Simple Script to convert Kindle clippings to Anki import file format

kindle_anki.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

clippings = 'My Clippings.txt'
ankiFile = 'AnkiImport.txt'

def kindle_to_anki():
	try:
		clippingsFile = open(clippings, 'r')
	except IOError, e:
		print '*** file open error: ', e

	anki_import = open(ankiFile, 'w')

	kindle_notes = clippingsFile.readlines()

	anki_import.writelines(['"%s"\t"%s"\n\n' % (kindle_notes[i].strip(), kindle_notes[i+3].strip()) 
		for i in range(0, len(kindle_notes), 5)])

	anki_import.close()
	clippingsFile.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
	kindle_to_anki()

This is awesome. I was going to write some script (either in CoffeeScript or Ruby) to screen scrape the notes that you can get on the web at https://kindle.amazon.com/. I'll probably write something similar to what you've written, just for fun though. :)

Hi! I followed your instructions but it failed to create Anki file. I put your script and My Clippings into python folder. Message from Command Line:
C:\Python32>python kindle_anki.py
File "kindle_anki.py", line 9
except IOError,e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Hello michkles,

I run this script under Python 2.7 and it works. I didn't test it under Python 3.2 . The Syntax of Python 3 is different from Python 2. I think that's why it didn't work under Python 3.