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Mylist Commands

MYLISTADD: Add file to mylist

Feature request: It'd be useful if the reply of this command would contain the lid of the added file.

Possible Replies:

• 210 MYLIST ENTRY ADDED

{int4 number of entries added}[|{int4 lid}]

Replies with 3xx and 4xx codes skipped.

Notes:

• The lid of the added file is written in the reply only in case just one file was added. Actualy, if many files were added, there lid's would by useless to client because it wouldn't know the correspondence between lid's and files.

USER LIST COMMANDS

USERLIST : Retrieve Mylist Data of a specified user

Feature Request  : The purpose is for a client I want to make, which will essentially be a more user friendly method of viewing and manipulating the view of a user's list. Sort by various categories and so on. I would like to be able to view and browse a specified user's list just as I can with the web interface

Probably best implemented to behave just like the mylist commands.

Command String:
by lid: (userlist user={str name}&id)

• USERLIST user={str name}&lid={int4 lid}

by fid:

• USERLIST user={str name}&fid={int4 fid}

by size+ed2k hash:

• USERLIST user={str name}&size={int4 size}&ed2k={str ed2khash}

by anime + group + epno

• USERLIST user={str name}&aname={str anime name}&gname={str group name}&epno={int4 episode number}
• USERLIST user={str name}&aname={str anime name}&gid={int4 group id}&epno={int4 episode number}
• USERLIST user={str name}&aid={int4 anime id}&gname={str group name}&epno={int4 episode number}
• USERLIST user={str name}&aid={int4 anime id}&gid={int4 group id}&epno={int4 episode number}

Possible Replies:

• 221 USERLIST

{int4 lid}|{int4 fid}|{int4 eid}|{int4 aid}|{int4 gid}|{int4 date}|{int2 state}|{int4 viewdate}|{str storage}|{str source}|{str other}

• 322 MULTIPLE FILES FOUND

{str anime title}|{int episodes}|{str eps with state unknown}|{str eps with state on hhd}|{str eps with state on cd}|{str eps with state deleted}|{str watched eps}|{str group 1 short name}|{str eps for group 1}|...|{str group N short name}|{str eps for group N}

• 321 NO SUCH ENTRY

Info:

• The state field provides information about the location and sharing state of a file in mylist.
• If files are added after hashing, a client should specify the state as 1 (on hdd) (if the user doesn't explicitly select something else).
• eps is a list of episodes, e.g. "1-12,14-16,T1"

States:

 0 - unknown - state is unknown or the user doesn't want to provide this information
 1 - on hdd - the file is stored on hdd (but is not shared)
 2 - on cd - the file is stored on cd
 3 - deleted - the file has been deleted or is not available for other reasons (i.e. reencoded)

Example:

 > USERLIST user=baka&aname=gits sac&s=xxxxx
 < 322 MULTIPLE FILES FOUND
 Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX|26||1-26|1-26,S2-S27|||V-A|S2-S27|LMF|20-26|KAA|1-26|AonE|1-19|Anime-MX|1-3,9-20

Comments:
It would probably be ok to add this, but note that it would be a hassle to fetch a complete mylist. I mean, you can already do this with your own list, but it takes a lot of time because of the datagram rate limit. (It would take at least 8h to fetch my own list). And that is usage we don't really want @ udp api. And a command that returns all the data at once will, of course, not be allowed. So, in other words, if you just want to check if a friend has a specific file, or what files per anime (multiple files found), then ok, but view and browse a specified user's list just as I can with the web interface is not likely to happen/be allowed.--Epoximator 11:29, 4 June 2006 (CEST)

What I'm really interested in is maintaining local dbs of 3/4 user lists and having a client automatically update them every 2/3 weeks. We use this to coordinate information within our country regarding who has what =p. But what we're interested in is a way to be able to selectively retrieve the entire list by some index. OFcourse if its slow, then it makes sense to maintain it locally and just look for changes. The other thing I really want is to somehow retrieve with mylist file data (or user list file data), the date at which something was added to the list. (I understand this information exists). The idea here is we can locally query these lists for files added within the last 2/3 months. --path 11:53, 25 June 2006 (IST)

That's really not wanted usage for this api. Have you thought about the possibility to use mylist export? You know you can make you own export template and get all the info you want at once? A command that query all changes (lids) within the last 2/3 months (or even weeks) is not going to be added. --Epoximator 12:36, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

NOTIFY COMMANDS

NOTIFYGET: Get Notification/Message

Feature request: When you get the notification you only find the anime name and the anime id in it. It would be better if you can also get the group id or the group name with this notification, so you know which group has released the movie. It is a headache to find the groupname in the HTTP page, if you have in mind that when more than one group release a movie in one day and you have to find out which you wanna have...

Command String:

• NOTIFYGET type={str type}&id={int4 id}

Possible Replies:
when type = N

• 293 NOTIFYGET

{int4 aid}|{int4 type}|{int2 count}|{str anime_name}

{int4 date}|{int4 gid}

{int4 date}|{int4 gid}

• 393 NO SUCH ENTRY

Info:

• gid

The group id. In more than one line you can read through the groups which have released a movie. With this information you don't have to read through the whole HTTP file on the anidb page to get to the information.

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