weebAPI

A RESTful API made with FastAPI to obtain anime data from animepahe

Technologies Used

• Python requests library + RegEx for web scraping
• FastAPI to create the RESTful API
• Docker to containerize the application
• Render to host the API

User Guide

The API is hosted here https://weebapi.onrender.com/

To view the documentation for the API, simply go to https://weebapi.onrender.com/docs

The containerized images for every version are posted on Docker Hub here https://hub.docker.com/r/jshan9078/weeb-api/tags

Examples

Note: You can test the endpoints of the API from the documentation page linked above. Alternatively, simply construct a URL as follows.

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get_search_results

Use this endpoint to obtain search results for a desired anime

https://weebapi.onrender.com/get_search_results/naruto returns the following JSON data

get_full_data

Use this endpoint to obtain complete data for an anime series.

siteLink refers to the identifier https://animepahe.ru/anime/{identifier}

https://weebapi.onrender.com/get_full_data/90c9fc20-0c15-cee2-0d03-6f1fb998cec3 returns the following JSON data

get_episode

Use this endpoint to obtain complete data for a particular episode.

siteLink refers to the identifier https://animepahe.ru/anime/{identifier}

https://weebapi.onrender.com/get_episode/90c9fc20-0c15-cee2-0d03-6f1fb998cec3/1 returns the following JSON data

get_download_options

Use this endpoint to obtain the download options for a particular episode.

episodeLink refers to the whole episode link

https://weebapi.onrender.com/get_download_options/https://animepahe.ru/play/f1af0e39-d51f-34e4-decb-761d18d39729/d9ad6a27917400b6582742c55b1e39be76d234524db0789302c87bc4f9e827dd returns the following JSON data

get_download_link

Use this endpoint to obtain the download link

intermediaryPageLink refers to the https://pahe.win/ link

https://weebapi.onrender.com/get_download_link/https://pahe.win/NMZna returns the following string data

More Info: How does it work?

Webscraping

As mentioned above, the API is inherently a web scraper that grabs data from animepahe. None of the content served through the API is owned or produced by me. I experimented with methods employing beautifulsoup4 and selenium, but found that simply using RegEx on the raw html from the frontend of the web pages worked more effeciently. These frontends are obtained by using requests sessions.

Bypassing DDoS-Guard

Animepahe employs a DDoS-Guard guard challenge. This is not of concern if one is hosting the API locally, but if it is being hosted on a service such as AWS or Google Cloud Run, the the python requests library fails to fetch the frontend of animepahe. To solve this, cookies and User-Agent HTTP headers can be used as shown in the various functions inside the weebAPI folder.

Decrypting the Intermediary Page

When one tries to download an episode off animepahe, there are options.

Clicking the 1080p option of this episode, will take me to this pahe.win page.

From here, clicking continue will take me to the following page on kwix.cx

To get to the kwix.cx page, decryption must be done on the pahe.win site to get a token.

Getting the Download Link for A File

A download link can be obtained for a particular download option of a specific episode. To get this link, a POST request is made to the kwix.cx page. The location of the response is the download link.