Anime tab not working - The remote anime API failed to respond about popcorn-desktop HOT 11 CLOSED

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make sure you got one of the latest dev builds.

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Download the latest build (development branch) from the Actions page, not the latest release version (master branch) from last year.

The YML file? How do I build it?

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no, you need to click on "update NW.js" and then choose "windows-latest"

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no, you need to click on "update NW.js" and then choose "windows-latest"

I got it installed and working. The anime tab loads now, but every series is missing episodes. Many of them contain just 1, and some have zero episodes listed.

Just as an example, Fairy Tale has 8 seasons, and tons of missing episodes.

Is that due to where it's pulling from in the API?

Edit: Another few things I notice is that there are no paginated tabs for multiple seasons for the anime section when you click into a show. There also seems to be missing languages from some titles. One title only had Russian audio, and no options for English dub or the original Japanese dub.

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Yes , this is depending what the API finds. The API is out of our control so we cant do anything about this.

Edit: Another few things I notice is that there are no paginated tabs for multiple seasons for the anime section when you click into a show. There also seems to be missing languages from some titles. One title only had Russian audio, and no options for English dub or the original Japanese dub.

Sometimes when using a 3rd party payer you can choose different build-in languages or/and subs. I use SMPlayer for PCT which works brilliant. You can then also add your own audio/subs (if you know where to get those).

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Is there another API you can add additionally to pull more episodes? Good sources if they're usable are https://nyaa.si or https://animetosho.org

Edit: Here's an unofficial Nyaa API: https://github.com/Kylart/Nyaapi

Edit: I believe animetosho's API is located here: https://feed.animetosho.org/ or here: https://feed.animetosho.org/rss2

More on Animetosho's API here: https://animetosho.org/about

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I'm sure our devs will look into these API links to see if they will be beneficial for PCT.
Thx for sharing them.

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Would you mind alerting the devs about these APIs? This thread is closed, so I'm not sure if they will see this issue.

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Would you be able to add the Animetosho API? Animetosho has pretty much every episode of every anime that's been released, in multiple languages(subtitles and audio).

If you can add the Animetosho API, it basically solves the missing episode issues entirely in one fell swoop.

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I dont know like I said these are API issues. Our current main API is the RU one so open an issue there (https://github.com/popcorn-time-ru/popcorn-ru) and @ivan1986 will surely know more about which sources can be added without issues.

Failing that, if there already is an anime torrent API out there and we want to use it directly (e.g like the yts one for movies) most chances are it wont be compatible with Popcorn Time so a wrapper will have to be coded for it if possible and if the API provides all the necessary data.

Animetosho has an API rss feed, and they have anime torrents, with magnet links. https://feed.animetosho.org/rss2

There's also this one: https://feed.animetosho.org/

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I got it installed and working. The anime tab loads now, but every series is missing episodes. Many of them contain just 1, and some have zero episodes listed.

How did you do it? Would you like to give tutorial of it?

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