Arch Chinese Scraper

Pull character and word information from an archchinese webpage into a format suitable for use with Anki.
What is Arch Chinese Scraper?
Arch Chinese Scraper is a Chrome extension that allows Chinese language learners to efficiently create Anki decks. It enables scraping character and word information from Arch Chinese, making character and word learning more efficient.

Extension stats

Users: 43 ▲ 2
Version: 0.0.1 (Last updated: 2021-10-06)
Creation date: 2019-01-21
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • declarativeContent
Size: 5.44K

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Extension summary

This is an extension to allow Chinese language learners to more efficiently create Anki decks, or to otherwise to make their character and word learning more efficient. When at a character page in archchinese.com, this extension enables the user to scrape the character and words on the page, which are copied to the system clipboard in a format suitable for importing into Anki.

Both the traditional and simplified characters are copied when both are available, but please note that when there is not a one-to-one correspondence between traditional and simplified character, as with 复/復/複, you must manually add/edit the character definitions.

[https://gist.github.com/Khouderchah-Alex/ebfc75ddbac177d0aef189da19b18920](This script) can be used such that words will only be added to a file when all of the characters are known:

The source code for this extension is available at: https://github.com/Khouderchah-Alex/ArchChinese-Scraper

Extension safety

Risk impact

Arch Chinese Scraper does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Arch Chinese Scraper has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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