Ideas for a federated anime tracker (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Asudox@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago

If you did this for all audiovisual content and not just anime I'd be all in.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure that I/someone could just fork this project once it's done and make a few changes to it to make it a audiovisual content tracker.

[-] Temperche@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

I think the biggest challenge will be to standardize the scraping process since databases for audiovisual content are very differently structured. Will probably require database-by-database API access/negotiations so that you know how their databases are structured - completely FOSS audiovisual content databases are rare.