be displayed (aka Kids Mode) by setting the "restrict" option, like this: {{aglish restrict:Front}}
• You can set hotkeys to trigger non-autoplayed widgets using the hotkey option:
  {{aglish hotkey=k:Front}}
  Only single keys work for now. (no combinations like Ctrl+K)
  You can alternatively set a similar hotkey config option under Tools > Add-ons > Config to trigger all non-autoplayed widgets without having to specify the hotkey in each filter.

All options have default values so they can be omitted; {{aglish:Front}} assumes English in all accents, showing a widget in Anki's theme with captions.

For a list of all supported languages and accents, see YouGlish documentation (scroll down to the documentation of the widget.fetch function).

Widget Components

You can toggle widget's components like the search bar via the config's components key (Tools > Add-ons > Config). See this page to experiment with available components. For example to hide the search bar, you can set search_box to false:

    "components": {
        "search_box": false,
        ...
        ...
    }

Styling

You can style the buttons by targeting the yg-btn CSS class in the styling section. E.g.

.yg-btn {
    opacity: 0.8;
    background-color: #c11615;
    color: white;
    border: 1px solid black;
    border-radius: 5px;
}

.yg-btn:hover {
    box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;
}

Demo

Watch this video for a demo of the add-on.

Experimental Support for YouGlish login

I've recently added experimental support to allow users to use their YouGlish account and premium subscription plans in the add-on. This is not tested. I appreciate if someone can test it with their premium plan and tell me about the result.

To use your YouGlish account with the add-on, go to Tools > Aglish > Log in to YouGlish. You'll be presented with the YouGlish login page. After logging in successfully, you can close the window. The add-on will now use your login information when showing the widget on cards.

References

YouGlish widget API:

• https://youglish.com/api/doc/widget
• https://youglish.com/api/doc/js-api

YouGlish & YouTube Terms of Service

You may want to read the Privacy & Terms of Service pages of both YouGlish and YouTube:

• https://youglish.com/terms
• https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
• https://policies.google.com/privacy

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for a list of changes.

Support & feature requests

Please post any questions, bug reports, or feature requests in the support page or the issue tracker.

If you want priority support for your feature/help request, I'm available for hire. You can get in touch from the aforementioned pages, via email or on Fiverr.

Support me

Consider supporting me if you like my work:

I'm also available for freelance add-on development on Fiverr: