iNaturalist to Ankivalenz

A tiny tool to export iNaturalist observations to Ankivalenz-formatted Markdown

I spent an hour tonight vibe coding a tiny CLI which exports iNaturalist observations to Ankivalenz-formatted Markdown, so I can easily turn my backyard observations into Anki cards.

To use it, install it via pip and run it, specifying your username:

$ pip install inaturalist-to-ankivalenz
$ inaturalist-to-ankivalenz --username vangberg

This generates an iNaturalist.md file which, if you run Ankivalenz on it, will create an Anki card for each observation, with the photo on the front and the species name on the back:

Happy exploring!