🎌 AniList Anime and Manga Scraper

🚀 Search anime, manga, light novels, and one-shots from AniList's catalog of 200,000+ titles.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-06 · 📊 40 fields per record · 200,000+ titles · anime, manga, light novels, one-shots · cover, banner, score, popularity, genres, studios

The AniList Anime and Manga Scraper searches AniList's catalog of 200,000+ titles including anime, manga, light novels, and one-shots. Output includes English/romaji/native titles, cover image, banner, format, status, episodes or chapters, season, year, average score, popularity, genres, tags, studios, and synopsis.

AniList is a community-driven catalog with rich tagging and multilingual titles. Filters run server-side, so a single run can isolate the top 100 most-popular anime, every Studio Ghibli film, all currently-airing series in the Spring 2026 season, or the top-rated romance manga.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Anime/manga app developers, recommendation engines, content marketers, weeb communities, niche-content researchers	Building anime discovery apps, recommendation engines, content for fan blogs and newsletters, training niche recommendation models

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📋 What the AniList Anime and Manga Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🎬 Anime or manga. Switch type with one input.
• 📁 Format filter. TV series, movie, OVA, ONA, special, manga, light novel, one-shot.
• 🟢 Status filter. Releasing, finished, not-yet-released, cancelled, hiatus.
• 📅 Season filter. Pick winter/spring/summer/fall + year.
• 🏷️ Genre + sort. Filter by genre and sort by popularity, score, trending, newest.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering removes the parser-and-pagination work from your team and keeps your dataset fresh on every run.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan up to 1,000,000.
query	string	"naruto"	Title search across catalog.
type	string	"ANIME"	`ANIME` or `MANGA`.
format	string	""	TV, MOVIE, OVA, ONA, MANGA, NOVEL, ONE_SHOT, etc.
status	string	""	FINISHED, RELEASING, NOT_YET_RELEASED, CANCELLED, HIATUS.
season	string	""	WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, FALL (anime only).
seasonYear	integer	0	Year for the season filter.
genre	string	""	Single genre filter.
sort	string	"POPULARITY_DESC"	POPULARITY_DESC, SCORE_DESC, TRENDING_DESC, START_DATE_DESC.

Example: top 100 most-popular anime.

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "type": "ANIME",
    "sort": "POPULARITY_DESC"
}

Example: Spring 2026 anime, releasing.

{
    "maxItems": 200,
    "type": "ANIME",
    "season": "SPRING",
    "seasonYear": 2026,
    "status": "RELEASING"
}

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📊 Output

Each record contains 40 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🖼️ coverUrl	string	"https://s4.anilist.co/file/anilistcdn/.../bx20-1.jpg"
🌅 bannerImage	string	null
🆔 anilistId	number	20
🆔 idMal	number	null
📛 titleEnglish	string	null
📛 titleRomaji	string	"Naruto"
📛 titleNative	string	"ナルト"
📁 format	string	"TV"
🟢 status	string	"FINISHED"
🔢 episodes	number	null
⏱️ duration	number	null
📅 season	string	null
📅 seasonYear	number	null
⭐ averageScore	number	null
📈 popularity	number	850000
🏷️ genres	array	["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"]
🎬 studiosText	string	"Pierrot"
🔗 anilistUrl	string	"https://anilist.co/anime/20"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎌	200,000+ titles. Anime, manga, light novels, one-shots in a single Actor.
🌐	Multilingual. English, romaji, and native (Japanese/Chinese/Korean) titles.
📊	Popularity + score. Rank by community signal across decades of titles.
🎬	Studios + tags. Rich metadata for recommendation and discovery.
⚡	Fast. 100 records in under 30 seconds.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ This Actor	$5 free credit	200,000+ titles	Live per run	type, format, status, season, genre, sort	⚡ 2 min
MyAnimeList scraping	Risky	Similar	Live	Limited	🐢 Compliance
Kitsu API	Free + key	Smaller	Live	Yes	🐢 API key
Manual AniList browse	Free	Manual	Live	Web filters	🕒 Manual

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the AniList Anime and Manga Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick your filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📱 Anime Apps Catalog enrichment with covers and scores Discovery and recommendation features Watchlist sync Cross-platform ID joins (MAL, Kitsu)	📰 Content & Fandom Top-anime newsletters Seasonal preview content Studio retrospectives Genre deep-dives
🤖 Recommendation Engines Train similar-anime embeddings Build niche recommendation models Genre-based discovery features Tag-aware ranking	🎬 Niche Research Studio production trends Genre evolution analysis Manga-to-anime adaptation tracking Season-over-season catalog growth

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🔌 Automating AniList Anime and Manga Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Hourly, daily, or weekly refreshes keep downstream databases in sync automatically.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Anime industry research Cross-cultural media studies Reproducible catalog snapshots Course material on Japanese media	🎨 Personal and creative Personal watchlists and trackers Side projects on anime data Fan-blog content Hobbyist databases
🤝 Non-profit and civic Cultural cataloging Translation and accessibility projects Open metadata contributions Niche-community resources	🧪 Experimentation Train recommender models on tags Prototype anime-aware agents Build genre classifiers Test discovery UI concepts

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Provide a query, type, and optional filters. The Actor queries the AniList catalog and emits one record per title.

📊 How many fields per record?

40, including covers, banners, multilingual titles, format, status, episodes/chapters, season, scores, popularity, genres, tags, studios.

🎌 Does it cover light novels?

Yes. Pass type MANGA and format NOVEL or ONE_SHOT.

📅 Can I find currently-airing anime?

Yes. Set status to RELEASING or pass season and seasonYear.

⭐ How are scores normalized?

AniList uses a 0-100 average. averageScore is the community-weighted aggregate.

🔁 Can I schedule runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to track new releases, score changes, or seasonal premieres.

⚖️ Is this data public?

Yes. AniList publishes its catalog under permissive terms. Only public metadata is collected.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free plan covers preview runs. A paid plan unlocks higher item counts and scheduling.

🆘 What if a run fails?

Apify retries transient errors. Partial datasets are preserved.

📚 Does it include manga chapters?

Yes for completed series. The chapters field is null for ongoing manga.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

AniList Anime and Manga Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by AniList, MyAnimeList, or any anime/manga publisher or studio. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.