Tools to interact with Memrise

$ mkvirtualenv -p python2.7 scrapy
(scrapy)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Program to crawl the memrise web application and get useful statistics for your pinned courses, like how many reviews will come in the day, etc.

(scrapy)$ cd memrise/
(scrapy)$ echo -e "USER=YOUR_USERNAME\nPASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD" > local_settings.py
(scrapy)$ scrapy crawl memrise -e memrise_items.json

Do whatever you want with the data in the json file. For example, the get_stats.py script will list the number of reviews to come:

I wrote a shell command to update the json file and return the stats. Make sure ~/bin/ is in your PATH, then:

$ ln -s /path/to/memrise_stats.sh ~/bin/memrise_stats
$ memrise_stats

This will also create a file /tmp/memrise_global_stats.json

I also added a daily service to update the json files.

$ for f in {memrise.service,memrise.timer};
> do sudo ln -s $file /etc/systemd/user/; done
$ systemctl --user list-timers
NEXT                         LEFT     LAST PASSED UNIT          ACTIVATES
Tue 2014-08-26 00:00:00 JST  12h left n/a  n/a    memrise.timer memrise.service

Find the ID of the course you want to download. For example, http://www.memrise.com/course/556/jlpt-n2-vocab-9/ has ID 556 as indicated in the url. Then run the script:

$ ./download_course.py -c 556