Jikan cannot understand the new modern About Me sections

[PythonCoderAS]

For user profiles utilizing the "Modern About Me" feature, the users/<user>/about endpoint returns a null response.

{
  "data": {
    "about": null
  }
}

It would be ideal if modern About Mes could be scraped and returned, and especially if it could be a JSON object containing the components.

[nerg4l]

Could you share a MAL profile link which uses the "new modern About Me sections"?

[PythonCoderAS]

Could you share a MAL profile link which uses the "new modern About Me sections"?

https://myanimelist.net/profile/ManWild

[irfan-dahir]

Played around a bit with this: https://mxj.myanimelist.net/about-me/

There are a total of 3 ranking sections possible. Ranking items can be in the range of 1-10

And you can link them too

There's an option for this too so perhaps it's in the HTML somewhere as well - we could return a bool.

Will check out it in detail later.

[irfan-dahir]

As for the structure; possibly the following:

• Main
  • cover_image_url
  • title
  • introduction
• anime
  • watching this season (Array of AnimeMeta)
  • last completed (Array of AnimeMeta)
• manga (not sure if it exists? or I'm missing it)
  • property_name (Array of MangaMeta)
• rankings (Array of Ranking Objects)
  • title
  • description
  • items
    • image_url
    • url
• modern (bool)

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As for compatibility with the classic ver. we could wrap the new stuff in a property I'm not sure what to call 🤔

[kyoyacchi]

Any updates on this?

[irfan-dahir]

@kyoyacchi It's been added to the roadmap. We're currently working towards improving some existing features before we can move towards adding new features.