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Plex Media Server Metadata Agent for MyAnimeList.net
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use different source for anime mappings #22

Closed Fribb closed 3 years ago

Fribb commented 3 years ago

currently, the mapping is provided by another project of mine, anime-lists, for the mapping between MyAnimeList and TheTVDB.

The generation of this list is automated in its majority but the recent change of TheTVDB API to be a paid service brought a problem with it, adding another source, TheMovieDB. This would have been a considerable time investment to add TheMovieDB to offer a free alternative.

The idea here is to implement a different way to get all of the currently used metadata, by using better projects.

The anime-offline-database combines the major anime websites between anidb, myanimelist, kitsu etc. This information can be used to map MyAnimeList to anidb. This relation between MyAnimeList and AniDB can then be used to bridge the gap to TheTVDB by using the anime-lists project.

Maybe it could also work to restructure/rework the anime-lists project in a way that it pulls the mentioned projects and parses the information in the structure my anime-lists is set to.

Edit: To add to this: The changes in which projects should be used will most likely not solve the issue of adding a different, free, source but matches between MyAnimeList and sources could be more reliable.

Fribb commented 3 years ago

the anime-lists project was updated to use the existing mapping projects to generate the anime-lists used by the agent.