Senpai's utils

A look at the number of anime series per season, who simulcasts them, and how many of them are sequels.

How to grab all the sweet sweet data that makes the anime chart - including calendar export!

A quick implementation for a glaring omission by the CR team. Thread in CR forums.

The feed updates every half hour.
It uses the undocumented API, so any breaking changes would break this feed. Please understand.
The API enjoys not reporting creation dates, so if the API doesn't provide it, the datetime the element was first seen is used.
Machine-readable data (JSON) is included in an HTML comment in the content field of each element. Regex JSON\:\[\[(\{.*\})\]\] to get it.

Source code here. Thanks to aheadley for the Python CR API interface.

Since the ANN API search by name kinda sorta sucks, I made my own for use in the Senpai backend. Features:

Spaces are wildcards. Search with love live sunshine and have it work.
It looks in the precision attribute (the season number, basically), so you can search for gochuumon usagi 2 and find Gochiusa S2.
Handles Hepburn romanization weirdness, so if you search for teekyuu it will find ANN's "Teekyū". If for some reason you want to search for teekyū or teekyu that also works.
It has ANN's alt titles, so you can search for puella magi madoka magica or mahou shoujo madoka magica
Local cache of association of ANN anime names to ids, so it's super fast. Auto-updated hourly.
Simple JSON output. Limited to 20 results (contact me if this is a problem)
Full raw JSON data available below

As usual, though, don't hammer me! Don't make me rate limit or require api keys and we'll all be happier.

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