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

Requirements

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

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