Add Anisearch as a data source for anime/manga/LNs

[Nihilate]

An admin for anisearch.com has requested that it be added as a data source. The API isn't publicly available, but he's given the following information:

• The base URL is https://www.anisearch.com/api/v1/roboragi/{ENTRY_TYPE}, where {ENTRY_TYPE} is "anime" or "manga" (which contains light novels as well)
• Security is handled via a simple token as a URL parameter: /api/v1/roboragi/anime?token=XXXX&mal_id=1535
• The response payload is JSON
• A lack of result should provide the following response: {"error":"404 Not Found"}
• You can get information directly from Anisearch/MAL/ANN or AniDB IDs: /api/v1/roboragi/anime?anisearch_id=3633, /api/v1/roboragi/anime?mal_id=1535, /api/v1/roboragi/anime?anidb_id=4563, /api/v1/roboragi/anime?ann_id=6592. Searching by ID returns a result which looks like this.
• You can also search by title: /api/v1/roboragi/anime?title=death%20note. Search results look like this.

[tada5hi]

Did you wrote them an email for API Access, or how did you get access ? ^^ Werent able to locate an area on the page, where i can request a token for their api ^^?

[Nihilate]

A member of their community reached out to me and then to one of the admins to set up access - you'll have to have a chat with them. My talks have been via Reddit, you'll probably have to contact them via their support page.

[reillysiemens]

Are there any plans for the API to become publicly available? :thinking:

[Nihilate]

It seemed like they were keen to open it at some point, but they didn't sound like they were in any rush. The API is reasonably solid from what I've seen, so it probably wouldn't be super hard on their side.