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I'm not diagnosed, but social situations can be a challenge for me. I easily get stressed and have trouble keeping eye contact. I am also very bad at remembering names, and connecting a face to the name. I might have a light case of face blindness, who knows. But surely, this problem can be solved with software!
Most of my friends are on facebook. It's definitely the largest database of people I know which has attached photos. I go to my facebook friends list, and make sure to scroll to the bottom to load all friends. I then ask ChatGPT to write a script for downloading all the images, using the name as filename. Both ChatGPT O1 and O3 Mini has trouble with this, and at most successfully downloaded 10 images. As a workaround I used an image downloader extension to download all the images on the page, and then prompted O1 with the following:
The attached file contains an excerpt from the facebook friends page html source.
I have downloaded all images on this page using an extension. Please write a Python script which takes the full html as input, and renames the image files from their original filenames to the name of the person (for example "Carl Öst Wilkens.jpg").
An example of a filename I have downloaded is "33746150_10156326100658497_5259182196912029696_n.jpg"
This worked great. I now cleared out any photos where the face is not clearly visible. I also had to remove photos where the person doesn't look like they do in reality, and people wearing sunglasses. This might take a while if you have a lot of friends.
I have no knowledge of the structure Anki requires for importing, but ChatGPT most definitely does.
I have a folder of jpg photos with names of the person which appears in them. I want to import these to Anki, in a way where the answer is the name of the person, and the question is the image. Please write a python script which generates the structure necessary for importing into Anki.
The result is a script which generates a friends.apkg, ready to import into Anki. There was a problem with referencing the images at first, but O4 Mini got it on the second try.
At this rate I will be able to instantly recall the names of the people in the deck in a couple of weeks. Wonderful! And for free, nonetheless.
As a bonus, I added two cards to my Default deck while I wrote this post: the spelling of "definitely", and the syntax for Markdown links.
Written 2025-04-29 (today, at the time of writing)