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Ideas for a federated anime tracker (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14934313

Hello Lemmings.

I will be attempting to make a federated anime tracker this summer, but I am not quite sure what features people would want and how I would get the details for animes, mangas, etc.

For the latter: What I thought was to either scrape other anime websites continuosly in the background, but this most likely is against the ToS of every anime tracking website, such as AniList or MAL. (I actually asked anidb.net for special access to their DB because apparently you can request access to it, but I've been left on read by the two staff members) My second idea was to make it an anime tracker website where animes are only user-submitted. And the user submissions would be approved by assigned moderators. However, I think this would be quite inconvenient. I'd like to get your opinions and/or ideas for this.

For the former: So if you have any requests or suggestions, please drop it down in the comments section.

Thanks in advance.

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[โ€“] asceticism@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds cool good luck with the project! Imo scrapers are hard to get to work well or might still miss stuff. I would give people the chance to submit their own snow information, maybe limit it to their profile until moderation approval then put it out on the general list. Also I'm assuming you would have all the normal tracker stuff but I know the ability to log when I have watched something or rewatched something would be important to me. Like the actual dates. The SO and I like to review our show history and talke about it.

[โ€“] asceticism@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Also feel free to bounce ideas off me!