🎌 MyAnimeList Scraper

🚀 Export anime and manga rankings, scores, genres, and synopsis from MyAnimeList in seconds. Pull the complete top list or search by title — no API key, no login, no rate-limit headaches.

The MyAnimeList Scraper pulls structured anime and manga data from the world's largest anime/manga database via the public Jikan API. It returns 23 fields per record, including title, score, rank, popularity, genres, studios, synopsis, airing dates, and episode count. Data is collected in real time on every run.

The catalog covers tens of thousands of anime and manga titles spanning every genre, studio, and era. This Actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under a minute. No manual clicking, no copy-paste, no data engineering required.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Anime fans, data scientists, recommendation system builders, content researchers, entertainment analysts, otaku hobbyists	Recommendation engines, anime research, genre analysis, studio comparisons, score tracking, content cataloging

📋 What the MyAnimeList Scraper does

Two core workflows in a single run:

• 🏆 Top list export. Fetch the all-time highest-rated anime or manga, ordered by community score.
• 🔍 Search by title. Search for specific shows or manga like "Naruto", "One Piece", or "Attack on Titan".

Each record includes title (English + Japanese), score, rank, popularity, member count, genres, studios, synopsis, source material, duration, age rating, and airing dates.

💡 Why it matters: MyAnimeList hosts one of the most comprehensive anime and manga databases on the internet. Scraping it manually is tedious and fragile. This Actor wraps the Jikan API cleanly and gives you structured, downloadable data in seconds.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: airedFrom, airedTo, duration, episodes, genres, imageUrl, malId, members, popularity, rank, rating, score, scoredBy, scrapedAt, source, status, studios, synopsis, title, titleJapanese, type, url. All 22 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: The Jikan API enforces a 3 requests/second rate limit. The scraper respects this automatically with a 350ms delay between requests. For large maxItems values, the run may take a few minutes.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit on Apify.
2. Open the MyAnimeList Scraper actor page.
3. Set contentType to anime or manga.
4. Optionally enter a searchQuery (leave blank for top list).
5. Set maxItems (free: up to 10, paid: up to 1,000,000).
6. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
7. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

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This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to MyAnimeList or the Jikan API team. All data is publicly accessible and retrieved via the open Jikan API.

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