With the recent expiration of the V1 API, a friend and I recently developed this Chrome extension which highlights the kanjis you know from Wani Kani on any given web page. There were a few extensions which did this before, but they no longer work due to Wani Kani sun setting their version 1 API.
You simply input your API v2 Token in, and you are ready to go. We provided a keyboard shortcut, an option to enable it on every page load, and a button on the extension’s popup so that you can enable it however and whenever you want.
This looks really cool and I’d love to use it, but it doesn’t seem to be working on any pages I try it on I’ve input the API key and it looks as if it should be working, but nothing is popping up when I click on the Kanify Me button (which is very cute btw). I tried it on a few NHK Easy articles but to no avail. ???
I’m using Chrome with a few other extensions, AdBlock and TamperMonkey, if that has any relevance.
That’s really strange. Did you generate a new V.2. Personal Access token for Kanify specifically? Make sure you go to https://www.wanikani.com/settings/personal_access_tokens and then click “Generate a new token” and let me know if you have any more problems. You also may have to refresh any pages that you had open.
I did, and I just went back and made another just in case I messed up the access settings for that token - but that didn’t fix it (even with restarting the browser + clearing caches/cookies/etc). It might be a system issue on my end or something similar, so I’ll try it on my home computer when I’m off work and let you know how that goes.
This is neat! I’d actually love if it also highlighted kanji I don’t know in a different colour so that I can distinguish it easily from the sea of kana.
hmmm. I’m imagining a gradient related to how far away it is on WK, going from light blue (taught within the next 5 levels) to dark purple (more than 20?30? levels away), and red highlighting for kanji that aren’t taught on WK. @MrMonkey006 Sounds like a pretty cool feature to me! How difficult would it be to implement this?
As of this moment it simply highlights the kanjis you know. We may add in a toggle to highlight the vocab you know, although that is trickier to implement and may take a little while since verbs endings tend to change based on the conjugation.
Me too. I generated a new token specifically for Kanify and tried it out on the NHK Easy articles but still didn’t get anything coming up. I’m using Chrome Version 85.0.4183.83 on a Macbook Air.
This is really interesting, it seems really high level users are having trouble activating the extension. If any high level users would like to share their API token with me at kanifyext@gmail.com, I could help figure this out for other users
I’ve input the API key and it looks as if it should be working, but nothing is popping up when I click on the Kanify Me button (which is very cute btw). I tried it on a few NHK Easy articles but to no avail. ???
