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Douki Userscript Edition - sync your Anilist.co anime list to MAL
Disclaimer
Use this script at your own risk! The author assumes no responsibility for any damages of any kind. It is strongly recommended you test this out on a throwaway MAL account before attempting to sync your main account.
About
So you're an Anilist user (perhaps you came over after MAL melted down) but you still want to keep your MAL page up to date for all your friends who still use it. Douki can sync your Anilist lists to MAL with the click of a button.
Unfortunately, given that MAL shut down its public API over security concerns, the only way to modify a MAL list is from the MAL site itself. Thus, Douki is no longer a standalone web app but a userscript that can run right on MAL and use its API.
Usage
- Install a userscript manager (choose one from this list) (some users report Greasemonkey does not work - it has been tested with Tampermonkey)
- Install the script here
- Visit the import page on Myanimelist.net. You need to be logged in to MAL.
- Alternatively, a link to the import page is added to the List dropdown at the top of the main page
- Make sure the date format matches your setting on MAL (US or Euro).
- Fill in your Anilist username and hit
Import
Please see the demonstration gif (many thanks to @kdy for providing this)
Notes
- The most common source of errors are titles that are not yet approved on Myanimelist. These cannot be added even manually. Before reporting errors, check to see if you can add an item manually. If you can't add it, neither can Douki.
- All custom scoring formats on Anilist (1-5, 1-100, stars) will be converted to MAL's 1-10 system. The scores will round down (i.e. a 95 will become a 9). This follows an established community practice.
- Custom lists will be imported into the main MAL list.
- Private lists will be ignored.
- Tags and notes will be ignored. Keeping these consistent across the two sites is too difficult for now. I am open to attempting this in the future, but no promises.
- Due to a quirk with MAL's site, changing the number of times you've rewatched a show or reread a manga alone will not trigger an update. You need to also change status, episode/chapter count, or score for the script to pick up on a change and update the entry.
All suggestions, feedback, or bug reports are welcome.
Oh wow, you're quick.
I had most of the work done already from trying to do this with APIv1, and I already kind of knew GraphQL from another project. Wasn't too hard to make a few adjustments!
I haven't updated MAL in months. You're a lifesaver! :) I'm glad I tested this on a second account first like you advised; I forgot about my smiley ratings which ended up transferring as 3s, 2s, and 1s. I'll just have to change my score system or clear out my scores before syncing to my real account. Seems to work perfectly fine otherwise.
Glad I could help. I'll look into handling custom scoring. Offhand I don't think MAL supports anything other than the 1-10 system but it might be possible to set up a conversion for people who use different scoring systems on AL.
With Api v2 you can specify an argument on the score field to set it to which ever score type you would like, by default it will return the scores in which ever format the user is using.
I thinkscore (format: POINT_10)should do it but docs here https://anilist.github.io/ApiV2-GraphQL-Docs/medialist.doc.htmlHelpful as always. Thanks!
Did an update and custom scoring should automatically convert to MAL's 1-10 system now. Try it out again before you mess up all your scores (again on a temp account)!
It is still running for me so I am not sure, does it only support anime? Would it be possible to make it support manga as well?
Thanks for doing this by the way, my mal list is really outdated since I moved here
Glad you liked it, I'll look into adding manga support soon. It shouldn't be too hard, I just have to find the time.
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Thanks for letting me know. Currently I'm using the rounding results from Anilist (so in that sense it's intentional). I'll get back to you after I talk to the Anilist folks about whether they plan to change it, if not it shouldn't be too hard to have Douki do it instead.
All right I asked and it turns out there are good reasons for leaving the rounding like that (a lot of people get unhappy when you round a 95 up to a 10, etc.) so I'll be leaving it as is. Thanks for asking though!
feature request: I use mal by logging in with google, douki seems to only work with username + password and not oauth2 like mal. so please add `Login with ${x}` support.
I had that exact same issue. I just changed my MAL password and then it worked.
Thanks for the suggestion! I don't think MAL's API currently allows for this type of authentication (you can use oauth2 to log in and use their site, but not their backend service). I will look into possible workarounds, but I think for now this is the best that can be done. MAL has promised to revamp their service, in their words, "in our 2017-2018 roadmap." At that point it will almost surely be possible.
Thank you! I hadn't updated my MAL in forever, so this was a life saver!! ^^
The only error I got (besides 2 "This anime has not been approved yet" ones) was:
"Could not match a.i.c.o. -incarnation-: Invalid ID"I added manga list support. Please give it a try, but again use a temporary account first, and please let me know if you experience any problems.
For some reason, it doesn't seem to be syncing my completed anime anymore? At first I thought it was because I use a custom list for my seasonal watching, but I recently completed Anne Happy and Tokyo Ghoul, which were never on custom lists, and they're still marked as on-hold and watching on my MAL after syncing. I'm not sure what the problem is?
I'll try to replicate and see what's going on. Thanks for reporting this.
Edit: I found the issue, when I query the Anilist API for your data it literally does not return any completed shows. It returns all the shows you've paused, plan to watch, etc. but nothing you've marked completed. Let me see if I can figure out why that is the case.
It does look like the use of custom lists here is causing an issue. I'll spare you the technical details but this is something both Anilist and I need to fix, and we're working on it. As a bonus I'll have to enable custom list support to fix this issue so that will be rolling out as a new feature as soon as I can complete it.
Okay, thank you.
Worked for me with only one error
Could not match Momokuri (tv): This anime has not been approved yet.(just curious whats the technical stuff behind this error?)
OH MY GOD THANKS
I saw that Anilist had a 'MAL Sync' But i didn't see any 'reverse Sync' from Anilist to MAL, so thank you so much.
