[New feature] Download course progress via a browser extension!

neoncube

@[deleted] Can you post a link to a course that contains a grammar level?

EDIT

Nvm, I can see the course's URL in your screenshot: https://app.memrise.com/community/course/2022170/german-1/

neoncube

@johnastsang To be honest, I'm a bit wary of making My Little Word Land topics in those communities, since I'm the My Little Word Land owner; I guess it feels like I'm advertising in Memrise's space XD

If you or another My Little Word Land user posts to those communities and lets everyone know about this extension, I think that would be fine, though 🙂 I'm just wary of doing it myself.

I'm still not 100% sure that Memrise is going to be okay with us having their official courses on My Little Word Land. If we get confirmation that they're okay with it, I might also try to make this extension work on the new official courses, since apparently they're just regroupings of the original vocabulary. I'm not sure how that would work out, though.

johnastsang

neoncube Understood. I've made a post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/memrise/comments/1bmf0bc/urgent_by_31_march_download_course_progress_of/.

neoncube

@johnastsang I've created version 1.4 of the extension, which skips grammar levels 🙂 It's already available for Firefox, but it'll probably be 24-36 hours before it's approved for Chrome.

johnastsang

neoncube Thanks! Obviously I can't open the ".memrise-course-progress" files generated. I wonder what information they contain. Specifically, do they distinguish between "ignored" words and words that have been "planted"?

neoncube

johnastsang Thanks! 🙂

The ".memrise-course-progress" files are text files, so you can open them with Notepad, if you'd like to see what's inside. (Right click the file, select "Open with", and select Notepad).

Indeed, I discovered yesterday that these files contain information about how long a word has been planted but don't contain information about which words have been ignored. I'd like to modify the script so that it also downloads that information, but if that takes 1-2 days to do, and then the update to the Chrome extension takes 1-2 more days to be approved by Google, we'd be getting pretty close to March 31st.

neoncube

The updated version of the Chrome plugin is now available, so you should now be able to download progress for courses that contain grammar levels 🙂

lyndongraffiti

Hello 🙂 Great plugin thank you! Is there any way to export progress from all courses?
I've learnt from 150 different courses, and would love to keep most of them.

neoncube

lyndongraffiti Thanks! 🙂 Sorry for the late reply.

I'd love to have a button that exports progress for all courses, but I'm afraid that this would overload the Memrise servers. By making it so that courses have to be exported individually, I'm hoping that people will only export courses when they're planning to move to My Little Word Land. If there were a button to export progress for all courses, I'm afraid that people would be tempted to export their progress multiple times, as a backup, which would put significant load on the Memrise servers.

Can you break up the work and export, say, 10-20 courses every day for a week or two?

pfote

neoncube

Hi neoncube and thank you for the plugin! It is a true relief to have ones progress saved some place.

But aren't the community courses only movig to another location after March 31st? Memrise CEO wrote that they themselves will try to find a method to download ones courses and only after that will they shut them down for good. Or did I miss some piece of news from Memrise?

johnastsang

pfote You are right. You didn't miss anything. Neoncube is only suggesting that we back up progress on Memrise official courses, as they will only live on the new interface but not the site for community courses.

pfote

johnastsang That makes sense, thank you for the explanation!

neoncube

Hi everyone 🙂

Just a heads up that importing progress is now available for all Memrise community courses: https://forum.mylittlewordland.com/d/150-new-feature-import-progress-from-memrise 🙂

Olaf.Rabbachin

neoncube

neoncube would put significant load on the Memrise servers.

Would it be possible to have the extension distribute the payload and keep track of what courses' progress has already been downloaded (i.e. by assigning a working directory in its settings)? Max out at 10 courses per day could also e an option.

FWIW, I wouldn't mind having the add-on run in the background (even over several consecutive days if need be) while I'm working.

Also, you could also distrubute a max. amount of requests via your own server by providing "slots" (say, 50 concurrent users downloading their progress, others would have to wait). Just a few ideas - I know there might be quite a bit of work involved. :-)

I also can't quite imagine how much load it would mean to query the progress across 112 courses in my case. Can it really be all that much?

DW7

Thanks NeonCube - but could you perhaps export progress for users who are present so far on this Forum - ie one user at a time?

neoncube

DW7 I wish I could! 🙂 Only the user has access to their own information, though, which is why this is a browser extension.