🎴 Kitsu Anime & Manga Scraper

🚀 Turn any anime or manga search into a clean, structured catalog in seconds. Search Kitsu by keyword and pull posters, titles, ratings, ranks, and synopses for every match.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-04 · 📊 23 fields per record · Anime and manga catalogs · Powered by the public Kitsu database

Looking up anime and manga details one page at a time is slow. This Actor lets you search the Kitsu catalog by a text query, choose anime or manga, and collect every matching title with its poster image, canonical and localized titles, rating, popularity rank, status, air or publication dates, and full synopsis.

It covers both the anime side (TV, movies, OVA, ONA, specials, music) and the manga side (manga, novels, one shots, doujin), so you can build a media database, enrich a recommendation app, or research a franchise without copy and paste.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Anime and manga app builders	Populate a title database with posters and ratings
Data analysts and researchers	Study ratings, popularity, and release trends
Content creators and bloggers	Pull synopses and artwork for write ups
Recommendation engine developers	Seed a catalog with structured metadata
Hobbyists and collectors	Track favorites, ranks, and release dates

📋 What the Kitsu Anime & Manga Scraper does

• Searches the Kitsu anime or manga catalog by any text query.
• Returns every matching title with a poster image first.
• Captures canonical, English, and Japanese titles for each record.
• Pulls rating, rating rank, popularity rank, status, and age rating.
• Includes start and end dates, episode count, chapter count, and volume count where available.
• Adds the full synopsis, favorites count, user count, and a cover image.
• Lets you sort by relevance, highest rated, most popular, newest, or oldest.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Key	Type	Required	Description
🔎 Search Query	query	string	Yes	Text to search for. Matches against titles.
🎬 Media Type	mediaType	select	Yes	Search anime or manga.
🔢 Max Items	maxItems	integer	No	Cap on records returned. Free plan is limited to 10.
↕️ Sort Order	sort	select	No	Relevance, highest rated, most popular, newest, or oldest.

Example 1 — Highest rated anime for a franchise

{
    "query": "naruto",
    "mediaType": "anime",
    "maxItems": 6,
    "sort": "-averageRating"
}

Example 2 — Manga search by title

{
    "query": "berserk",
    "mediaType": "manga",
    "maxItems": 5
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Kitsu matches your query against title text, so broad terms return many results while exact titles return the closest match first. Some fields are conditional. Ongoing series have a null end date, manga episode counts do not apply, and titles that are not yet ranked have a null rating or popularity rank.

📊 Output

Each record follows this schema. Field order is consistent across anime and manga, with anime adding episodeCount and manga adding chapterCount and volumeCount.

Field	Key	Description
🖼 Image	imageUrl	Poster image URL (highest available resolution)
📌 Title	title	Canonical title
🎬 Media Type	mediaType	anime or manga
📡 Status	status	finished, current, upcoming, and similar
🔗 URL	url	Kitsu page for the title
🆔 ID	id	Kitsu record ID
🔧 Slug	slug	URL slug
🇬🇧 English Title	englishTitle	English title when available
🇯🇵 Japanese Title	japaneseTitle	Japanese title when available
🏷 Subtype	subtype	TV, movie, OVA, manga, novel, and similar
📝 Synopsis	synopsis	Full description
🔞 Age Rating	ageRating	G, PG, R, R18 when available
⭐ Average Rating	averageRating	Average score as a percentage string
🏆 Rating Rank	ratingRank	Rank by rating, null when unranked
🔥 Popularity Rank	popularityRank	Rank by popularity, null when unranked
📅 Start Date	startDate	First air or publication date
🏁 End Date	endDate	Final date, null for ongoing
📺 Episode Count	episodeCount	Anime only, null when unknown
📚 Chapter Count	chapterCount	Manga only, null when unknown
📦 Volume Count	volumeCount	Manga only, null when unknown
❤️ Favorites Count	favoritesCount	Number of users who favorited the title
👥 User Count	userCount	Number of users tracking the title
🎨 Cover Image	coverImageUrl	Wide cover image when available
🕒 Scraped At	scrapedAt	Collection timestamp
❌ Error	error	Null on success

Real sample — anime (Naruto: Shippuuden)

{
    "imageUrl": "https://media.kitsu.app/anime/poster_images/1555/original.jpg",
    "title": "Naruto: Shippuuden",
    "mediaType": "anime",
    "status": "finished",
    "url": "https://kitsu.io/anime/naruto-shippuden",
    "id": "1555",
    "slug": "naruto-shippuden",
    "englishTitle": "Naruto: Shippuden",
    "japaneseTitle": "ナルト- 疾風伝",
    "subtype": "TV",
    "ageRating": "PG",
    "averageRating": "84.06",
    "ratingRank": 55,
    "popularityRank": 28,
    "startDate": "2007-02-15",
    "endDate": "2017-03-23",
    "episodeCount": 500,
    "favoritesCount": 5737,
    "userCount": 214319,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:28:26.291Z",
    "error": null
}

Real sample — anime special (ROAD OF NARUTO)

