Lists of anime in plaintext

Question

I'm trying to find lists of anime by genre in plaintext. Basically, the issue is that every anime list I can find online (MAL, ANN, Anime Planet) is stylised in some way, which isn't conducive to copy-pasting. I'd like the lists in plaintext.

this question belongs on stack overflow or power user. That said, you might want to try using this -> https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/02/17/portia-alternative-to-kimono/ — ton.yeung, Apr 15 '16 at 16:47
what do you mean by copy-pasting? is xml/json ok? then you could also look at apis of different sites, like myanimelist. — Armin, Apr 15 '16 at 17:36
@ton.yeung: No, this question does **not** belong on Stack Overflow. — Makoto, Apr 15 '16 at 19:30
MAL's API was remarkably useless as of a year or two ago. It might've improved since DeNA bought them, though. — senshin, Apr 16 '16 at 04:09
it may be possible to create a PHP Unit Script to run on Selenium to loop though every page of say MAL's anime list and run Javascript script to extract the data from the page and generate a sort of database only containing titles and genre which then could be used to generate a copy and paste friendly list....but weather someone will do that or not is another question — Memor-X, Apr 16 '16 at 05:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 12 '16 at 13:08

I wrote a small script that operates on the Wikipedia page that Arcane provided.

var anime = "";

$('#mw-pages li').each(function(key, value)
{
    anime += ($(this).text() + '\n');
});

// Credit to: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18197341/3571997
function download(filename, text) 
{
    var element = document.createElement('a');
    element.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(text));
    element.setAttribute('download', filename);

    element.style.display = 'none';
    document.body.appendChild(element);

    element.click();

    document.body.removeChild(element);
}

download($('#firstHeading').text() + '.txt', anime);

How to use:

Start a browser that can inject JavaScript into a page (I will use Google Chrome for this demonstration).
Navigate to a category on the Wikipage (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fantasy_anime_and_manga).
Open the developer console (F12) and click on the console tab.
Copy and paste the script in there and press Enter.
You should now receive a text file with all of the anime of this genre.

Remarks:

It also lists manga, visual novels etc.
Not user friendly.

I shall try to update (and turn it into a userscript) whenever I have more time on my hands.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '17 at 07:28

AniDB has api with their titles in single xml https://wiki.anidb.net/w/API

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<animetitles>
    <anime aid="1">
        <title type="short" xml:lang="en">CotS</title>
        <title xml:lang="fr" type="official">Crest of the Stars</title>
        <title xml:lang="en" type="official">Crest of the Stars</title>
        <title type="official" xml:lang="pl">Crest of the Stars</title>
        <title type="syn" xml:lang="cs">Hvězdný erb</title>
        <title type="main" xml:lang="x-jat">Seikai no Monshou</title>
        <title xml:lang="x-jat" type="short">SnM</title>
        <title type="syn" xml:lang="zh-Hans">星界之纹章</title>
        <title type="official" xml:lang="ja">星界の紋章</title>
    </anime>

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '16 at 11:14

1

Wikipedia to the rescue

I'd start from here. Each genre has the list of Anime/Manga that are tagged for that genre. Seems like the thing you want

answered Jun 15 '16 at 11:14

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