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submitted 7 months ago by Asudox@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Hello Lemmings.

I will be attempting to make a federated anime tracker this summer, but I am not quite sure what features people would want and how I would get the details for animes, mangas, etc.

For the latter: What I thought was to either scrape other anime websites continuosly in the background, but this most likely is against the ToS of every anime tracking website, such as AniList or MAL. (I actually asked anidb.net for special access to their DB because apparently you can request access to it, but I've been left on read by the two staff members) My second idea was to make it an anime tracker website where animes are only user-submitted. And the user submissions would be approved by assigned moderators. However, I think this would be quite inconvenient. I'd like to get your opinions and/or ideas for this.

For the former: So if you have any requests or suggestions, please drop it down in the comments section.

Thanks in advance.

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[-] gomp@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

but this most likely is against the ToS of every anime tracking website

AFAIK scraping publicly accessible websites is fine in most countries (IANAL, look into it)

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Ok cool, so even when that is out of the way, are the images copyrighted? Because I'd like to download the images and host them on my servers.

[-] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

Somehow those anime trackers are allowed to use the images too

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Guess I can download and host them in the EU as this project won't be commercial.

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