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.

So you'd like the recommendations returned from a series to also have the thumbnail or image information?

Yes, that would be great.

How about now?

Thank you! That's what I was looking for

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

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

No to both currently.

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!

I followed the guide at https://api.mangaupdates.com/#tag/account/operation/loginWithCookie and the one above it for token session yet i still get 403 forbidden error

loginWithCookie is mostly meant for the frontend. It checks CORS to ensure that it matches mangaupdates.com. Use the other login method.

Hello, I have 2 questions...

1- I am having a hard time with this post route: https://api.mangaupdates.com/v1/series/search

Basically i'm trying to search for a manga but the result is not really what it's supposed to find and total_hits seems to always be 10000. This is the body:

{"search": "bloom into you", "page": 1, "perpage": 25, "orderby": "title" }

Am i missing something?

2- I am trying to get my series from a specific list using: https://api.mangaupdates.com/v1/lists/{id}/search. But it looks like it does not return the image of the serie, is it normal? If yes, how can i get the image?

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1- I am having a hard time with this post route: https://api.mangaupdates.com/v1/series/search

Basically i'm trying to search for a manga but the result is not really what it's supposed to find and total_hits seems to always be 10000. This is the body:

{"search": "bloom into you", "page": 1, "perpage": 25, "orderby": "title" }

Am i missing something?

Can you be more specific? What's wrong with the results?

To be more specific it wasn't returning the obvious results first but I figured it out. If I do "orderby": "score" I get the obvious results first, so that's fixed. I do have another question tho:

I am trying to get my series from a specific list using: https://api.mangaupdates.com/v1/lists/{id}/search. But it looks like it does not return the image of the serie, is it normal? If yes, how can i get the image?

Correct, the image isn't included currently. We have had other requests to add it or be able to display series with thumbnails, but we haven't had a chance to implement it yet.