I'm gonna create a MAL account so i can test it out
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@solitethos
Also, you said;Update 1: If you use a scoring system on AL other than 1-10, Douki should now automatically convert it to 1-10 for use on MAL. Please let me know if you experience any problems with this feature.
So i wanted to tell you that it works, i'm currently using the 1-100 Scoring system and it was converted to 1-10 on MAL.
Any chance of this importing the dates from here to MyAnimeList? Importing another site to MAL messed that up but here has most of that data.
I'll try to take a look at doing this. I initially shied away from it because dates are really tricky to get right sometimes. I don't know exactly when I'll have time to spare but this will be the next feature I tackle.
Latest update should cover this feature.
You. are. a. life. saviour! Thank you sooo much! :) Worked perfectly (The app has problem with Hentai and Not yet aired mostly)
Yeah, anything that MAL hasn't approved for their page won't go through obviously, and there are a few shows that MAL and AL store differently for their own reasons. Hentai I'm not sure about - what errors are you seeing?
I keep getting Invaild MAL credentials. Is it because I just changed my password like twenty mins ago or a error?
Checking this out now.
I got the same error on the first try but now that I retyped my password it seems to be working fine. Are you still having issues?
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Interesting. I wonder if you're running an old version of IE there that doesn't support the latest Javascript. Can you try to get it to launch Edge or Chrome at least?
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This line:
web_browser := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")Can you put something else there? Idk anything about PowerShell unfortunately.
Latest update: new domain and much faster syncing by only updating what needs to. Please let me know if there are any issues.
Yes, it's a little faster.
I had these mistakes: Errors: 8.
Could not match Girls' Work: This anime has not been approved yet.
Could not match Savanna Game: This anime has not been approved yet.
Could not match Entotsu-chou no Poupelle: Invalid ID
Please try adding it manually.
Could not match Baki: New Grappler Baki: This anime has not been approved yet.
Could not match Pokemon Generations: This anime has not been approved yet.
Could not match Itsudatte Bokura no Koi wa 10cm datta: This anime has not been approved yet.
Could not match Perfect Half: Invalid ID
Please try adding it manually.
Could not match Sword Art Online: Hoshinaki Yoru no Aria: This manga has not been approved yet.Thanks for letting me know. "Not approved yet" is an issue on MAL's side typically, but invalid ID is something Anilist can usually fix. I'll report those.
Looks like Perfect Half is not listed on MAL so that won't sync until/unless they add it. I'll see about getting Entotsu-chou no Poupelle fixed.
Ok after further investigation Entotsu-chou no Poupelle isn't approved on MAL yet (try adding it to your list there and you will see) so it can't be correlated on Anilist's side yet. This will get fixed soon after MAL approves it.
Latest change is out. Should prevent Douki from re-syncing stuff that hasn't changed and cut down on the number of errors.
Made a quick update today, Douki should stop overwriting tags and other settings that don't have corresponding values on Anilist's side.
Goodness, this tool is amazing. Worked like a charm!
Now I'll just make sure I remember to Update it once a month...THANKS!
Seeing Yui like that makes it all worth it.
Notice: Douki is currently inoperable due to MAL shutting down their API. Stay tuned for updates.
Is it back yet?
No, and it probably never will be tbh. They're much more likely to open up their new internal API to the public at some point (after dealing with the old one, I expected some kind of security problem like this to happen sooner or later). I don't imagine that will happen any time soon as they aren't even finished with the internal version. They may never open it up at all, given how little they seemed to care about the old one. Time will tell.
Hey! I just found someone do a unofficial MAL API, can you work with it? source: https://jikan.moe and https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1616529
I am pretty sure that Jikan does not provide any way to update lists, so it's not a viable solution. You need the official API to update libraries.
Oh, didn't know that
Right now I'm working on a userscript that you can use while on MAL's site. It's far from a perfect solution - you have to sync the entire list every time, it has to be really slow in order not to violate MAL's TOS and get you banned, and it won't work on mobile, but it will get the job done. No promises on when it will be ready as I have a job now and a lot less time to work on side projects.
Edit: Jikan might allow me to not have to sync the entire list every time, if it works the way it describes. I'll take a look at it in further depth on the weekend.
Updated; Douki is now a userscript that runs on MAL rather than a standalone page. Please let me know if you have any troubles.
Does this work as intended even after API shutdown?
The userscript doesn't use the shutdown API, but rather the one the MAL site itself does. That one is restricted from editing lists via CSRF tokens and session cookies so it has to be called from the page itself, thus a userscript.
I found a bug but it's not a big one.
For the anime https://anilist.co/anime/101231/Shikioriori/
Anilist has it listed as one episode while MAL has it listed as three. When I import it changes it from 3/3 to 1/3 on MAL.Very good tool besides this small bug :p
All right I'll look into that. Thanks for letting me know. Does it at least leave it marked as completed on MAL?
All right I pushed an update that should stop overwriting episode/chapter/volume counts on completed items. This will leave the count at 0 for new items, but it won't change existing ones. It's a bigger rewrite to actually match what you have on MAL but I'll put that on the todo list.
Completed manga have incorrect (zero) chapter numbers
This is a known issue, and I'm researching a possible fix, but it's looking very difficult at the moment. MAL doesn't expose a method for getting chapter or episode counts for single items so I have to set up a workaround. No ETA at the moment.
Maybe not directly. You can create a script to update the chapters and volume correctly in the manga list page of MAL. It's not necessarily required to be integrated with your current script which activates on clicking import. I mean, yeah it would be good but since you say it's difficult why not take the easier route of getting the chapter and volume count mentioned in the completed section of user's manga list page and update it as a second step.
I'll have to check when I have some free time if the counts are available once the item shows up in the user's list. That would be a big refactor but much easier than my current plan which was to set up a CORS proxy around Jikan (and even getting a chapter or episode count for a single show from there is a dodgy business).
