MangaUpdates API Comments/Suggestions/Bugs
4 months ago
Posts: 3
Hello! I've been looking into integrating the manga recommendations into TachiyomiSY via the API. That app already supports recommendations from Anilist and MAL and uses a thumbnail grid to display them.
The issue I'm running into is that I want to retrieve the thumbnail for each recommendation but the API only includes the ID, title, URL and weight.
Of course, I could separately send requests to /series/{id}
for each recommendation but that seems kinda wasteful and slow.
So I was wondering if there's a better way to do this. Maybe there could be an endpoint for a "batch ID lookup"? Then I could pass a list of series ids and receive multiple items in one request, like the /series/search
endpoint does for text queries.

4 months ago
Posts: 2852
So you'd like the recommendations returned from a series to also have the thumbnail or image information?
4 months ago
Posts: 3
Yes, that would be great.

4 months ago
Posts: 2852
How about now?
4 months ago
Posts: 3
Thank you! That's what I was looking for
4 months ago
Posts: 2
Hello again, thanks for the help last few times
I wanted to report a broken link to faq on error page about titles that have their year data locked
In my case in particular, I came across this manga:
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/36ifvtv/jittan-no-jitan-recipe
Which you can see has the Year marked Locked
Clicking on Locked takes you to an Error page with the following message:
This field is locked. You do not have permission to edit it.
Reason: <!--url_type_4.5--><a href='http://www.mangaupdates.com/faq.html?cid=7#item52'><u>"Year" Series Field</u></a><!--url_type_4_end--><BR>
Which looks like broken html along with a broken link. The correct url would be: https://www.mangaupdates.com/site/faq/7#item52
Alternatively, it might just need a fix to the html + redirecting old faq links to new faq links (I'd prefer this alternative but I leave it up to you)
PS. I'm not sure if it affects other cases of Locked things, I don't come across it that often
Thanks again! -curche
3 months ago
Posts: 5
Q1: Not directly api related, but any way to filter those without any year value? Q2: Any way to filter based on addition date or last update date? Thanks

3 months ago
Posts: 2852
No to both currently.
1 month ago
Posts: 28
Hello. If possible could you add not_scanlated
filter to the /series/search
endpoint?
I can currently achieve this with two requests and a single line of code, but having this as a built-in filter would be incredibly helpful.
There’s no rush at all —I'd just be really grateful if it’s ever added.
Thank you in advance!