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Ok, I love to use AniDb ... if the scrapper will or cannot be updated, then I might undertake the venture to write my own phyton based scrapper.
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Over two years, this scraper has not been updated, and the creator has not been seen. It seems reasonable to infer that the scraper is not maintained.
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Hmm, I just tried to do a search&replace of <title xml:lang="x-jat" type="main"> to
<title type="main" xml:lang="x-jat"> in animetitles.xml and seems it does the trick.
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I downloaded it with no problems just opening the link in Chrome. Make sure your adblock/ublock/whatever is disabled though. I have not tried using wget.
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You are right, once you input "http://anidb.net/api/anime-titles.xml.gz" in a chrome tab with adblock disabled the file downloads without complaint. Trying to download it from the command line (e.g., per wget) fails, as anidb.net has disabled (403 error) the listing of its /api directory.
I wonder whether there is a way for registered users of anidb.net to download anime-titles.xml from within the site's interface; at first glance, I couldn't find any such control.
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I would like to add that the scraper is (1) both commendable and admirable, (2) does its work for anime better than other more widely known and supported scrapers do for movies and tvseries, (3) the only update it needs is a refreshing of the anime-lists (and thanks to those in this thread who helped with it), and (4) the only reason to abandon it would be if the sites which it scrapes deliberately sabotaged it and no one devised appropriate countermeasures.