cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14934313

Hello Lemmings.

I will be attempting to make a federated anime tracker this summer, but I am not quite sure what features people would want and how I would get the details for animes, mangas, etc.

For the latter: What I thought was to either scrape other anime websites continuosly in the background, but this most likely is against the ToS of every anime tracking website, such as AniList or MAL. (I actually asked anidb.net for special access to their DB because apparently you can request access to it, but I’ve been left on read by the two staff members) My second idea was to make it an anime tracker website where animes are only user-submitted. And the user submissions would be approved by assigned moderators. However, I think this would be quite inconvenient. I’d like to get your opinions and/or ideas for this.

For the former: So if you have any requests or suggestions, please drop it down in the comments section.

Thanks in advance.

  • mesamuneEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    You can probably fork bookwyrm or another related platform. Might help you out to get started on the activity hub integration and functionality.

    • asudoxEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      That won’t do. Bookwyrm is written in Python, while mine will be written in Rust. I also just planned things out and seems like this federated anime tracker will have to wait a few years or release itself as a generic audiovisual content tracker. The thing is, I can’t seem to find a source for the animes and mangas, I might consider scraping but it’s somewhat risky and takes a lot of time. I considered making an open source database for all anime related things. This federated anime tracker then would get dumps of that database daily and work that way. I only found vndb which gave dumps of their database, but MyAnimeList, AniList, aniDB etc don’t seem to give dumps of their databases.

      • mesamuneEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        Whatever you want GL! It’s just a starting point. They used Django/python but whatever makes you happy.

        Most of these kinds of projects die on the vine so I was hoping by starting from something that already exists its more likely to succeed.