jikan-me/jikan

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1066 stars · 118 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Jikan is an unofficial PHP library and REST API for MyAnimeList.net that scrapes the website to provide data the official API lacks. It lets developers fetch anime and manga data as JSON without building their own parsers.

Use cases

• fetch anime and manga data from myanimelist
• scrape myanimelist into json
• get anime info for my app without official api
• build an anime recommendation or tracking app
• self-host a myanimelist rest api
• parse myanimelist pages in php

When to choose

• you need MyAnimeList data beyond what the official API offers
• you want a maintained PHP library or a self-hostable REST service
• you don't need authenticated actions like updating lists

When to avoid

• you need to update your anime lists or other authenticated operations
• you need a guaranteed official API with no scraping dependency
• your project is not PHP and no community wrapper exists

Facets

library · maturity active

http-client web-scraping parser serialization api-framework apis web-development media developer-tools php self-hosted myanimelist anime manga rest-api scraper unofficial-api web-server

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