# jikan-me/jikan

Unofficial MyAnimeList PHP+REST API which provides functions other than the official API

Repository: https://github.com/jikan-me/jikan
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jikan
Homepage: https://jikan.moe
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: manga, anime, rest, api, php, parsing, scraper, json, library, rest-php, myanimelist, myanimelist-api, psr-2, psr-4
Last push: 2026-03-14T17:07:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 72, release rhythm 34, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3521, "days_push": 172, "days_rel": 225, "gap_med": 487, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1066, forks 118 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:27.066015+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, web-scraping, parser, serialization, api-framework
- domain: apis, web-development, media, developer-tools
- platform: php, self-hosted
- tags: myanimelist, anime, manga, rest-api, scraper, unofficial-api, web-server

## Member repositories
- jikan-me/jikan (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.066015+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:55:24.578190+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jikan-me/jikan (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.066015+00:00, sha 1937338c5b2d)
  - homepage: https://jikan.moe (fetched 2026-08-29T12:57:09.890199+00:00, sha 44136fa355b3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.