AniList Anime & Manga Scraper 🌸

Trending anime, top-rated manga, seasonal charts and title search — straight from AniList's open API. No API key, no login, no browser.

Pull clean, structured anime & manga data from AniList: what's trending right now, the highest-rated series of all time, the most popular titles, full seasonal charts (Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall of any year), or a simple title search. Perfect for anime recommendation apps, seasonal-chart dashboards, Discord bots, tracking tools and research.

Powered by AniList's public GraphQL API — open data, no key required. Fully testable out of the box.

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What you can build with it

• 🔥 Trending tracker — snapshot what's hot each week and feed a "what to watch now" list.
• ⭐ Top-100 rankings — highest-scored anime or manga of all time.
• 🌸 Seasonal charts — every show airing in Summer 2026 with live episode countdowns.
• 🔎 Title lookup — resolve a name to scores, studios, genres, artwork and AniList/MyAnimeList IDs.
• 🤖 Discord / Telegram bots — power an "!anime
• 📊 Recommendation engines — filter by genre + minimum score to seed a catalog.

Features

• ✅ No API key — AniList's open GraphQL endpoint, works instantly.
• ✅ Anime and manga — one Actor, both libraries.
• ✅ 6 modes — trending, top-rated, most-popular, most-favourited, seasonal, search.
• ✅ Rich records — scores, popularity, favourites, genres, tags, studios, cover art, next-episode countdown, AniList + MyAnimeList IDs.
• ✅ Filters — genre and minimum score on top of any mode.
• ✅ Low-maintenance — stable public API, one clean record per title.

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Input

Field	Description
Mode	trending / top-rated / most-popular / most-favourited / seasonal / search.
Anime or Manga	Which library to pull from.
Search title	Free-text title search (Search mode).
Season / Season year	e.g. Summer + 2026 (Seasonal mode).
Genre	Optional filter, e.g. Action, Romance, Sports.
Minimum score	Optional 0–100 average-score floor.
Max results	How many titles to return.

Example — trending anime right now

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "mediaType": "ANIME",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example — Summer 2026 seasonal chart

{
  "mode": "seasonal",
  "mediaType": "ANIME",
  "season": "SUMMER",
  "seasonYear": 2026,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Example — top-rated Sports anime

{
  "mode": "top-rated",
  "mediaType": "ANIME",
  "genre": "Sports",
  "minScore": 80
}

Output

One row per title:

{
  "id": 154587,
  "id_mal": 52991,
  "title_romaji": "Sousou no Frieren",
  "title_english": "Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End",
  "title_native": "葬送のフリーレン",
  "type": "ANIME",
  "format": "TV",
  "status": "FINISHED",
  "episodes": 28,
  "average_score": 91,
  "popularity": 459331,
  "favourites": 40000,
  "genres": ["Adventure", "Drama", "Fantasy"],
  "tags": ["Elf", "Magic", "Time Skip"],
  "studios": ["Madhouse"],
  "season": "FALL",
  "season_year": 2023,
  "cover_image": "https://s4.anilist.co/file/...jpg",
  "next_episode": null,
  "next_airing_in_sec": null,
  "url": "https://anilist.co/anime/154587"
}

Manga rows include chapters / volumes; currently-airing anime include next_episode, next_airing_at and next_airing_in_sec (a live countdown).

Run it on a schedule

Schedule the Actor to snapshot trending or seasonal charts over time and connect a Google Sheets / Slack / Discord webhook integration to build your own anime dashboard or airing-notifier.

Notes & limitations

• Uses AniList's open GraphQL API — no key needed.
• Genres/scores are point-in-time snapshots at run time.
• Data attribution: powered by AniList.
• Public catalog data (non-personal).

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Keywords

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