MangaDex Titles Search Scraper

This actor enables you to search and discover manga titles on MangaDex.org with comprehensive information extraction. Simply provide a search URL and the actor will automatically paginate through results to gather detailed data about each manga title.

Features

• Search-based Discovery: Search for manga titles using MangaDex's search functionality
• Automatic Pagination: Automatically navigates through multiple pages of results
• Rich Title Information: Extracts comprehensive details about each manga including:
  • Title name and URL
  • Cover image
  • Publication status
  • Genre tags and categories
  • Rating score
  • View count
  • Chapter count
  • Description synopsis
  • Comment count
• Multi-page Results: Efficiently handles large result sets with configurable limits

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchUrl	string	Yes	MangaDex search URL to scrape
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of titles to fetch

Output

The output is a list of manga title objects, each containing:

• mangaId: Unique identifier for the manga
• title: Name of the manga title
• url: URL to the manga page
• coverImage: URL of the cover image
• status: Publication status (Completed, Ongoing, etc.)
• tags: Array of genre tags and categories
• rating: Average rating score
• views: Number of views
• chapters: Total chapter count
• commentCount: Number of comments
• description: Synopsis or description of the manga
• searchUrl: The original search URL used
• scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the data was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "mangaId": "b399c0bd-014f-4274-b728-838ca739cacb",
    "title": "Ai - Hikari to Mizu no Daphne",
    "url": "/title/b399c0bd-014f-4274-b728-838ca739cacb/ai",
    "coverImage": "https://mangadex.org/covers/b399c0bd-014f-4274-b728-838ca739cacb/45af5b28-5994-445f-86f4-9161ed5e0bc1.jpg.512.jpg",
    "status": "Completed",
    "tags": ["Erotica", "Sci-Fi", "Action", "Comedy", "Crime", "Adventure", "Military"],
    "rating": "7.70",
    "views": "N/A",
    "chapters": "342",
    "commentCount": "6",
    "description": "Daphne in the Brilliant Blue take place in a near future in which the remaining population lives in underwater cities...",
    "searchUrl": "https://mangadex.org/search?q=ai&tab=titles",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-05-29T02:10:44.350Z"
  },
  ...
]

Use Cases

• Manga discovery and research
• Building manga databases and catalogs
• Tracking manga updates and new releases
• Genre-based manga recommendations
• Manga popularity analysis
• Collection building and management

Notes

• Results are paginated automatically until reaching the end or max items limit
• All metadata including ratings and tags are extracted from each title
• The actor handles both completed and ongoing series
• Images and links are provided as full URLs when available