anilist-crawler

Crawl data from AniList API and store as json in file system, MariaDB, or elasticsearch.

Requirements

• Node.js 18.0+
• MariaDB 10.5+ (optional)
• elasticsearch 7.0+ (optional)

How to use

1. Clone this repository

2. npm install

3. copy .env.example and rename to .env

4. Configure .env for your mariaDB, or elasticsearch, leave any of DB_HOST, ES_HOST, FS_DIR empty if you don't need it

Examples

Fetch anime ID 123

node index.js --anime 123

Fetch all anime in page 240

node index.js --page 240

Fetch all anime from page 240 to 244 (inclusive)

node index.js --page 240-244

Fetch all anime from page 240 to the last page

node index.js --page 240-

Sometimes anime would be deleted from AniList, but it still exists locally in your database. You can use --clean to get a clean copy every time you start crawling.

node index.js --clean --page 240-

For details of AniList API please visit https://github.com/AniList/ApiV2-GraphQL-Docs/

You can try the interactive query tool here. https://anilist.co/graphiql

Notes

• API request limit exceed (HTTP 429) has not been handled yet. With 60 requests/min per IP, it is unlikely to hit the limit with complex query.