DEPRECATED

This is no longer supported because of myanimelist currently reconstructing their website

MyAnimeList

A gem wrapper for http://myanimelist.net that covers all the methods available on the current API For additional documentation, visit: http://myanimelist.net/modules.php?go=api

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'myanimelist', '~> 1.0'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install myanimelist

Configuration

MyAnimeList API requires authentication from the actual site, so you need to sign up first here.

After signing up and verifying your email, you need to assign the username and password on your respective myanimelist API, here's what you need to do, If you are using Rails: setup config/initializers/myanimelist.rb:

MyAnimeList.configure do |config|
    config.username = ENV['username']
    config.password = ENV['password']
end

If you are not using rails make sure to set this up before you can start searching.

Usage

Verify Credentials

Additional step for verifying credentials from myanimelist.

MyAnimeList.verify_credentials

Search Anime/Manga

Returns an Array of Hashes for the result.

# Anime
MyAnimeList.search_anime('Fairy Tail')
MyAnimeList::Anime.search('Fairy Tail')

# Manga
MyAnimeList.search_manga('Fairy Tail')
MyAnimeList::Manga.search('Fairy Tail'

Add Anime/Manga

Adds anime/manga on your list. For additional Anime parameters, please refer here. For Manga, please refer here. Just imagine that the xml value would be the key:value pair in ruby, as seen below.

# Anime
MyAnimeList::Anime.add(anime_id, { episode: 1, status: 2 })
=> true

# Manga
MyAnimeList::Manga.add(manga_id, { chapter: 1 })
=> true

Update Anime/Manga

Updates anime/manga on your list. For additional Anime parameters, please refer here. For Manga, please refer here. Just imagine that the xml value would be the key:value pair in ruby, as seen below.

# Anime
MyAnimeList::Anime.update(anime_id, { episode: 1, status: 2 })
=> true

# Manga
MyAnimeList::Manga.update(manga_id, { chapter: 1 })
=> true

Remove Anime/Manga

Remove anime/manga on your list.

# Anime
MyAnimeList::Anime.remove(anime_id)
=> true

# Manga
MyAnimeList::Manga.remove(manga_id)
=> true

Example

    MyAnimeList.search_anime('Fairy Tail')

    # will result to the followinghash

    =>   [{"id"=>"6702",
            "title"=>"Fairy Tail",
            "english"=>nil,
            "synonyms"=>nil,
            "episodes"=>"175",
            "score"=>"8.57",
            "type"=>"TV",
            "status"=>"Finished Airing",
            "start_date"=>"2009-10-12",
            "end_date"=>"2013-03-30",
            "synopsis"=>
                  "Set in an imaginary world, the Earth Land, there exists a Mage Guild called Fairy Tail...",
            "image"=>"http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/anime/5/18179.jpg"}
        }]

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Thanks

MyAnimeList for the API.

myanimelist © 2013+, Harvey Ico. Released under the MIT License.

Authored and maintained by Harvey Ico with help from contributors (list).