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3 weeks ago I could just have a list of genres similar to how the industry uses them, so a list similar to what I posted above. But TMDB has it's own strengths and weakness's and quirky choices for keywords. I wanted your advice if it's okay to scrape all the shows with the keyword "anime" from tmdb, then to get a list of all the keywords for each anime and have a tally of the words TMDB likes to use. Using this we could not only have industry standard genres but have genres that are TMDB specific. This could also help with auto-complete , with knowing what keywords are used you can only have them come up.
I've been playing with Anime section and I don't think people understand the full capability of what Fen Light can do with anime with it's integration with TMDB, Trakt and IMDB recommendations.
I've come across a show then use context menu to get IMDB recommendations (way more accurate than TMDB reccomendations), then I checked what Trakt list's it's included in, and found amazing lists that are representative of the anime I'm looking at. We have trailers, reviews, cast where we can find other works by them.
Now with a bigger and more complete genre list, you can find so much anime with little effort, once people use Fen Light to it's maximum. Is it possible to get all the keywords for anime and have a spreadsheet with all a tally of them?
Anime is Japanese Animation. Instead of searching for keyword anime. I've searched for Language: Japanese Genre:Animation
this is 1:1 with using Anime as a keyword.
If you use more than one keyword in TMDB website search, it's an OR operator and not an AND operator.
this is a subgenre of anime Shoujo: a genre of Japanese comics and animated films aimed primarily at a young female audience, typically characterized by a focus on personal and romantic relationships.
If we search using two keywords, "anime" & "Shoujo" we get this result
looking at first anime Dragon Ball DAIMA (2024) this is the keywords it has
this isn't what I wanted I wanted to search for Shoujo. Now instead of anime, if I use language Japanese and genre animation and use the keyword Shoujo , I get this
BINGO. Do you know how powerful this is? all this time we kept saying TMDB doesn't have anime genre. They could easily create a section just using discover filters. Of course not every anime will have the right keyword but I'm confident this could beat SIMKL or even OTAKU.
Look at this for "military" subgenre of anime using this method
This is amazing, and not only that having keywords is way more powerful than even OTAKU. Now I'd like to take on a project with your help (if you are willing)
I want to create a list of genres similar to say OTAKU 100% we'll get every genre possible with using keywords. BUT I want to do one better. So I'll have a list of genres
but each genre will be a folder, so inside action genre we'll have search term for just action at the top but underneath we'll have subfolders with the subgenres of action (Still need to make a list of what those will be)
TMDB is so powerful. this will be better than any genre list out their. But I've realised your discover feature in Fen Light is a strip down version of the one in FEN. right now I can accomplish all this in FEN .
Realising how powerful discover is (you was right before) we can update the discover in Fen Light? If so I want some more filters. one of them is similar to
So we can get anime that are airing on a specific date. I want the ability to go back or forward from present day. so effectively I want to have a list similar to Haro with airing anime
TMDB is working perfectly for this already. I can search for anime that is airing today. so now we are building a really good anime section.
So I can handle all the listings , you can let me know what you want from me, like after I done all the folders with genres and everything , you want the file?
This goes beyond Anime. nothing stopping us creating a folder of a language, say French and then list all genres of french. Or Chinese animation . Or korean Dramas. I want to work on anime and see how well it will turn out and then have a go at kdrama
Also the keywords are so amazing way to search that I wanted an autocomplete field, and luck was on my side "Daily ID export is now live."
https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/588418309251410457012d57
https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/daily-id-exports
using http://files.tmdb.org/p/exports/keyword_ids_MM_DD_YYYY.json.gz
I can get a list of all the keywords. I'm not sure how you will do this but is their a way to have an autocomplete function for keywords using this list?
The discover is so amazing that I had no clue Thanks for reading this TLDR I'd like to work on creating a structure to anime section to literally make it a complete anime addon that can stand on its own I can go ahead and start working on the structure and use FEN to create it, then I'll have the file that I can send to you to look at I'd like Fen Light to have a more Discover feature equal and better than FEN has with dates adition so I can search for today's date, and 1 day before, 2 day before etc. basically I want to have a list of all days of the week like Haru has I'd like an autocomplete feature for keywords. Also is their a way to have multiple keywords using AND operator, unlike the tmdb website that is using OR operator.
Kind of excited what the possibilities are. Tahnkyou for taking time to read, if you have any thoughts or questions , I'm happy to hear them