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WaniKani API And Third-Party Apps
#986

Thanks, I added the functionalty to the lessons and started seeing some problems, I will get the elements by position. Is there some easier way to get the content of the current question, like looking at $.jStorage in WK?

The page is also not playing so nicely with Tampermonkey, it doesn’t really detect page transitions, for example if you go Dashboard > Reviews by buttons the script is not loaded although the URL matches, it seems like the page transitions are done in a special way? If you reload on the reviews page the script is loaded as expected. [I’m using the script on any KW page now to avoid the problem.]

(Also, the classnames change depending on the same pattern (names I use for reviews work for lessons only after reload), I don’t really know what is going on there.)

#987

No easier way than getting the innerText via node position (or getElementById if I add some).
KW isn’t really set up for third-party manipulation.

Not sure how Tampermonkey determines page changes, if it’s hooking into page loads technically there’s only one when you enter the app - then routing is handled internally. window.location and browser history are updated on page changes though. You can just run across the kw domain like you are and check at the start of your script.

if (/lessons|reviews\/session$/.test(window.location.href)) { 
  /* do your stuff */ 
}

Hmm, actually you might have to listen to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/hashchange and/or https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/popstate
I would have thought tampermonkey has something available for you to use instead though - maybe check their docs about working with single page apps?

Ignore the classnames, they won’t help you :upside_down_face:
If you’re simply curious you can read medium.com/styled-components/how-styled-components-works-618a69970421

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#988

Thanks for the details! I got it to work and it seems to do the right thing. I just load on all pages now and check the URL. Maybe there is another way, but it works anyway :slight_smile:

It is also tricky to detect that a new question is visible, I use a MutationObserver, and having no identifiers makes it a bit challenging because the changes depend on the content as well. I don’t know how KW works exactly, maybe there is some simple event to listen to instead?

#989

I’ll just add some data-attributes to make life easier for you and mempo.

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#990

@acm2010 @Mempo

I’ve peppered in some data-attrs with the latest settings update.
data-ruby will appear for any words with furigana on top, which should only be in the answer area on quiz pages but best to limit to the data-answer wrapper anyway (and you can mutation observe that or the question).

var primaryQ = document.querySelector('[data-question-primary]').innerText;
var secondaryQ = document.querySelector('[data-question-secondary]').innerText;
var answers = [...document.querySelectorAll('[data-answer] [data-ruby]')].map(node => node.dataset.ruby.split(' '));

{
  "primaryQ": "To Meet",
  "secondaryQ": "To Encounter, To Meet Up With",
  "answers": [
    [
      "会う",
      "あう"
    ],
    [
      "遭う",
      "あう"
    ]
  ]
}

Hmm, this probably doesn’t include user-added answer synonyms.
Do you need access to those?
(WK meaning synonyms are already in the secondary question text).

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#991

Is there any method to skip lessons in KaniWani in it’s entirety? I go through the lessons in WK and would like to use KW just to do reviews EN>JP. I’m only level 6 on WK but I have 300+ lessons on KW I have to plow through before I can review them. I haven’t seen anything like this in the settings, but would sure save a lot of time.

#992

Even if lessons were removed, you would still have to wait 4h for the first SRS interval, so you wouldn’t be saving time. Lessons on KW work pretty much like the Quiz on WK.

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#993

It still feels like I have to ‘unlock’ everything. To me it doesn’t matter in what order I get my reviews, as long as I get everything I’ve had appear on WK so far.

I understand this isn’t a big deal, and I will just go through the lessons nonetheless. But I’d still prefer to not have to.

#994

Before the last KW update, you could only unlock items by level. Which means that the moment you’d learn them on WK, 12h later they’d be on your reviews on KW. But this was dangerous, because you had no control, so they would just pile up and become unbearable. Also, if you had skipped a level, the only way to do those items was to unlock an entire level, which means that you’d get 100+ vocab right away. It was a mess to deal with all that.

I agree that lessons on KW do feel a little weird, mainly since you jump right to the Quiz… but they’re there to prevent the above issues I mentioned :slight_smile:

#995

Not necessarily. You could (and still can, I believe) choose to only review items on KW that have reached a certain SRS level on WK. For example, you can choose to only review items on KW that you have burned on WK. I had mine set to Enlightened items only, previously, and that was great for me. So I still prefer not having to do lessons on KW, personally. I’d rather the reviews pop up once the items on WK have reached my preferred SRS level. :woman_shrugging:

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#996

Yeah, good point. I was just talking about the default settings xD

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#997

Hey!

This question probably gets asked a lot, but I haven’t really been able to find it, so I’ll just try it this way.
I just started using KaniWani, and I’m already at level 29. However, KaniWani starts at that level with lessons. I really want to improve my vocabulary starting at level 1, but this does not really seem to be an option. Will I ever get my lessons from level 28 or lower in KaniWani? Or is this impossible?

EDIT: I found it! It’s under Vocabulary.

Another small question, what are the small subway like sections in the info section of vocabulary?

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#998

Heya, I’m not a KW expert, but might be able to help.

Is the issue that you want to start at level 1 and work your way up? You can manually lock all of the later levels by going to ‘Vocabulary’ in the top-right and clicking on the lock symbols.

Given that you’re so advanced in WK, you might also want to consider setting up KW to unlock items only as you burn them in WK. That will probably give you a more reasonable number to start with, and you won’t have to control the pace of new additions manually.

Edit: oh drat, you just found it :joy:

Do you mean the pink and blue lines? They give you information on the pitch accent of the word.

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#999

Ah! Thanks for the bunch of information!
Also a very good tip about the burned items. I will however first just import the first five levels or something to make it more managable, before automatically doing burned items.

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#1000

No problem!

Hope you get it working well for you ^^

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#1001

I just started using KaniWani today. It is worrying but helpful to know my recall for so much vocab is so patchy, Thanks a ton KaniWani!

Edit: When I say “so much vocab”, I got 81% for accuracy after unlocking all 309 vocabs from WK in one hit, still a shock to see how poorly I fared though. :smiley:

#1002

The only way to go from here is 上.
がんばれ!

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#1003

I just started using it and I love KaniWani… most of the time.

But just now I got caught by this:

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Since 女子 and 女の子 are synonym, it should work in both cases in my opinion.

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#1004

As far as I know, they are wairing for API v2 to be final to implement synonyms.

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#1005

They kind of are and they kind of aren’t synonyms, the way that “girl” and “young lady” are different senses of the same thing. Japanese Stack Exchange has more.

The KaniWani Synonym Issue is a thing, but personally I’m not treating KW reviews the same as WK reviews. Synonym clashes I ignore/retry at first, but I make an effort to learn the difference over time. On the other hand, any honest typo (e.g. “yasimi” when I even say “yasumi” aloud as I’m typing it) is something I always ignore/retry - I gain nothing from blocking myself there.