HTTP API Definition

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General

The HTTP XML API is only a small part of the AniDB API framework, please refer to API for an overview.

Clients

If you want to create a client you have to register it here and here.

Encoding

All content is UTF8 encoded and gzip compressed (you may have to handle the decompressing yourself, if your HTTP library doesn't support compression of HTTP data).

Flooding

All users of this API should employ heavy local caching. Requesting the same dataset multiple times on a single day can get you banned. The same goes for request flooding. You should not request more than one page every two seconds on average.

Parameters

These parameters apply to all HTTP XML API pages and should always be added to the request URLs.

All users of the HTTP XML API need to be registered and have to provide their registered client identifier and version number on each request. For more information on client registration visit UDP API Definition.

Parameters:

• client={string} [required]
  • client identification string, needs to be a registered client identifier, see:

• clientver={integer} [required]
  • client version number, needs to be valid client version number for the given client identification string.

• protover={integer} [required]
  • protocol version in use. Possible values: 1

• request={string} [required]
  • HTTP XML datapage requested. See following sections.

Example: URL: http://api.anidb.net:9001/httpapi?client={str}&clientver={int}&protover=1

Anime Data

Allows retrieval of non-file or episode related information for a specific anime by AID (AniDB anime id).

Access

Base URL: http://api.anidb.net:9001/httpapi?request=anime

Parameters:

• request=anime
• aid={integer} [required]
  • AniDB anime id of the anime you want to retrieve data for.

Example: URL: http://api.anidb.net:9001/httpapi?request=anime&client={client}&clientver={clientversion}&protover=1&aid={animeid}

Data

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<anime id="1" restricted="false">
   <type>TV Series</type>
   <episodecount>13</episodecount>
   <startdate>1999-01-04</startdate>
   <enddate>1999-03-29</enddate>
   <titles>
      <title xml:lang="x-jat" type="main">Seikai no Monshou</title>
      <title xml:lang="zh-Hans" type="syn">星界之纹章</title>
      <title xml:lang="en" type="short">CotS</title>
      <title xml:lang="x-jat" type="short">SnM</title>
      <title xml:lang="ja" type="official">星界の紋章</title>
      <title xml:lang="en" type="official">Crest of the Stars</title>
      <title xml:lang="fr" type="official">Crest of the Stars</title>
      <title xml:lang="pl" type="official">Crest of the Stars</title>
   </titles>
   <relatedanime>
      <anime id="4" type="Sequel">Seikai no Senki</anime>
      <anime id="6" type="Prequel">Seikai no Danshou</anime>
      <anime id="1623" type="Summary">Seikai no Monshou Tokubetsuhen</anime>
   </relatedanime>
   <url>http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/seikai/</url>
   <creators>
      <name id="4495" type="Original Work">Morioka Hiroyuki</name>
   </creators>
   <description>Jinto Lin`s life changes forever when the Humankind Empire Abh takes over his home planet of Martine without firing a single shot. He is soon sent off to study the Abh language and culture and to prepare himself for his future as a nobleman — a future he never dreamed of. Or wanted.Now, Jinto is entering the next phase of his training, and he is about to meet his first Abh, the lovely Lafiel. But Jinto is about to learn that she is more than she appears to be. And together they will have to fight for their very lives.</description>
   <ratings>
      <permanent count="2953">8.53</permanent>
      <temporary count="96">7.58</temporary>
      <review count="11">8.75</review>
   </ratings>
   <picture>440.jpg</picture>
   <categories>
      <category id="174" parentid="8" hentai="false" weight="500">
         <name>Space Travel</name>
         <description>Space Travel usually refers going to space or travelling there with or without a spacecraft. There are different forms of space travel like Interplanetary travel, Interstellar travel or Intergalactic travel. Since it isn`t possible to travel faster than light, most anime series involve some sort "sub-space travel mechanism" as a way to travel faster than light.</description>
      </category>
      <category id="274" parentid="268" hentai="false" weight="400">
         <name>Novel</name>
         <description>Note that novel means book with words in paper, so no comics and no "visual novels", which should go under manga and dating-sim - visual Novel/erotic game respectively.&#13;
&#13;
Note that it can be applied to novels as we know them but also the typical light novels for teens and young adults, which are common in Japan and aside from being short include a number of illustrations. </description>
      </category>
   </categories>
   <tags>
      <tag id="136" approval="20" spoiler="false" update="2009-05-23">
         <name>space opera</name>
         <count>71</count>
      </tag>
      <tag id="175" approval="17" spoiler="false" update="2008-03-13">
         <name>space elves</name>
         <count>12</count>
      </tag>
      <tag id="389" approval="15" spoiler="false" update="2008-06-03">
         <name>war setting</name>
         <count>64</count>
      </tag>
      <tag id="393" approval="18" spoiler="false" update="2008-06-03">
         <name>space battles</name>
         <count>43</count>
         <description>There are space battles in this anime. Usually between Earth forces and some alien invader, but ship to ship skirmishes in deep space are just as common.</description>
      </tag>
   </tags>
   <characters>
      <character id="7493" type="appears in" update="2009-05-28">
         <name>Gosroth</name>
         <description>The Resii Gothroth.The first Abh ship lost in the war.</description>
         <episodes>1,1012</episodes>
         <picture>26147.jpg</picture>
      </character>
      <character id="7501" type="appears in" update="2009-05-28">
         <name>Planet Martine</name>
         <description>The homeworld of Jinto</description>
         <episodes>1</episodes>
      </character>
      <character id="7503" type="appears in" update="2009-05-28">
         <name>Rock Lynn</name>
         <description>The former president of Martine, later made count of the Hyde system, after striking a deal with the Abh (in episode 1)</description>
         <episodes>1</episodes>
         <picture>26165.jpg</picture>
      </character>
   </characters>
   <episodes>
      <episode id="1" update="2005-03-10">
         <epno>1</epno>
         <length>24</length>
         <airdate>1999-01-03</airdate>
         <rating votes="17">5.66</rating>
         <title xml:lang="ja">侵略</title>
         <title xml:lang="en">Invasion</title>
         <title xml:lang="fr">Invasion</title>
         <title xml:lang="x-jat">shinryaku</title>
      </episode>
      <episode id="2" update="2005-03-11">
         <epno>2</epno>
         <length>24</length>
         <airdate>1999-01-10</airdate>
         <rating votes="12">6.66</rating>
         <title xml:lang="ja">星たちの眷族</title>
         <title xml:lang="en">Kin of the Stars</title>
         <title xml:lang="fr">Les parents des Étoiles</title>
         <title xml:lang="x-jat">Hoshi-tachi no Kenzoku</title>
      </episode>
   </episodes>
</anime>