Hello!
I’ve recently developed a small chrome extension that leverages trakt’s API (to make it easier to check-in/collect or cross-link).
However, I’ve noticed that surfacing anime data is quite limited.
Is there any way the API could include ids for MyAnimeList or ANiDB when querying shows tagged as anime?
At the moment I’m looking at using Simkl’s API for this feature, but that’s not ideal.
Additionally, where does Trakt currently source it’s anime data?
Currently we get that data from TMDB.
The way they add anime seasons don’t make it possible to link with aniDB or MAL, since the seasons from the same franchises are added in the same page(and sometimes, different seasons are added in the same season), OVAs are added as specials and movies are added as movies.
For example: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Each season on MAL is a different page, the specials are grouped on other pages there aswell. Some, don’t even exist on MAL.
As for the movies, we also have the special movies that aired on theaters in the beginning of each season, the anime databases don’t have those since they have the same content as the episodes:
Since the data is so different, it is difficult to align those IDs here.
@sp1ti also made a great browser extension;
The browser extension is currently broken, sorry. Google made me fill out additional forms due to new rules/manifest 3.0 migration and from what I gathered they don’t like the way I handled the “indexing” and never followed up (the store listing was taken offline 
). Attempts to port it to Firefox-based browsers (which I swapped to due to Google’s moves regarding the whole thing) have been stalled due to compability issues with indexedDB 
. Should probably look into this again some day or at least publish the userscript again. Maybe AI can help a lazy dummy coder like me 
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Don’t know about simkl coverage but there is also GitHub - beeequeue/arm-server: 📃 A service for mapping Anime IDs between Database Websites which offers mapping between anime sites and I think the anidb kodi plugin had plenty of TMDB ids.
Thanks for all the info!
From what I’ve gathered, Simkl aggregate multiple sources for their database, including ANIDB which explains their mapping to mal/anilist/anidb id.
They follow a similar structure instead of aggregating under a single series like TMDB/trakt.
If there isn’t a simple index db, I might need to support more than one data source in the extension instead of only Trakt.
But that might be too big of a time commitment for a side project 
Oh right, anidb also has the info in the API. Just needs a mapping as well 
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Honestly, the best thing for trakt would be having a mod (eg. @Sonply ) adding in the MAL id in the backend and set the default episode group display to that which matches the anime world (so that it can handle shit like ReZero, etc.) and grab the other anime sites through various APIs. But this gets even more wonky when syncing from kodi etc. (and all the sonarr people still on tvdb data).
I like trakt way to have everything “in a row” but I just don’t like when i use it with kodi to watch anime that it can’t match with the seasons/scrappers,
I recently changed to umbreall instead of otaku so trakt works there fine
Fen Light is adding “Episode Groups” from TMDB. Trakt get’s it’s database from TMDB and also it’s Episode groups.
So now we can change our group. Tikipeter is rolling out an update tonight that let’s us assign which group you want.
Most anime have people dedicated on creating the right group that aligns with say MAL.
If you can’t find a group, you can create one! So now we have a tool to “fix” any series. you can even create a group for yourself that matches a magnet link.
It takes about a day to update the group but now people can start creating the right groups an we can assign to the new group
are you talking about adding those to tmdb?
because i don’t think it works like that. Episodes Groups are not for your personal preference orders 
anime magnet links are mainly following sites like MAL anidb. I mean that’s what the episode groups are anyway. so it won’t be my “personal preference order” though I made it sound like it was so fair play. You think I’m that bothered about linking it closely?
why bother linking it that closely when it will get un cached anyway, I’m not one for re watching shows.
anyway you are missing the forest for the tree, before their wasn’t a bigger incentive to get correct groups, the groups exist already but their are still shows that need better groups. once this is released it will encourage more to contribute, I didn’t even know we can edit stuff ourselves and have put in some work adding keywords to anime because it’s lacking. I’m also the person who found out about episode groups to ask the leading addon in kodi which is like in the millions. very excited about this update. once word gets out this should be better for trakt that we get correct episode groups, then people might make other edits for their favourite shows.
