NOTE: This application was based on an older, unsupported version of the MAL API, so most features of this program will no longer work anymore
An application for updating and retrieving information from MyAnimeList.net (MAL) using natural language queries.
This comprises of two applications: the natural language interface and the menu-driven interface.
Features common to both of them include:
- Search the MAL database for anime or manga information
- Add new anime or manga to user's personal list
- Delete anime or manga from the user's personal list
- Update episode/chapter/volume information on user's personal list
- Update scores on user's personal list
- Update statuses on user's personal list
The natural language interface allows users to enter commands in plain English to access and update information from the MAL website. For example, the user could enter queries such as I want to search for Naruto information for search or Update my chapter count for Death Note to increment the number of read chapters on their manga list as well as many others.
The menu-driven interface is also allows users to manage their own personal lists and search the website, however it does not feature natural language functionality. N.B. This version doesn't quite have feature parity with the NL interface when it comes to some of underlying functionality, particularly network code. This will likely be improved in future.
To run the application, you can download the binary for your platform from the releases page.
To run from source, the following are required:
- Python v3.4+
- Requests
- Click
- BeautifulSoup
For the natural language interface run the following from the root of the project:
python nl_interface
For the menu-driven interface run the following from the root of the project:
python menuinterface
You may need to replace python with python3 in the commands above to run the correct version of Python, particularly on some Mac/Linux configurations.
Enjoy! :)