Jikan REST API v4 RC

What's New

• Uses Jikan Parser v3.0.0
• Switched Database from Redis to MongoDB with added Migrations
• Added Redis as Caching layer
• 🐘 Added support for PHP 8.0
• Added auto-generable OpenAPI 3.0 specification
• Upgraded Lumen framework to 8.x
• Added MAL HeartBeat: an automatic MAL health checker
• Added Indexer artisan commands
• Completely revamped JSON Schema for all API calls
• Added Sentry support for error reporting
• Removed any v2 and v3 stuff and backward compatibility
• Removed Meta API (will later be replaced with Insights)

New API calls

• Anime and Manga Genres listing
• Magazines and Producers listing
• Recent Reviews
• Recent Recommendations
• Top Reviews
• User Clubs, By Id, Search, Reviews, Recommendations
• Anime episode details by episode #
• Watch API
• Random API

Contributions

• Documentation: @PolyMeilex

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Full Changelog: v3...v4

REST API v3.4.5

• User List: fix page returning 1 if passed as route path 92b1a11

REST API v3.4.4

• Bump minimum php ver. to ^7.4
• PHP 7.4 is fully tested

Dependencies needing ^7.4

• "ocramius/package-versions": "^1.4"

REST API v3.4.3

• Removed Blacklist middleware and kernel commands - deprecated last ver.
• Removed SlaveAuth middleware - unused/untested
• UserListQueryBuilder refactored and bug fixes
• Removed unused Voku/AntiXSS dep - unused
• Added patch versioning

REST API v3.4.2

ℹ️ v3 is now maintenance only

• Bug fixes: #138,
• Updated dependencies
• Disable Blacklist middleware (caused Redis issues)
• Increased default processes for Supervisord from 1 -> 3
• Remove any v2 backward compatibility or residue code
• Updated API blueprint

REST API v3.4

New Features

• Bug fixes, refactoring
• Added Artisan Commands
• Added Micro-caching (disabled by default, enable it in .env)
  • Note: Even if enabled, this will only work when CACHE_DRIVER is set to file as it uses Redis to microcache
• Improved IP Blacklisting
• Improved Throttling
• Updated dependency: Jikan PHP API
  • user_id added to User Profile endpoint

UPGRADING NOTICE

New variables have been added in .env.dist and some have been renamed. If you're upgrading, be sure to copy the new/modified variables from .env.dist into your .env.

REST API v3.4.1 RC-2 - Hotfix

• Critical bug fix for the cache updater

REST API v3.4 RC-2

• Upgraded Lumen to v5.8
• Added log rotation for Lumen error logs
• Depreciate v2 endpoint
• Update Jikan PHP API dependency version to ^2.8
• Reduce jikan worker (supervisor) processes to 1 (in conf/supervisor/jikan-worker.conf). You can change this if you've a good amount of slave servers or a very low traffic.
• Added MIT License if it wasn't obvious (How did I forget this?!)
• Added config/logging.php; This allows you to configure your logging driver
• Bug fixes & optimizations

REST API v3.4 RC-1

• Added more artisan commands
• Added request File caching instead of using Redis (CACHE_DRIVER is set to file by default)
• Added options to switch from legacy caching method to queuing (by default it's legacy as queue requires more set up; refer to the readme for installation instructions)
• Removed the need for APP_URL for internal routing
• Bug fixes

REST API v3.3

• Improved GithubReport.php; the report_url generator
• Updated Cache TTL (check .env for values)
• Refactored the response logic; better cache management
• Jikan now queues cache that have past their TTL for an update with Supervisor handling the queue
• Added 404 caching
• Added User List Order/Sort/Filter queries
• Added Search Order/Sort queries
• Added Anime+Manga Search filters for producer and magazine
• Added tests
• Header responses now include X-Request-Hash, X-Request-Cached, X-Request-Cache-Ttl, Expires
• Improved multiple Genre filters: e.g genre=1,2,3,4,5
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements