Turn each card of an anki collection into txt files that can be searched using a desktop search engine like Recoll or Docfetcher etc.

Note: For a more powerful version, you can use my sophisticated RAG lib, wdoc, to parse anki notes as text: wdoc_parse_file --filetype "anki" --anki_profile "Main" --anki_deck "mydeck::subdeck1" --anki_notetype "my_notetype" --anki_template "<header>\n{header}\n</header>\n<body>\n{body}\n</body>\n<personal_notes>\n{more}\n</personal_notes>\n<tags>{tags}</tags>\n{image_ocr_alt}" --anki_tag_filter "a::tag::regex::.*something.*" --only_text

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Why did I make this? I wanted to make my anki databases searchable though Recoll or Docfetcher (those are desktop search engines).
What do you think of issues and contributions? They are more than welcome, even just for typos, don't hesitate to open an issue.
Will this change my collection? No, it makes a copy before hand and doesn't change a thing.
What version of python should I use? It has been tested on Python 3.9
I'd like to index my rss reader into recoll, is it possible? I created just that over there
How does it work? It finds your database, copies it inside /tmp (otherwise it might be locked), loads it into pandas, drops useless columns,finds the deck name and add it to each line, saves each card as a .txt file, zips all the txt files together, moves the zip in the desired folder, deletes the txt files and the temporary db.
Is it cross platform? Currently no, only Linux, and OSX could maybe work quite easily. It's on the todo list but don't be afraid to ask if you think you need this.

TODO:

use ankipandas
make it OS agnostic, so far it can only work on linux and possibly OSX

Usage:

python3 ./IndexableAnki.py -a ~/.local/share/Anki2 -p Myprofile -o ~/Documents/

usage: IndexableAnki.py [-h] [-a ANKI_PATH] [-p ANKI_PROFILE] [-o OUT_PATH] [-f {zip,directory}]
optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a ANKI_PATH, --anki ANKI_PATH
                        The path to the anki folder (ex: /home/USER/.local/share/Anki2/)
  -p ANKI_PROFILE, --profile ANKI_PROFILE
                        Name of the anki profile you want to make indexable (ex: Main)
  -o OUT_PATH, --output_dir OUT_PATH
                        Path to the directory where the indexable archive will be found
  -f {zip,directory}, --format {zip,directory}
                        Format of the output archive. Default: zip

How do cards look like afterwards?

Here's an example card :

ANKI EXPORT AS TXT
card id: 15359932XXXXX
tags: physics::something
deck: Some::TAG::Thingie
sfld: [content of the sort field]
flds: [content of all fields (with a little text processing though]