MAL Articles

[irfan-dahir]

Definition/Requirement

"Featured articles" are a bit different than News.

News is user submitted. Whereas "Features articles" are written by MAL's editorial team and are usually more in content. There will be some differences in the model objects.

👉 We'll dropping the word "Featured" and calling them simply as "Articles" in Jikan,.

Endpoints

Article Tags

Article Tags: https://myanimelist.net/featured/tag

$jikan->getArticleTags($request)

Categories are listed here in a similar manner to genre listing. So we can re-use the same parser here probably.

Recent Articles

Recent Articles: https://myanimelist.net/featured

$jikan->getArticles(new ArticlesRequest(int $page))

Pinned Articles

Pinned Articles: https://myanimelist.net/featured

MAL pins/sets to feature usually 4 articles at the top of the same recent articles page. I don't want to return this in getArticles as it implements Results and that work break it.

$jikan->getPinnedArticles(new ArticlesPinnedRequest())

Note: ArticlesPinnedRequest is the same as ArticlesRequest but without the pagination. Pinned articles are only on the first page.

Article By Tag

News By Tag: https://myanimelist.net/featured/tag/events

$jikan->getArticleByTag(new ArticleByTagRequest(string $tag, int $page))

Article Search

Article Search: https://myanimelist.net/featured/search?cat=featured&q=ghost+in+the+shell

$jikan->getArticleSearch(new ArticleSearchRequest(string $query, int $page))

Response Objects

Tags

Unlike News, a category here is a Tag itself as there's no higher hierarchy.
We'll simply re-use the same approach as genre listing. where a list of MalUrl is returned.

Property	Type	Remarks
mal_id	String	Tag name (canonical)
url	String	-
name	String	Tag name

Could possibly re-use TagMeta from News as well.

ArticleByID

MAL URL: https://myanimelist.net/featured/2380/Anime_Expo__Lookback_Special
https://myanimelist.net/featured/2378/Ni_no_Kuni__Cross_Worlds_Global_Version_Release_on_the_Horizon
https://myanimelist.net/featured/1087/The_Philosophy_Behind_Ghost_in_the_Shell

Property	Type	Remarks
mal_id	String	News ID
url	String	-
title	String	News title
subtitle	String	News subtitle
date	String	ISO8601
content	String	Unparsed HTML response (like user about mes'?)
user	UserMeta	Author user object
views	Integer	Comment count
relations	Objects of MalUrl[]	Same as relation is done in getAnime & getManga
related_articles	Objects of ArticleListItem	⚠Kinda same property name as relations.
tags	TagMeta[]	Array of tag metadata objects (mal_id, name, URL)

Results

The following will implement Results.

• Recent Articles
• Article By Tag
• Article Search

getResults() will return an array of ArticleListItem

ArticleListItem

Property	Type	Remarks
mal_id	String	News ID
url	String	-
images	Images Object	Need to look into available formats & sizes
title	String	News title
date	String	ISO8601
excerpt	String	-
user	UserMeta	Author user object
tags	TagMeta[]	Array of tag metadata objects (mal_id, name, URL)
is_spoiler	Boolean	Spoiler
is_advertorial	Boolean	Advertorial
views	Integer	View count

[irfan-dahir]

Notes on REST API implementation for this and #391 .

Thinking about it, I believe it would be best to implement it like Anime or Manga is. Indexed within the DB and made available within Scout.

Otherwise using MAL's search for News and articles would be very limited. Custom queries would allow us to further filter by

• Date
• Tags
• Author
• etc

This should further allow us to provide an even better API call experience for
Anime/Manga News rather than relying on parsing MAL.