This bot will automatically like the latest social activity of a set of anime/manga series on AniList. That is, each list update (i.e. watched an episode or read a chapter) for a series being watched will have that activity like by the bot. This is a great way to build a following on the site since the social-network side of the platform is fairly basic.
The objectives of this weekend project were to practice/refamiliarize myself with:
- Python 3
- GraphQL
- OAuth 2.0
- APIs
This project is UNOFFICIAL and not affiliated with the AniList team at all. Tested on Python 3.8 and 3.9.
Pull requests welcome!
Note: due to fairly strict API rate-limiting, not all activities will be liked, especially if multiple popular series are being monitored.
Create and activate a new virtualenv in the project directory
# creates a virtualenv
python3 -m venv venv
# activates the virtualenv
source venv/bin/activate
Install needed dependencies
pip3 install requests python-dotenv
Rename .env.example to .env and follow the comments/links to ensure the correct values are inserted for each environment variable.
Additionally, the variable media_ids in bot.py needs to be filled with the series ID for each series you wish to monitor. The series ID can be found in the URL of the series page. For example: Cowboy Bebop has the URL https://anilist.co/anime/1/Cowboy-Bebop/, with the ID 1 found following /anime/.
To run the bot, simply enter the following from a terminal while in the project's top-level directory (the virtualenv must be activated, see above):
python bot.py
Use the Ctrl-c to terminate the bot.
Once completed, close the virtualenv:
deactivate