This is the recommended method for most users. is a Python library that lets you programmatically create Anki decks, notes and packages with a clean, object‑oriented API. You write a Python script that parses your XML (using xml.etree.ElementTree , lxml or pandas ) and then creates genanki.Note and genanki.Deck objects before writing everything to an .apkg file.
If your XML is a custom data dump, the most reliable method is to extract the data into a CSV or TXT Extract Data xml to apkg
Map your CSV columns to the corresponding Anki fields (e.g., Field 1 -> Front, Field 2 -> Back). This is the recommended method for most users
Depending on your technical comfort and the complexity of your XML, there are several ways to achieve an XML → APKG conversion. If your XML is a custom data dump,
import genanki import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
: APKG files bundle images and audio directly with text data.