Export Kindle highlights to Anki

kindle2anki.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euox pipefail

# Go to https://read.amazon.com/notebook and export your highlights as JSON using https://readwise.io/bookcision
#
# Install http://ankiweb.net/ and the https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/index.html extension. Create a simple front-only card in anki, e.g.
# Card template: {{Front}}
# Styling:
# .card {
#   font-family: arial;
#   font-size: 20px;
#   text-align: center;
#   color: black;
#   background-color: white;
# }
#
# Install https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
#
# ./kindle2anki.sh <path/to/Kindle.Highlights_book.json> 'Books' '"tag1","tag2"'
# Tested on macOS Sierra 10.12.6, jq-1.5

PATH_TO_JSON_HIGHLIGHTS=$1
DECK_NAME=$2
TAGS=$3

cat $PATH_TO_JSON_HIGHLIGHTS | jq --indent 0 'def json2anki(xs): {"action":"addNotes","version":6,"params":{"notes":xs | map({"deckName":'"$DECK_NAME"',"modelName":"Front-only","fields":{"Front":.text | sub("(?<txt>.+),";.txt)},"tags":['"$TAGS"']})}}; json2anki(.highlights)' | xargs -0 -J % curl localhost:8765 -d '%'