anki-connect/actions/notes.md

Note Actions

• addNote

  Creates a note using the given deck and model, with the provided field values and tags. Returns the identifier of the created note created on success, and null on failure.

  AnkiConnect can download audio, video, and picture files and embed them in newly created notes. The corresponding audio, video, and picture note members are optional and can be omitted. If you choose to include any of them, they should contain a single object or an array of objects with mandatory url and filename fields. The skipHash field can be optionally provided to skip the inclusion of downloaded files with an MD5 hash that matches the provided value. This is useful for avoiding the saving of error pages and stub files. The fields member is a list of fields that should play audio or video, or show a picture when the card is displayed in Anki. The allowDuplicate member inside options group can be set to true to enable adding duplicate cards. Normally duplicate cards can not be added and trigger exception.

  The duplicateScope member inside options can be used to specify the scope for which duplicates are checked. A value of "deckName" will only check for duplicates in the target deck; any other value will check the entire collection. The duplicateScopeOptions object can be used to specify some additional settings. duplicateScopeOptions.deckName will specify which deck to use for checking duplicates in. If undefined or null, the target deck will be used. duplicateScopeOptions.checkChildren will change whether or not duplicate cards are checked in child decks; the default value is false.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "addNote",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "note": {
              "deckName": "Default",
              "modelName": "Basic",
              "fields": {
                  "Front": "front content",
                  "Back": "back content"
              },
              "options": {
                  "allowDuplicate": false,
                  "duplicateScope": "deck",
                  "duplicateScopeOptions": {
                      "deckName": "Default",
                      "checkChildren": false
                  }
              },
              "tags": [
                  "yomichan"
              ],
              "audio": [{
                  "url": "https://assets.languagepod101.com/dictionary/japanese/audiomp3.php?kanji=猫&kana=ねこ",
                  "filename": "yomichan_ねこ_猫.mp3",
                  "skipHash": "7e2c2f954ef6051373ba916f000168dc",
                  "fields": [
                      "Front"
                  ]
              }],
              "video": [{
                  "url": "https://cdn.videvo.net/videvo_files/video/free/2015-06/small_watermarked/Contador_Glam_preview.mp4",
                  "filename": "countdown.mp4",
                  "skipHash": "4117e8aab0d37534d9c8eac362388bbe",
                  "fields": [
                      "Back"
                  ]
              }],
              "picture": [{
                  "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/A_black_cat_named_Tilly.jpg/220px-A_black_cat_named_Tilly.jpg",
                  "filename": "black_cat.jpg",
                  "skipHash": "8d6e4646dfae812bf39651b59d7429ce",
                  "fields": [
                      "Back"
                  ]
              }]
          }
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": 1496198395707,
      "error": null
  }
  

• addNotes

  Creates multiple notes using the given deck and model, with the provided field values and tags. Returns an array of identifiers of the created notes (notes that could not be created will have a null identifier). Please see the documentation for addNote for an explanation of objects in the notes array.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "addNotes",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "notes": [
              {
                  "deckName": "Default",
                  "modelName": "Basic",
                  "fields": {
                      "Front": "front content",
                      "Back": "back content"
                  },
                  "tags": [
                      "yomichan"
                  ],
                  "audio": [{
                      "url": "https://assets.languagepod101.com/dictionary/japanese/audiomp3.php?kanji=猫&kana=ねこ",
                      "filename": "yomichan_ねこ_猫.mp3",
                      "skipHash": "7e2c2f954ef6051373ba916f000168dc",
                      "fields": [
                          "Front"
                      ]
                  }],
                  "video": [{
                      "url": "https://cdn.videvo.net/videvo_files/video/free/2015-06/small_watermarked/Contador_Glam_preview.mp4",
                      "filename": "countdown.mp4",
                      "skipHash": "4117e8aab0d37534d9c8eac362388bbe",
                      "fields": [
                          "Back"
                      ]
                  }],
                  "picture": [{
                      "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/A_black_cat_named_Tilly.jpg/220px-A_black_cat_named_Tilly.jpg",
                      "filename": "black_cat.jpg",
                      "skipHash": "8d6e4646dfae812bf39651b59d7429ce",
                      "fields": [
                          "Back"
                      ]
                  }]
              }
          ]
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": [1496198395707, null],
      "error": null
  }
  

• canAddNotes

  Accepts an array of objects which define parameters for candidate notes (see addNote) and returns an array of booleans indicating whether or not the parameters at the corresponding index could be used to create a new note.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "canAddNotes",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "notes": [
              {
                  "deckName": "Default",
                  "modelName": "Basic",
                  "fields": {
                      "Front": "front content",
                      "Back": "back content"
                  },
                  "tags": [
                      "yomichan"
                  ]
              }
          ]
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": [true],
      "error": null
  }
  

• updateNoteFields

  Modify the fields of an exist note. You can also include audio, video, or picture files which will be added to the note with an optional audio, video, or picture property. Please see the documentation for addNote for an explanation of objects in the audio, video, or picture array.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "updateNoteFields",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "note": {
              "id": 1514547547030,
              "fields": {
                  "Front": "new front content",
                  "Back": "new back content"
              },
              "audio": [{
                  "url": "https://assets.languagepod101.com/dictionary/japanese/audiomp3.php?kanji=猫&kana=ねこ",
                  "filename": "yomichan_ねこ_猫.mp3",
                  "skipHash": "7e2c2f954ef6051373ba916f000168dc",
                  "fields": [
                      "Front"
                  ]
              }]
          }
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": null,
      "error": null
  }
  

• addTags

  Adds tags to notes by note ID.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "addTags",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "notes": [1483959289817, 1483959291695],
          "tags": "european-languages"
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": null,
      "error": null
  }
  

• removeTags

  Remove tags from notes by note ID.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "removeTags",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "notes": [1483959289817, 1483959291695],
          "tags": "european-languages"
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": null,
      "error": null
  }
  

• getTags

  Gets the complete list of tags for the current user.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "getTags",
      "version": 6
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": ["european-languages", "idioms"],
      "error": null
  }
  

• findNotes

  Returns an array of note IDs for a given query. Same query syntax as guiBrowse.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "findNotes",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "query": "deck:current"
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": [1483959289817, 1483959291695],
      "error": null
  }
  

• notesInfo

  Returns a list of objects containing for each note ID the note fields, tags, note type and the cards belonging to the note.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "notesInfo",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "notes": [1502298033753]
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": [
          {
              "noteId":1502298033753,
              "modelName": "Basic",
              "tags":["tag","another_tag"],
              "fields": {
                  "Front": {"value": "front content", "order": 0},
                  "Back": {"value": "back content", "order": 1}
              }
          }
      ],
      "error": null
  }
  

• deleteNotes

  Deletes notes with the given ids. If a note has several cards associated with it, all associated cards will be deleted.

  Sample request:

  {
      "action": "deleteNotes",
      "version": 6,
      "params": {
          "notes": [1502298033753]
      }
  }
  

  Sample result:

  {
      "result": null,
      "error": null
  }