hwgilbert16
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9 months ago The issue you encounters come from the fact that Scholarsome uses semicolons to discriminate between each line of a Quizlet set, denoting a new card.
Issue with Quizlet is that, as far as I can tell, they seem to actively interfere with abilities that allow users to export their sets to other platforms. The initial plan for the import feature was to scrape the HTML of the page, but they block non-humans from viewing their site. I'm stuck with using their export to text feature, which is only accessible to the owner of a set, and it exports to an unwieldy large text box if the set is large enough, whereas Anki exporting puts the cards in a neat text file. You also loose any pictures in the set when exporting from Quizlet.
I'll add this as a future feature, as you said, really the best way to import sets from Quizlet is to let the user pick the characters that discriminate between each side of the card and between each card. To keep it simple, I just hardcoded the semicolon and tab separator to keep things simple, otherwise the docs will have to explain to novice users how the import works and could turn people away.
If the set is too large to reasonably hand-import, besides removing the semicolons, you can try importing the Quizlet set to Anki and then exporting it from Anki as a .apkg, then importing that into Scholarsome, using a plugin (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/538351043).
RannyBergamotte
If trying to import a Quizlet set that has semicolons in the term or definition, it yields a set not formatted correctly error. I don't know if there is a way to detect when a term or definition stops or ends, but I guess, the solution is to just go through the set and remove semicolons.
I guess also maybe setting custom breaks could work too, or maybe even let the user decide what the break character is, so they can assign it some obscure Unicode character that's never getting used?