Docs regarding types in Discover - Others, Anime, ??

[EnArvy]

I could not find anything in the docs regarding what goes in the select options besides Movies, Series, TV, Channels. Especially Anime, which I also see some addons listing as type in Catalog. Any help regarding this?

[jaruba]

movie, series, tv, channel and other are the only official catalog (and meta) types

but for catalogs, we allow any custom string to be a valid catalog type, while anime is not an official type, it has been widely used by community developers

so the reason those are not documented is because they are not official, but still accepted (as any string is accepted for catalog types)

[EnArvy]

So is there extra support for "anime" to show on Discover page? What about "Others" ?

[jaruba]

i edited my comment as other is also an official type, although very rarely used today

other was made for all other cases that do not fit into movie, series, tv and channel, but it was made many years before we ever allowed custom types (any string) as an accepted value for catalog types in all Stremio apps

it is rarely used today specifically because we now allow custom types

[jaruba]

but you asked for "extra support for anime", i am not sure what ur question means, for catalogs, as stated, it can be any string, you can name the catalog type "heaven" or "hell" and it will be accepted, but the meta objects that respond to the catalog request can only use one of the official types listed above

[jaruba]

it should also be noted that catalogs can include metas of multiple types, so a catalog can respond with both movies, series, channels, etc

the catalog type does not presume that the metas in the catalog must have the same type as the catalog

[jaruba]

also to note, as far as i know, "anime" is not specific to movie or series, and more so, on anime metadata websites, the movie and series items are mixed within lists, not separated

and as mentioned above, you can mix these meta types in Stremio catalogs also (regardless of the catalog type, be it "anime" or anything else)

i hope this response is detailed enough

[EnArvy]

Thanks for the detailed response. What I meant by extra support is that it shows up in Discover tab whereas other random strings don't.

[jaruba]

but this is not true, the types that u choose on the Discover page are dictated by catalog.type: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-addon-sdk/blob/master/docs/api/responses/manifest.md#catalog-format

and it can be any string, the addon developer can make up anything that goes there, anime is not special at all, it is a custom type for catalogs that some addons use