[ `Question` ] : Is it possible to get the total number of anime available in the database?

[baseplate-admin]

Hi there,

Its me again and i have a small question.

Is it possible to get the total number of entries available in the database somehow?

For example

Lets suppose that i want to seed my database using jikan.moe. Now i can do a while loop to get data from api.jikan.moe/anime. But this will continue forever ( unless i set a range )

Now the question here is that is it possible to get the total number of animes ( so that i can set the upper range )

Thanks :D

[irfan-dahir]

You can use the information in pagination
e.g https://api.jikan.moe/v4/anime

  "pagination": {
    "last_visible_page": 1008,
    "has_next_page": true,
    "current_page": 1,
    "items": {
      "count": 25,
      "total": 25184, // this is the total number of anime entires in the DB
      "per_page": 25
    }
  },

You could also just use has_next_page to keep track of whether you've hit the last page or not or if you need to know what the last page is you can check last_visible_page.

Feel free to join our discord server for any support questions: http://discord.jikan.moe/

[baseplate-admin]

I got my answer

Thanks for responding quickly.

Oopps sorry i overlooked discord :)

Next time i will try contacting there.

Thanks :D

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Edit 1 :
Its not what i was looking for actually. But i will do a follow up in discord :D

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Edit 2 :
I have an implementation using python.

import requests

ANIME_NUMBER = 1

STARTING_NUMBER = 1
FINISH_NUMBER = 25_184

while STARTING_NUMBER <= FINISH_NUMBER:
    res = requests.get(f"https://api.jikan.moe/v4/anime/{ANIME_NUMBER}")
    data = res.json()

    if res.status_code == 200:
        STARTING_NUMBER += 1

    # Do whatever you want with data

    ANIME_NUMBER += 1