Find an anime API to use

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nodejs, typescript
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing /api/media/seriestitle endpoint and compare its result for “Yakusoku no Neverland” with OMDb and the suggested Jikan API. Done means selecting and integrating an anime metadata API that supports Japanese names and returns the correct series for the title and year.

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Description

enhancement

IMDb is fairly English-centric, where sometimes they will have the English name for a Japanese series. It would be good if we could also search for the Japanese names.

An example is that if I use OMDb website https://www.omdbapi.com/ and search for "Yakusoku no Neverland" with a year 2019 it returns a movie from 2020 with the same name instead of the series from 2019, and if I search our API https://api.universalmediaserver.com/api/media/seriestitle?title=Yakusoku%20no%20Neverland it returns the wrong result, with the title "Neverland".

I saw there are some candidates like https://jikan.moe/ that could work

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TypeScript
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