adbb

Object Oriented UDP Client for AniDB, originally forked from adba.

I created this mainly to be able to add new files to my "mylist" on anidb when I add them to my local collection. As I tend to rip my own files and have no intention of spreading them to a wide audience, I needed to add these as "generic" files to anidb. And manual work is always less fun then automating said work...

As the anidb UDP API enforces a very slow rate of requests, this implementation caches all information requested from anidb and uses the cache whenever possible. The cache is stored in mysql (or any other sqlalchemy-compatible database). For how long does it cache? It depends! Shortest caching period is one day, after that some not very inteligent algorithm will add some probability score which is used to decide if the cache should be updated or not. It's untuned and will probably be difficult to get right for all use cases... I'm listening to any ideas about how to make this better.

Also, you can always force an update of the cache by using the objects update() method.

The Anime title search is implemented using the animetitles.xml file hosted at anidb. It is automatically downloaded and stored localy (for now hardcoded to /var/tmp/adbb/animetitles.xml.gz). This animetitles file is also cached for 7 days (using mtime to calculate age) and then is automatically updated. You can of course "update" it manually by removing the cached file.

Since version 1 adbb also supports tvdb/tmdb/imdb-mapping via Anime-Lists.

Requirements

• recent python
• pycryptodome (required hash methods has been removed from the standard python library)
• sqlalchemy
• sqlalchemy-compatible database:
  • mysql
  • sqlite
  • postgresql (the one most recently used and tested)

Usage

import adbb

user="<anidb-username>"
pwd="<anidb-password>"

sql="sqlite:///adbb.db"

# initialize backend
adbb.init(user, pwd, sql, debug=True)

# anime object can be created either with a name or anime ID
anime = adbb.Anime("Kemono no Souja Erin")
#anime = adbb.Anime(6187)

# this will print "Kemono no Souja Erin has 50 episodes and is a TV Series"
print("{} has {} episodes and is a {}".format(anime.title, anime.nr_of_episodes, anime.type))

# Episode object can be created either using anime+episode number or the anidb eid
# anime can be either aid, title or Anime object
episode = adbb.Episode(anime=anime, epno=5)
#episode = adbb.Episode(eid=96461)

# this will print "'Kemono no Souja Erin' episode 5 has title 'Erin and the Egg Thieves'"
print("'{}' episode {} has title '{}'".format(episode.anime.title, episode.episode_number, episode.title_eng))

# file can either be created with a local file, an anidb file id (fid) or 
# using Anime and Episode
file = File(path="/media/Anime/Series/Kemono no Souja Erin/[winterbird] Kemono no Souja Erin - 05 [8EEAA040].mkv")
#file = File(fid=<some-fid>)
#file = File(anime=anime, episode=episode)

# note that most of the time this will work even if we use a file that is not in the anidb database
# will print "'<path>' contains episode 5 of 'Kemono no Souja Erin'. Mylist state is 'on hdd'"
print("'{}' contains episode {} of '{}'. Mylist state is '{}'".format(file.path, file.episode.episode_number, file.anime.title, file.mylist_state))

# adbb supports fetching posters. download_image() supports Anime and Group objects
# (afaik, there are no other images to get from anidb)
# For other images, check the fanart section below.
with open('poster.jpg', 'wb') as f:
    adbb.download_image(f, anime)

# To log out from UDP api, make sure to run adbb.close() before exit
adbb.close()

Reference

Anime object

Anime(init)

'init' can be either a title or aid. Titles are searched in the animetitles.xml file using fuzzy text matching (implemented using difflib). Only a single Anime is created, using the best title match. Note that some titles are ambigious. A search for 'Ranma', for example, can return either the series 'Ranma 1/2' (which has "Ranma" as a synonym) or 'Ranma 1/2 Nettou Hen' which has "Ranma" as an official title).

Attributes

• aid - AniDB anime ID
• titles - A list of all titles for this Anime
• title - main title of this Anime
• updated - datetime when information about this Anime was last fetched from AniDB
• tvdbid - TVDB ID for this anime or None if not available.
• tmdbid - TMDB ID for this anime or None if not available. Can be a list if this Anime maps to multiple movies, use the tmdbid attribute on the Episode object to get the tmdbid for a specific episode.
• imdbid - IMDB ID for this anime or None if not available. Can be a list if thie Anime maps to multiple movies, use the imdbid attribute on the Episode object to get the imdbid for a specific episode.
• relations - A list of tuples containing relations to this anime. The first entry in the tuple is a string describing the relation type and the second is an Anime-object for the related anime.
• fanart - if enabled it will return a list of dicts directly translated from the json returned from the fanart.tv API. Returns an empty list if not enabled.

