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Provides programmatic access to MyAnimeList data. This is a fork of python-mal. My goal is to improve it and port it to python 3.x.
- python 3.*
- pytz
- requests
- lxml
- nose (only if you want to run tests, though!)
- cssselect
After cloning the repository, navigate to the directory and run python setup.py install
.
The myanimelist.session.Session
class handles requests to MAL, so you'll want to create one first:
from myanimelist.session import Session
s = Session()
Then if you want to fetch an anime, say, Cowboy Bebop:
bebop = s.anime(1)
print bebop
Objects in python-mal are lazy-loading: they won't go out and fetch MAL info until you first-request it. So here, if you want to retrieve, say, the things related to Cowboy Bebop:
for how_related,items in bebop.related.iteritems():
print how_related
print "============="
for item in items:
print item
print ""
You'll note that there's a pause while Cowboy Bebop's information is fetched from MAL.
To find out more about what python-mal
is capable of, visit the docs here.
Testing requires nose
. To run the tests that come with python-mal:
- Navigate to the python-mal directory
- Create a textfile named
credentials.txt
and put your MAL username and password in it, separated by a comma, or set environment variables namedMAL_USERNAME
andMAL_PASSWORD
with the appropriate values. - Run
nosetests
.
Make sure you don't spam the tests too quickly! One of the tests involves POSTing invalid credentials to MAL, so you're likely to be IP-banned if you do this too much in too short a span of time.