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Ideas for a federated anime tracker (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I see. That probably could be a solution. Thanks, that gave me an alternative way of doing things. I'll consider this while making this project and see how I can do it.
Yeah, that definitely will be a feature. No worries!

As for point 3 and 4, they most likely will be implemented as well.

Honestly, your repo idea could even make this project not only an anime tracker but basically a tracker for every audiovisual content without much effort.