The following attributes as returned from the AniDB API

• year
• type
• nr_of_episodes
• highest_episode_number
• special_ep_count
• air_date
• end_date
• url
• picname
• rating
• vote_count
• temp_rating
• temp_vote_count
• average_review_rating
• review_count
• is_18_restricted
• ann_id
• allcinema_id
• animenfo_id
• anidb_updated
• special_count
• credit_count
• other_count
• trailer_count
• parody_count

Episode

Episode(anime=None, epno=None, eid=None)

Episode object can be created by specifying both anime and epno, or using just eid. anime can be either a title, aid or an Anime object. epno should be either a string or int representing the episode number. eid should be an int.

Attributes

• eid - AniDB episode ID
• anime - Anime object for the anime series that this episode belongs to
• episode_number - The episode number (note that this is a string)
• updated - datetime when information about this episode was last fetched from AniDB
• tvdb_episode - A tuple containing (season, episode) if this episode can be mapped to a TVDB episode. Note that episode is usualy a string containing the episode number, but can also be a tuple with (episode_number, partnumber) or a string containing episode numbers separated by '+' if the anidb episode is mapped to part of a TVDB episode or vice versa.
• tmdbid - TMDB ID for this episode or None if not available.
• imdbid - IMDB ID for this episode or None if not available.

The following attributes as returned from the AniDB API

• length
• rating
• votes
• title_eng
• title_romaji
• title_kanji
• aired
• type

File

File(path=None, fid=None, anime=None, episode=None)

File object requires either path, fid, or anime and episode to be set. When setting anime and episode this file will either be a generic file, or the file you have in your mylist for this anime and episode. fid is obviously the AniDB file ID. Path is the fun one.

When a path is specified the library will first check the size and ed2k-hash to the AniDB database. If the file exists there this will obviously represent that file. If the file doesn't exist in the AniDB databse the library will try to figure out which anime and episode this file represents. The episode number is guessed from the filename by using some regex. If no episode number is found, adbb will check if the Anime only has a single episode; and if that is the case it will assume that the file has episode number '1'. The Anime title is guessed from the parent directory if there is a good-enough match in the animetitles- file, otherwise it's guessed from the filename. For details, check _guess_anime_ep_from_file() and _guess_epno_from_filename() in the File class in animeobjs.py, and get_titles() in anames.py.

Functions

The File object has some functions for managing the file in mylist.

update_mylist(state=None, watched=None, source=None, other=None)
remove_from_mylist()

The update_mylist() function can be used both to add and to edit a file in mylist. state can be one of 'unknown', 'on hdd', 'on cd' or 'deleted'. watched can be either True, False or an datetime object describing when it was watched.

Attributes

• anime - Anime object for which anime this file contains
• episode - Episode object for which episode this file contains
• group - Group object for file authors
• multiep - List of episode numbers this file contains. The episode number parsing supports multiple episodes, but fetching from AniDB does not so this is not reliable and I'm not really sure what to do with it...
• fid - File ID from AniDB
• path - Full Path to this file (if created with a path)
• size - file size in bytes
• ed2khash - ed2k-hash, because AniDB still uses it...
• updated - datetime when information about this file was last fetched from AniDB

The following attributes as returned from the AniDB API

• lid
• gid
• is_deprecated
• is_generic
• crc_ok
• file_version
• censored
• length_in_seconds
• description
• aired_date
• mylist_state
• mylist_filestate
• mylist_viewed
• mylist_viewdate
• mylist_storage
• mylist_source
• mylist_other

Group

Group(name=None, gid=None)

Group object requires either a name (can be either short or long name) or gid. A group created with a name is always considered valid, and will be saved to the database even if the name does not represent a group in AniDB. In that case both the name and the short name will be set to the given name, and all other atributes will be empty.

