MAL Scraper - additional information about series

[bigretromike]

MAL contain some information that AniDB is lacking
for example: Studio

We could add some additional info to ours databases
by utilizing API or simple scrapper

This could be done via CacheServer - as only once ever or by jmmserver when needed.
A cacheserver script could run and harvest those information and jmm would use those as input to avoid stressing out MAL servers - or if the API is working use that instead to free up Cache.

[bigretromike]

@da3dsoul would love this ;-)

[da3dsoul]

Did I not have an issue for this?

[da3dsoul]

Guess not

[bigretromike]

I didnt find any so I made it so it wont be forgotten ;-)

[ElementalCrisis]

MAL API is fun to work with, just ask @hidden4003. :)

Well it can be a pain I'd prefer we use it over some third-party source. Also there are over a dozen issues related to MAL so we'll probably need a "main" issue for MAL.

[bigretromike]

Throw it then and link this one there or make it project which have nice progress bar

On September 19, 2016 3:18:31 PM GMT+02:00, ElementalCrisis [email protected] wrote:

MAL API is fun to work with, just ask @hidden4003. :)

Well it can be a pain I'd prefer we use it over some third-party
source. Also there are over a dozen issues related to MAL so we'll
probably need a "main" issue for MAL.

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[da3dsoul]

https://jikan.me/docs

[bigretromike]

omg! studio! licensor! we need this !

[bigretromike]

the question would be: we doing it inside shoko-server or via web-cache

[da3dsoul]

Inside

[bigretromike]

you want to port jiken into c#, and maintain it ? wouldn't it be better to do it via web-cache ? so someone else would update it and we could contribute to jiken ?and if project would die we would replace it but leave web-cache structure intact ?

[da3dsoul]

It's already hosted, we don't need to

[bigretromike]

so what data we got now added ? Studios ?

[da3dsoul]

Nothing. We're dropping MAL Support. We're going with AniList

[bigretromike]

#738 ok
this is the issue you refer as "drop support" #739

[ElementalCrisis]

That's just the checklist, MAL has pretty much forced all third-parties devs to drop them. They completely removed their API and have no plans to bring it back as they are working on a "new" one that we should see sometime in the next millennia.