README.md

jisho-bot

jisho-bot offers basic Japanese-English dictionary over Telegram bot (@my_jisho_bot). It also supports exporting your lookup history into flashcards.

Installation

• python >= 3.5
• pip install -r requirements.txt

• mv jisho/config.py.example jisho/config.py
  # Put your Telegram bot token here
  vim jisho/config.py
  # Run the bot
  python jisho/jisho.py

Usage

Lookup a word

• Just message <word> to the bot, or use /search <word> in group chats.

Export flashcards

• Message /record to start recording.
• Lookup words.
• Message /record_stop to stop recording, a TSV file with definitions of the words will be sent to you.

Importing flashcards into Anki

Anki is a powerful, cross-platform flashcard app. You can import the TSV file that jisho-bot generated into Anki.

The exported TSV has three fields:

• {word} {reading} {definition}
• reading is usually Hiragana, or Katakana for loanwords (借用語).

An example of Anki flashcard:

Credits

jisho-bot uses jisho.org's amazing API for Japanese-English dictionary.