Jikan is an OOP based class written in PHP that scrapes and parses data out of MyAnimeList. It provides you an easy syntax that can fetch Anime, Manga, People, Character details and even user lists. It returns the data in an array and has a built-in method that converts it to JSON.

The raison d'être for Jikan is to provide an easy API for being able to get stuff that the official API of MyAnimeList lacks.

Jikan even has it's own REST API that responds in JSON - Get Started

This is a Beta version and is in WIP.

• Anime + Characters/Staff + Episodes
• Manga + Characters/Staff
• Character
• Person
• User Anime/Manga List
• Modular scraping method for developers to extend the API
• JSON formats! ლ( ͡⎚ ͜ʖ ͡⎚ ლ)

• Fetch Anime + Manga Reviews, Recommendations, Stats, News, Pictures, etc
• Search results w/ pagination
• Command Line Usage

Check the examples directory

• [Anime/Manga] HTML Tags are now stripped out from Synopsis & Background information
• [Anime/Manga] Background returns as an empty string if there's nothing to parse
• [Anime/Manga] Characters & Staff to return only 1 display image instead of the 2 different sizes in one string
• [Character/Person] Added picture parsing
• [User list] Bug fixes
• [REST] Added approproate HTTP header responses

• licensors to licensor
• authors to author
• genres to genre
• producers to producer
• studios to studio

• Fixed score and favorites not showing up for manga
• Fixed parsing issue for some serialization

• Fixed anime/manga type fetch
• Fixed parsing issue with some licensors names

• Serialization will return empty array if there's none
• Replaced is_link check with is_link2
  • is_link uses the default php function filter() to validate URLS
  • filter() returns false on some correct URLS that have UTF8 characters (which a lot of anime/manga do)
  • is_link2 simply checks for http(s):// via ReGex
• Refactored authors array response for manga & fixed critical parsing issues
  • Check response types @ http://jikan.me/docs#rest-manga
  • Returns empty array if there's no authors set
  • authors is renamed to author
• Refactors genres array response
  • Check response types @ http://jikan.me/docs#rest-manga
  • genres is renamed to genre
• background returns empty string if there's no background available

• Fix manga override for setParentFile

• Added method setParentFile($type, $value) and setChildFile($page, $value)
  • This method pre-sets links/file paths to the parent/child methods, if you don't want to pass ID params to them
  • More info in the docs
• Added extended method episodes
  • Only works for the parent method anime
  • Recursively makes requests if the episodes are more than 100 to fetch all episodes
  • More info in the docs
• Added extended method characters_staff
  • Works for the parent methods; anime and manga
  • More info in the docs
• If premiered is unknown, it'll return an empty string
• If ranking is N/A, it'll return -1
• Refactored related for manga
• Fixed bugs of related anime
• Added title-english for anime/manga
• Added 'status' for manga (e.g completed, publishing, etc)
• For Mangas, volumes and chapters will return 'Unknown' if so otherwise it will return integers
• Following Semantic Versioning

• Method list renamed to user_list
  • Reason: Issues with PHP 5.6
• Fixed critical bugs

• Added user anime/manga list fetch & parsed as JSON
• A few more stuff can be parsed from the Anime/Manga pages
  • Background
  • Opening Themes
  • Ending Themes

• Jikan library is renamed from mal-uapi.php to jikan.php
• Namespace changed from MAL to Jikan

   $jikan = new \Jikan\GET;
   $jikan->anime(1);
   $anime = $jikan->data;

• Main class is changed from GET to Get
• Completed person fetch
• Added canonical link for Characters in the return data
• Fixed parsing of related anime bug
• Here's the data you can fetch from a person
  • Canonical Link
  • Given Name
  • Family Name
  • Alternative Names
  • Birthday
  • Website
  • Member favorites
  • More
  • Voice Acting Roles
    • The Anime
      • Name
      • Link
      • Image
    • Character
      • Name
      • Link
      • Role
      • Image
  • Anime Staff Positions
    • The Anime
      • Name
      • Link
      • Image
      • Role
  • Published Manga
    • The Manga
      • Name
      • Link
      • Image
      • Role
• Replaced log method by thrown exception

• Completed character fetch data
  • You can now fetch animeography, mangaography, voice actors and member favorites of that character

   $mal = new \MAL\GET;
   $character = $mal->character(1)->data;

• Added Character fetch, you can now get character data.
  • Yet to fetch character animeography, mangaography & voice actors
• Updated resource for synopsis of anime/manga to something more complete and easier to match, the meta og tags
• Fetching anime data did not scrape related series (forgot to add it there, woops!) where as manga method did
• Added chaining methods (return $this)
  • Note that this only works for similar type gets, for example Anime, Manga, Characters
  • So you can fetch extra stuff such as videos, episodes, reviews, etc from their own respective pages like this:

   	$mal = new \MAL\GET;
   	$anime = $mal->anime(1)->videos()->episode()->reviews();

  • This will be slower as every method is fetching a completely new page dedicated to that data
• Simply calling the anime or manga method like this,

   	$anime = $mal->anime(1)

  will no longer return the data! The data will be saved to its array, which you'll need to use a new method to return it. The reason for this is chained methods to fetch other related data as stated above!

   	$anime = $mal->anime(1)->return();
   	//or
   	$anime = $mail->anime(1)->data;
   	//same stuff

• Many bug fixes
• Manga fetching works without any errors now
• You can now fetch related mangas

• You're now able to fetch manga details
• Bug fixes