Would you please consider adding those three to the API on anime details? It would be much appreciated.

The score field is used for the score given by the user and is constrained to integer values values 0 thru 10 inclusive.

However the top endpoint gives it as a float value

Also the value returned does match the correct value for member_score

I've included a representative sample of the incorrect data below.

[
    {
        "id": 5114,
        "title": "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood",
        "other_titles": {},
        "synopsis": null,
        "type": "TV",
        "rank": null,
        "popularity_rank": null,
        "image_url": "http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/anime/5/47421t.jpg",
        "episodes": 64,
        "status": null,
        "start_date": null,
        "end_date": null,
        "genres": [],
        "tags": [],
        "classification": null,
        "members_score": null,
        "members_count": 209762,
        "favorited_count": null,
        "manga_adaptations": [],
        "prequels": [],
        "sequels": [],
        "side_stories": [],
        "parent_story": null,
        "character_anime": [],
        "spin_offs": [],
        "summaries": [],
        "alternative_versions": [],
        "listed_anime_id": null,
        "watched_episodes": null,
        "score": 9.21,
        "watched_status": null
    },

I'm attempting to use the API on a mobile web site, and I am running into what I think are CORS issues. When I you issue a regular XHR GET request it works fine. However, when I specify a custom header, in my case the Basic authentication, my requests fail. I think the reason is because when you add a custom header the browser first sends a pre-flight OPTIONS request to the endpoint to see if it is OK. If the endpoint returns a 200, then it continues on and sends the GET request.

Currently, OPTIONS requests to any URL returns a 404 which prevents my requests from completing. I can use JSONP as a workaround, but it is an undesired way to call into the API.

If there is a solution to this from the consumer end let me know.

{"details":"Exception message: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)","error":"unknown-error"}

Not again... perhaps you need to set the server to restart every 2 weeks?

The entity encodings differ between single-anime results and a list of animes.

Compare these two results:
Correct: http://mal-api.com/anime/search?q=Black%20Rock%20Shooter

Unnecessary entities: http://mal-api.com/anime/search?q=Black%20Rock%20Shooter%20(OVA)
http://mal-api.com/anime/search?q=Yuru%20Yuri%E2%99%AA%E2%99%AA

I guess this is the case because a single result gets treated differently than a result list, I don't really know Ruby though, so I'm not of much help code-wise.

None of the anime API works because of a gateway error. Manga API still works, However.

No results will show unless you type in the full title. This effects both anime and manga.

Hello,

I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask, but I haven't found a better place yet. The public api site at mal-api.com appears to be down and has stayed down for a good while now. Is it simply dead for good? Or has it moved or something?

Thanks :)

This is because MAL recently changed their layout.

Same with the anime/manga information lookup

This time, none of the functions work.

http://mal-api.com/animelist/anime/8476

Not Found

Happens to JSON output only.

Hi, I don't know where I can ask someone about this API, so I'm asking here.

I used this public API (mal-api.com) and it worked fine, but now it doesn't work. So first question, is it still public API? Can I use mal-api.com or do I have to set this code up on my own server?

So, now each method of API (mal-api.com) returnls error or empty array:

For example:

http://mal-api.com/animelist/xinil (Status Code 500)
{"error":"unknown-error","details":"Exception message: undefined method `text' for nil:NilClass"}

http://mal-api.com/anime/1887 (Status Code 500)
{"error":"unknown-error","details":"Exception message: Error scraping anime with ID=1887. Original exception: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass."}

Can you tell what is going wrong?

Thanks

I created a profile for testing the scraping. If you hit a newly created profile (http://mal-api.com/profile/partial_profile) the current site raises an exception. The problem lies in the profile page has some inconsistent layout. If a user does not have an anime/manga history, then a table isn't rendered for that part of the page.

Suggest changing from:

details, updates, anime_stats, manga_stats = main_content.search("> table table")

To something more specific:

details = main_content.at('div.normal_header:contains("Details")').next_element
updates = main_content.at('div.normal_header:contains("Last List Updates")').next_element
anime_stats = main_content.at('h2:contains("Anime Stats")').next_element
manga_stats = main_content.at('h2:contains("Manga Stats")').next_element

This might catch all the scenarios a little better.

The Anime ID exists, but trying to update leads to a 404 error. Delete function still doesn't work.

http://mal-api.com/animelist/xinil

{
    "error": "unknown-error",
    "details": "Exception message: undefined method `NetworkError' for MyAnimeList::AnimeList:Class"
}

As an example, take Umineko no Naku Koro ni: http://myanimelist.net/anime/4896/Umineko_no_Naku_Koro_ni

You can see in the information: "Genres: Mystery, Horror, Supernatural, Psychological". However, when using /anime/search the resulting genres array is empty.

Python example:

import urllib.request
import json
searchresult = urllib.request.urlopen("http://mal-api.com/anime/search?q=umineko").read()
parsedresult = json.loads(searchresult.decode())
for anime in parsedresult:
   print(anime['title'], anime['genres'])

Output:
Umineko no Naku Koro ni []
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Specials []

For anime 189 retrieved URL http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/5/52803t.jpg for the main series it should have pulled http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/anime/1/189.jpg

Using this API I get the error:
"MAL Updater OS X was unable to log you in since you don't have the correct username and/or password."
Although my username and password are correct.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Update: I spoke to the MAL Updater OS X maintainer and he pointed me here too, it does appear to be an issue with the api.
Any luck looking at the logs?

Getting a seemingly random mixture of errors when trying to save a token with MAL Updater OS X.
Is it possible to look at any logs to find out where the problem is?
Username and password are definitely correct.

returned from mal 2010-10-22

it just happened.