{
    "imageUrl": "https://media.kitsu.app/anime/46581/poster_image/3a081de040827280c49233c5c6e0dfff.png",
    "title": "ROAD OF NARUTO",
    "mediaType": "anime",
    "status": "finished",
    "url": "https://kitsu.io/anime/road-of-naruto",
    "id": "46581",
    "slug": "road-of-naruto",
    "subtype": "special",
    "averageRating": "82.76",
    "ratingRank": 121,
    "popularityRank": 1678,
    "startDate": "2022-10-03",
    "endDate": "2022-10-03",
    "episodeCount": 1,
    "favoritesCount": 9,
    "userCount": 9880,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:28:26.348Z",
    "error": null
}

Real sample — manga (Berserk)

{
    "imageUrl": "https://media.kitsu.app/manga/8/poster_image/67d602c20d1bf0eeb43e1a363c59ed5b.jpg",
    "title": "Berserk",
    "mediaType": "manga",
    "status": "current",
    "url": "https://kitsu.io/manga/berserk",
    "id": "8",
    "slug": "berserk",
    "japaneseTitle": "ベルセルク",
    "subtype": "manga",
    "ageRating": "R",
    "averageRating": "84.89",
    "ratingRank": 5,
    "popularityRank": 17,
    "startDate": "1989-08-25",
    "endDate": null,
    "chapterCount": null,
    "volumeCount": 0,
    "favoritesCount": 3991,
    "userCount": 58027,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:28:49.569Z",
    "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Poster image comes first in every record, ready to display in a gallery or card.
• Both anime and manga from a single search input.
• Localized titles in English and Japanese alongside the canonical title.
• Ratings, rating rank, and popularity rank for ranking and comparison.
• Honest fields. Conditional values are returned as null rather than fabricated.
• No API key, no login, no proxy setup required.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Coverage	Images	Structured fields	Effort
This Actor	Anime and manga	Poster and cover	23 fields	Run and collect
Manual lookup on Kitsu	One title at a time	Yes	Copy by hand	High
Generic web crawler	Whole pages	Mixed	Needs parsing	High
Building your own client	Depends	Depends	You map every field	Very high

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the Kitsu Anime & Manga Scraper and enter a search query.
3. Choose anime or manga, set a sort order, and pick how many records you want.
4. Click Start and watch records stream into the dataset.
5. Browse the results in the table view or pull them into your own app.

💼 Business use cases

Media and entertainment apps

Need	How this helps
Seed a catalog	Pull posters, titles, and ratings in one run
Keep status current	Refresh ongoing versus finished status

Analytics and research

Need	How this helps
Study popularity	Compare rating rank and popularity rank
Track release trends	Use start and end dates across titles

Content and marketing

Need	How this helps
Write reviews and roundups	Grab synopses and artwork quickly
Build franchise pages	Collect every title under a keyword

Recommendation systems

Need	How this helps
Feature engineering	Use ratings, favorites, and user counts
Content similarity	Match on subtype, age rating, and synopsis

🔌 Automating Kitsu Anime & Manga Scraper

Connect runs to the tools you already use:

• Make and Zapier to trigger runs and route records into sheets or databases.
• Slack to post new search results to a channel.
• Airbyte to sync the dataset into a warehouse.
• GitHub Actions to schedule recurring searches.
• Google Drive to archive each run as a stored result.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: analyze how ratings and popularity shift across a franchise.
• Personal: build your own watchlist or reading list with artwork.
• Non-profit: power a community library or fan wiki with clean metadata.
• Experimentation: train or test a recommendation model on real titles.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant

Paste your collected records into an assistant and ask away:

• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Perplexity
• Microsoft Copilot

Try prompts like "rank these anime by popularity" or "summarize the franchise from these synopses".

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Does this work for both anime and manga? Yes. Pick the media type in the input and the search runs against that catalog.

Do I need a Kitsu API key? No. The Kitsu catalog used here is public and needs no key or login.

How does the search match titles? Kitsu matches your query against title text, including English and Japanese titles, and returns the closest matches first.

Why is the end date null on some records? Ongoing series do not have an end date yet, so that field is returned as null.

Why are some ratings or ranks null? Titles that have not gathered enough activity are not ranked, so rating rank and popularity rank can be null.

What image do I get? The poster image comes first as imageUrl, and a wider cover image is included as coverImageUrl when available.

Can I limit the number of results? Yes. Set the max items value. Free plans are capped at 10 records.

How do I sort the results? Choose relevance, highest rated, most popular, newest, or oldest in the input.

Does it include the synopsis? Yes. The full synopsis text is included for each title.

How fresh is the data? Each run reads the Kitsu catalog live, so values reflect the catalog at run time.

Is the data accurate? Values come straight from Kitsu. Conditional fields are returned as null rather than guessed.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify scheduling or any of the automation options above.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Records are available through the dataset, so you can pull them into a spreadsheet, a database, an internal tool, or any service that reads from an Apify dataset.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Kitsu. Only publicly available data is collected.