Attributes

• updated - datetime when information about this file was last fetched from AniDB

The following attributes as returned from the AniDB API

• gid
• rating
• votes
• acount
• fcount
• name
• short
• irc_channel
• irc_server
• url
• picname
• founded
• disbanded
• dateflag
• last_release
• last_activity

Fanart

The Anime object contains an attribute called fanart that can be used to fetch available fanart for that series/movie from fanart.tv if two conditions are met:

• you must provide an API key either in the init()-call using the keyword fanart_api_key or by providing it in an .netrc-file.
• The series/movie must be properly mapped to a tvdb/tmdb/imdb-ID in Anime-Lists

The fanart attribute just returns a list of metadata from the fanart.tv api; but the adbb.download_fanart()-method can be used to download the actual fanart. This example downloads the first background fanart the api returned. The attribute is directly translated from the json API, so for structure description you should check the fanart.tv API reference. Note that it differs slightly between series and movies.

import adbb

api_key='secret'

adbb.init('sqlite:///.adbb.db', netrc_file='.netrc', fanart_api_key=api_key)

anime = adbb.Anime("Kemono no Souja Erin")

fanart = anime.fanart
background_url = fanart[0]["showbackground"][0]["url"]
with open("background.jpg", "wb") as f:
    # The "preview" keyword-argument is False by default, but can be
    # set to "true" to download a low-resolution preview image
    adbb.download_fanart(f, background_url, preview=False)

adbb.close()

netrc

Although you can provide usernames and passwords directly to the init() call it can be useful to have them stored elsewhere. init() supports the netrc_file keyword argument to fetch authentication information from a .netrc-file. The library checks the .netrc-file for the following credentials:

• anidb username, password and encryption key. The account option is used to set the encryption key (machinename must be one of 'api.anidb.net', 'api.anidb.info', 'anidb.net')
• database credentials (machinename must match your mysql/postgres hostname)
• fanart API key (machinename must be one of 'fanart.tv', 'assets.fanart.tv', 'webservice.fanart.tv', 'api.fanart.tv'

machine api.anidb.net
        username winterbird
        password supersecretpassword
        account supersecretencryptionkey
machine sql.localdomain
        username adbb
        password supersecretpassword
machine fanart.tv
        account supersecretapikey

Encryption

As per the UDP API specification encrypted network traffic is not enabled by default but must be manually activated by the user. In the case of adbb, you activate encryption by providing your encryption key when initializeing the library. Either with the api_key-keyword argument to init() or by using a .netrc.

You specify the encryption key yourself in your AniDB Profile. It's way past 1990, you really shouldn't send usernames and password unencrypted over the internet.

Utilities

The library contains two command line utilities for mylist management. These are purely implemented after personal need, but is probably useful for other people as well. The source code could also be consulted for inspiration to make other tools. For usage, run the command with --help.

adbb_cache

Tool to manage the cache database. At the moment it can only clean the database of unwanted/uneeded stuff, but perhaps importing data to the cache could be supported at some point.. run adbb_cache --help and adbb_cache <subcommand> --help for usage. The most useful subcommands ar probably old to remove stuff that hasn't been touched in a while (90 days by default), and file which can be used to remove files from the database as well as (with the proper flags) from filesystem and mylist. This tool does not use the UDP API, except if it's asked to remove files from mylist.

arrange_anime

Tool to identify episode files and move/rename them for easy identification by for media centers. You should probably run it with --dry-run first to make sure it behaves as expected.

jellyfin_anime_sync

Glueware for AniDB<->jellyfin integration. Requires jellyfin-apiclient-python. For more information, and usage, for this tool, see JELLYFIN.md.

Upgrading

Object API

I'll do my best to keep the API stable, so if you just use the Objects the code should continue to work with new releases.

Datbase

You should recreate the databse after every release. I haven't figure out how to make sane database migrations on schema changes, so for now you should repopulate the cache when upgrading (just remove the sqlite databasefile or drop and recreate the postgres/mysql database).

Utilities

I'll be restrictive about behavioural changes, and try to document them when they occur, but no promises as of now.

TODO:

In no particular order:

• importing cache from anidb mylist exports.
• add support for descriptions (The only(?) feature missing to create a full-featured media-center scraper). Unfortunately, episode-descriptions are not supported by the UDP API.
• any other feature request?