AniList Anime & Manga Scraper

Scrape anime and manga data from AniList - the community-built database tracking ~20K anime and ~50K manga with scores, popularity stats, favourites, studios, genres and airing schedules.

Features

• 🔍 Keyword search - find anime or manga by title keyword (relevance-ranked)
• 📊 Charts - trending now, most popular, top rated, most favourited
• 🔗 URL / ID mode - paste anilist.co/anime/<id>, anilist.co/manga/<id> links or bare numeric ids
• 📚 Rich records - romaji/English/native titles, average + mean score, popularity, favourites, genres, main studios, format, status, episode/chapter/volume counts, episode duration, season, start/end dates, next-airing episode + timestamp, clean-text synopsis, cover art
• 📄 Forward pagination - walks result pages automatically (50 per page)
• 🔁 Resume - paste a previous run ID to continue a large pull without re-collecting
• 📈 Incremental monitoring - schedule it daily and get only NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED records; optional EXPIRED detection for media that dropped out of the tracked scope
• 🔌 MCP connectors - optionally pipe results into Notion (page per item) or other connected apps

Input

Field	Type	Description
Mode	Select	Keyword search, Charts, or Paste URLs or ids
Media type	Select	Anime or Manga
Search terms	List	Keywords (Search mode)
Chart	Select	Trending / Popular / Top rated / Most favourited (Charts mode)
AniList URLs or ids	List	Links or bare ids (URL mode)
Max records	Integer	Stop after N records (0 = unlimited)
Max pages	Integer	Pages walked per search or chart (0 = unlimited)
Include adult	Boolean	Off by default
Resume from a previous run	Text	Prior run/dataset ID to skip already-collected records
Incremental mode	Boolean	NEW/UPDATED/REAPPEARED for scheduled runs
State key	Text	Name a monitoring campaign
Emit unchanged / Emit expired	Boolean	Also return UNCHANGED / EXPIRED rows
MCP connectors	List	Optional export into your apps

Output

One dataset item per media record:

{
  "id": 154587,
  "idMal": 52991,
  "url": "https://anilist.co/anime/154587",
  "titleRomaji": "Sousou no Frieren",
  "titleEnglish": "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End",
  "titleNative": "葬送のフリーレン",
  "format": "TV",
  "status": "FINISHED",
  "episodes": 28,
  "durationMin": 24,
  "averageScore": 87,
  "meanScore": 87,
  "popularity": 623451,
  "favourites": 128444,
  "genres": ["Adventure", "Drama", "Fantasy"],
  "studios": ["Madhouse"],
  "season": "FALL",
  "seasonYear": 2023,
  "startDate": "2023-09-29",
  "endDate": "2024-03-22",
  "nextAiringEpisode": null,
  "nextAiringAt": null,
  "coverImage": "https://s4.anilist.co/file/anilistcdn/media/anime/cover/large/bx154587-....jpg",
  "description": "After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King..."
}

Use cases

• Anime/manga catalogues with up-to-date community scores and popularity
• Trend monitoring: what is rising in the weekly trending chart
• Release tracking: next-airing episode numbers and timestamps
• Recommendation datasets: genres, studios, scores, favourites together

Pricing

You are billed per dataset record plus a small actor-start fee. See the Apify Console pricing panel for current rates. Incremental mode suppresses unchanged rows, so scheduled monitoring bills only what changed.