Documentation for AniDB aid search written by eloyard

This document describes how to search for aid by anime title in AniDB using service provided by eloyard.

Host: anisearch.outrance.pl
Request method: GET
Request file: index.php
Request parameters:
- name: task; value: always 'search'
- name: query; value: URL encoded, MySQL 5.1 Full-Text Boolean Search compatible
- Additionaly: putting \ character in front of query (i.e. \to ) forces search for exact whole given string (minus first - \ character, obviously), by using MySQL like function instead, without % or _ modifiers, it also disables script's stopwords for this query.
- name: langs; value: coma separated list of language codes (same as in original dump) of relevant4 response's titles, defaults to: ja,x-jat,en,x-unk

Response is for most part compatible with above mentioned AniDB XML title dump, so reffer to it.
Differences:
- Location. 1
- Dynamically generated in realtime, according to query. 2
- Up to 100 anime elements are returned.
- Up to 1000 title elements in total are returned. 3
- Optional presence of exact attribute in title element. The only possible, and required, value is string exact. When attribute is present, it denotes that this particular title has matched exactly given query and is not added as an alternative title.
- Irrelevant titles are omitted.
- lang attribute is not in xml namespace. 5
- All other non-stylistic changes are not intended and should be reported as bugs.

Data is provided by public, community based database - AniDB. Access is free of charge.
Latest data dump.
More information.
As data is considered external (with internal, automatic, caching) i hold no responsibility of any kind about it's availability, contents or whatever else.

Service is provided by me in faith that someone may find it useful. I do not guarantee it working as specified, working in timely manner or working at all.
It is provided as is. It may melt your face off, so be warned.

AniDB.
Forum post on AniDB forum thread was inspiration for writting this code, use it to comment about idea of service as a whole, not my particular implementation.
My account page at AniDB wiki, which may, or may not, hold info relevant to this service.
Info on AniDB APIs.

Ovious one, heh. Go back.
Therefore, although response is based on AniDB XML dump, it'll not have exactly the same content. Go back.
Yes, it's total number of title elements returned per query, so in theory it's possible to have anime elements omitted because lot's of titles returned for animes higher up on list. Go back.
Relevance is based on preffered languages reported by client in query, by default those are: english, japanese, japanese transcription and unknown (often used for unofficial, yet popular, anime names/abbreviations). Main and Official titles are always relevant, no matter the title. Same applies to titles with exact attribute set. Go back.
Makes things easier on simple parsers. Go back.

You can also find me on AniDB as eloyard

Moo.

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