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Getting Anime Description Paragraph
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:13 am
by OwnPie
I've read through the API spec on the wiki pages and I can't seem to find any information about querying the AniDB for that particular piece of information. (the description of the anime / story and such)
I can do this correctly of course:
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Getting info about Naruto...
Response:
230 ANIME
239|0|197|37|0|0|822|5360|764|42|2002-2006|TV|Naruto|ナルト|||ntv'naruto tv||Alternative,Past,Martial Arts,Action,Evolving,Ninjas,People,Shounen,Super Power,Manga,Serial,Slapstick,Drama
Can anyone tell me how to get that other info? Or is it not possible?
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:47 am
by epoximator
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> ANIME aname=ntv&acode=65536
< 230 ANIME
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/naruto/
you can build the acode like this:
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int acode = 1<<20|1<<21|1<<22; // romaji|kanji|english
...
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:20 pm
by OwnPie
Thanks for the reply, but that list (the acode list) doesn't have the field I am looking for... as far as I can tell...
Take the ever popular Naruto example again:
On the page
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... me&aid=239
There is this piece of text:
Naruto closely follows the life of a boy who is feared and detested by the villagers of the hidden leaf village of Konoha. The distrust of the boy has little to do with the boy himself, but it’s what’s inside him that causes anxiety. Long before Naruto came to be, a Kyuubi (demon fox) with great fury and power waged war taking many lives. ... etc.
So, how do I get that text?
Also, I managed to get
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555 BANNED
Flooding. (Only ONE datagram per 2 sec)
while looking at the different results for each acode value because, like the noob I am I forgot to put in a delay...
How do I un-ban myself? I promise never to do it again!
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:57 pm
by epoximator
sorry, i didn't read properly. no, you can't get the description atm. i didn't add it because it's the field most likely to extend 1400 bytes, but.. i guess i could..
you're only temporary banned. just take a break in the sun or read the spec again
8008
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:44 pm
by OwnPie
Cool, thanks for all the help.
Just a suggestion about the description field, although you might have a better idea having actually developed the system:
I know you've already hit 32 bits on the acode parameters so maybe a different structure would be used. What about splitting the description into multiple response datagrams resulting in 2 new API "commands"?
One to count the number of fragments and another to request a specific numbered fragment.