MyAnimeList Scraper

Why This Scraper?

• Walks MyAnimeList search results forward through every page, not just page 1.
• Covers all five ranking charts (top, airing, upcoming, most popular, most favourited) for anime and manga.
• Enriches records with related entries, character and staff previews, voice actors, paginated reviews and full stats.
• Reads pasted detail-page links, anime and manga mixed, auto-detected.
• Resume from a previous run and incremental monitoring are built in.
• Keeps the main dataset to one row per anime or manga, including nested review and preview lists.
• Pushes each record the moment it is ready, so a stopped run keeps its data.

Data You Get

One record per anime or manga. With fetchDetails on (the default), the record also contains the entry's three review previews by default, plus the characters and voice actors shown there, staff, and related entries. Set maxReviews above 3 to read paginated review pages, or 0 to follow every available review page. reviewsComplete tells you whether the collection reached the end of the visible pages. Some titles report more reviews than their pages expose; reviewCountGap records that difference. The character and staff lists remain previews. Other detail fields include Japanese title, manga volumes and chapters, synonyms, favorites, licensors, producers, demographics, serialization, premiere, broadcast, source, duration, rating and review sentiment counts (reviewBreakdown).

Field	Always	Notes
id	yes	MyAnimeList's numeric id.
mediaType	yes	anime or manga.
title	yes	Main title.
url	yes	Detail-page URL.
type	most rows	TV, Movie, Manga, and so on.
score	when scored	Weighted community score.
members	details	Member count.
scoredBy	details	Number of users behind the weighted score.
reviewCount	details	Total review count shown on the entry.
reviews	details	Review text, author, date, recommendation, rating and URL; three previews by default or more with maxReviews.
reviewsFetched	details	Number of reviews actually returned.
reviewsComplete	details	True only when the review pages reached their end.
reviewPagesFetched	details	Dedicated review pages successfully read; zero with the default previews.
reviewCountGap	complete review pulls	Reported total minus reviews available in the pages; null for a capped or interrupted pull.
characters	details	Character previews with role and nested voiceActors where available.
voiceActors	anime details	Flat list of voice actors from the character previews.
staff	anime details	Staff previews with name and role.
relatedEntries	details	Related anime and manga with relationship, title and URL.
openingThemes	anime details	Opening song names.
endingThemes	anime details	Ending song names.
genres	details	Genre list.
themes	details	Theme list.
synopsis	details	Full description text.
changeType	incremental	NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED or EXPIRED.
firstSeenAt	incremental	First time this actor saw the record.

How to Use

Pick a mode, set the scope, run. Search walks every result page forward; charts walk the ranking; URL mode reads the links you paste. Example 1, anime search with details:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "mediaType": "anime",
  "searchTerms": ["space opera"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Example 2, the currently-airing chart, listing fields only:

{
  "mode": "charts",
  "mediaType": "anime",
  "chartKind": "airing",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "fetchDetails": false
}

Example 3, pasted links of both kinds in one run:

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": [
    "https://myanimelist.net/anime/5114/Fullmetal_Alchemist__Brotherhood",
    "https://myanimelist.net/manga/2/Berserk"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 0
}

Example 4, recurring incremental monitoring of one chart:

{
  "mode": "charts",
  "mediaType": "manga",
  "chartKind": "top",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "emitExpired": true
}

A genuinely empty search is reported honestly as an empty result, never as a failure. Profile pages (user lists) are not scraped: they are account-scoped.

Input Parameters

Input	What it does
mode	Keyword search, Ranking charts, or Paste URLs.
mediaType	Anime or manga (search and charts; URL mode auto-detects).
searchTerms	Keywords; each is its own walk, merged and de-duplicated.
chartKind	top, airing, upcoming, bypopularity or favorite.
urls	Detail-page links to read directly.
fetchDetails	Read every record's own page (adds the detail-enrichment surcharge).
maxReviews	Reviews per record: 3 previews by default, a larger finite limit, or 0 for all available pages. Requires detail fetching; large histories take longer.
maxItems	The one finite cap (default 20). 0 means no limit.
maxPages	Pages per scope. 0 (default) walks to the natural end.
resumeFromRunId	Previous run or dataset id; the run returns only new records.
incrementalMode	Classify changes across scheduled runs of the same scope.
stateKey	Optional campaign name for the incremental baseline.
emitUnchanged	Also return unchanged records (bills extra rows).
emitExpired	Also return records no longer found, after a complete scan (bills extra rows).
proxy	Optional connection settings.
mcpConnectors	Connector ids to also export results into.
notionParentPageUrl	Parent page for the Notion export.
maxNotifyListings	Maximum items per connector export.

Output Example

The dataset holds one record per row; the overview view shows the headline columns. Fictional sample:

{
  "id": 123456,
  "mediaType": "anime",
  "title": "Sample Anime: Legend of the Test Fields",
  "type": "TV",
  "episodes": 12,
  "score": 8.61,
  "scoredBy": 4200,
  "ranked": 114,
  "members": 1234567,
  "reviewCount": 12,
  "reviews": [{"author": "sample_user", "date": "Jan 1, 2026", "recommendation": "Recommended", "rating": 9, "text": "An illustrative review preview."}],
  "reviewsFetched": 1,
  "reviewsComplete": false,
  "reviewPagesFetched": 0,
  "reviewCountGap": null,
  "characters": [{"id": 100001, "name": "Sample Character", "role": "Main", "voiceActors": [{"id": 200001, "name": "Sample Performer", "language": "Japanese"}]}],
  "voiceActors": [{"id": 200001, "name": "Sample Performer", "language": "Japanese", "characterId": 100001}],
  "relatedEntries": [{"id": 100002, "mediaType": "manga", "title": "Sample Source Manga", "relation": "Adaptation"}],
  "staff": [{"id": 200002, "name": "Sample Director", "role": "Director"}],
  "openingThemes": ["Sample Opening"],
  "endingThemes": ["Sample Ending"],
  "genres": ["Action", "Adventure"],
  "studios": ["Sample Studio"],
  "synopsis": "A sample synopsis body.",
  "url": "https://myanimelist.net/anime/123456/Sample_Anime",
  "changeType": "NEW"
}

Plan Requirement

An Apify account is required to run this actor. Detail enrichment adds a per-record charge only when an enriched record is returned. Each review in a returned record adds one review-enrichment event, including the three default previews. The review event is priced per review item.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

After a run, results can also be piped into your apps: mcpConnectors names the connector ids, notionParentPageUrl sets the Notion parent page, and maxNotifyListings caps items per connector (default 50, dataset unchanged). Connector export needs the connector authorized in Apify; the dataset is written regardless.