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submitted 6 months ago by Asudox@lemmy.world to c/anime@ani.social

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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[-] Biyoo 5 points 6 months ago

If you can you should try making it easy to integrate with Shoko anime, the guys over there are probably your target demographic since it's self hosted and open source.

[-] wjs018@ani.social 3 points 6 months ago

TIL about Shoko. Looks interesting. I have a pretty non-standard plex setup though, so I will have to look into how I could integrate it when I get a chance. I am guessing it will be some complicated docker volume mappings to make sure the plugin files all end up in the right places.

Or...this might be the kick I need to get Jellyfin up and running.

[-] Biyoo 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It worked well with Plex when I used it, but like you said it depends on your setup. I think Shoko only needs access to your anime Library folder, and Plex will just ask Shoko for metadata on localhost the same way it would for tvdb.

I personally swapped to jellyfin and it's great. The main appeal of shoko for me is renaming and sorting my files automatically when I place them in my import folder.

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