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.
Sounds cool good luck with the project! Imo scrapers are hard to get to work well or might still miss stuff. I would give people the chance to submit their own snow information, maybe limit it to their profile until moderation approval then put it out on the general list. Also I’m assuming you would have all the normal tracker stuff but I know the ability to log when I have watched something or rewatched something would be important to me. Like the actual dates. The SO and I like to review our show history and talke about it.
I actually already have an anime recommendation system, but it’s for MAL. And it only works if you already have a bunch of different animelists. I might have to make another one, or have the recommendations be user-submitted like in MAL.
Yeah, I’ve set a minimum limit for animelists. Your animelist appears to be smaller than 50 so it won’t be processed. This is not because it can’t, but because I manually set it so that anime newbies don’t get bad quality recommendations. It has something to do with how the algorithm works.
Well, that’s unfortunate. You seem to be unique, so no recommendation can be given. I’ll retrain the system today and see what happens. Sorry for the inconvenience. It might take a while.
Oh I see. Yeah, I never bothered inputting many since the website doesn’t give me any recommendations based on my data so I just ended up inputting everything on the TV Time app.
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You can probably fork bookwyrm or another related platform. Might help you out to get started on the activity hub integration and functionality.
Sounds cool good luck with the project! Imo scrapers are hard to get to work well or might still miss stuff. I would give people the chance to submit their own snow information, maybe limit it to their profile until moderation approval then put it out on the general list. Also I’m assuming you would have all the normal tracker stuff but I know the ability to log when I have watched something or rewatched something would be important to me. Like the actual dates. The SO and I like to review our show history and talke about it.
Also feel free to bounce ideas off me!
To me the coolest features would be
I inputted my username and got this error
Yeah, I’ve set a minimum limit for animelists. Your animelist appears to be smaller than 50 so it won’t be processed. This is not because it can’t, but because I manually set it so that anime newbies don’t get bad quality recommendations. It has something to do with how the algorithm works.
I added all the anime that I have watched and I got this error now
Sorry, can you tell me your MAL username?
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Cool, you should now get a bunch of recs. Try it again.
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Well, that’s unfortunate. You seem to be unique, so no recommendation can be given. I’ll retrain the system today and see what happens. Sorry for the inconvenience. It might take a while.
Oh I see. Yeah, I never bothered inputting many since the website doesn’t give me any recommendations based on my data so I just ended up inputting everything on the TV Time app.