Add AniList <-> MAL links in anime/manga pages

[darklinkpower]

Having a link added would be useful to go from one site to another.

I think it would make sense to add the links above the external site links

[Karmesinrot]

There is already a similar feature under "Search", click on [show] then click on the respective site you'd want to search on.

[darklinkpower]

I'm aware of it, but with search it, well, opens a search url and you still need to pick the correct entry in the search, while this suggestion is to already put the correct link there.

[Karmesinrot]

That would require addtional entries to the database and those entries(along with site links) are checked manually hence it's difficult to maintain.

[darklinkpower]

Not really, the AniList has in it's database the MAL ids that correspond which each entry and its API can be used for matching. There are several examples of scripts that do this.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/369792-maltoani https://github.com/pilar6195/AniList-Extras

[henrik9999]

Yep @Karmesinrot our database has nothing to do with this

[Karmesinrot]

Ah I see.

[lolamtisch]

@darklinkpower With the new release we added this. But only for relations we could easily get. Mal links to Anilist Anilist links to Mal Kitsu links to Mal and Anilist Simkl links to Mal

I will keep this issue open as we plan add all relations relations someday in the future.

[darklinkpower]

Thank you very much, this is great!

[Pikcee]

Can we also add Mangaupdates link in AniList/MAL, it would be even much more useful than the MAL/AniList.

hopefully this isn't off-topic, otherwise please let me know to open a new issue.