Ideas for a federated anime tracker (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Asudox@lemmy.world to c/anime@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'll see what I can do.
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.

[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I inputted my username and got this error

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I added all the anime that I have watched and I got this error now

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.