[Request] Character favorite counts on People endpoint

[seanbreckenridge]

An endpoint can be added to get the favorites for a person on MAL, by requesting the mobile version of the site.

could be put at person/id/favorites

heres a proof of concept:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
headers_mobile = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13B137 Safari/601.1'}
resp = requests.get("https://myanimelist.net/people/5", headers=headers_mobile)
soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.text)
[{el.select('p[class^="va-slider-item"]')[0].text: el.find("span", attrs={"data-users": True})["data-users"]} for el in soup.select(".va-slider-item") if el.select('p[class^="va-slider-item"]')]

Output:

[{'Ash Roller': '61'},
 {'Ash Roller': '61'},
 {'Ash Roller': '61'},
 {'Ash Roller': '61'},
 {'Sora, Takeuchi': '76'},
 {'Sokabe': '1'},
 {'Sokabe': '1'},
 {'Ginshu': '8'},
 {'Cayenne, Suzushiro': '6'},
 {'Capensis': '10'},
 {'Teo': '0'},
 {'Kouichi, Yamano': '0'},
....

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