API Whitelisting

Jul 25, 2014 2:15 AM

#21

henosis

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Mar 2012

Just submitted a request! And erengy, thanks for the format breakdown.

Jul 28, 2014 11:15 AM

#22

shinigamibob

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Jun 2009

I submitted a request about a week ago and I've yet to get any emails with the details.

Anyone know if new requests are being fulfilled or what's going on? I can't continue developing my program without access to a working API.

Jul 31, 2014 9:22 AM

#23

henosis

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Mar 2012

I still haven't received mine either.

Mar 16, 2015 8:52 AM

#24

TocoToucan

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Nov 2011

Is MAL whitelisting broken? I don't get any feedback for about two weeks.

Mar 19, 2015 7:07 AM

#25

whereisallthe

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TocoToucan said:
Is MAL whitelisting broken? I don't get any feedback for about two weeks.

It can be a handful of things. I don't know for sure, but my guess is that if you don't get an email back, you didn't meet their requirements for whitelisting. I could be wrong, they may not read the requests anymore.

In any case, Xinil stills seems to be active. So without a doubt he know people are unsatisfied with the wait times.

Apr 1, 2015 2:32 PM

#26

Gravewish

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Feb 2012

I'd also be interested in knowing the state of the whitelisting. I applied last week for a website I've been building that could use some MAL API access and there has been no reply as of today.

Any idea why? It's the only reason I haven't opened up my site to the public yet...

Apr 5, 2015 2:08 AM

#27

erengy

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Quoting Xinil from some other thread:

Xinil said:
Just a heads up here guys: We're hoping to have a new strategy in place by the end of this month (around the 20th [January 2015] is the goal.) Unfortunately current whitelisting additions and changes are on hold until then. I'm really sorry for the inconveniences!

I think this got postponed among other priorities.

Apr 30, 2015 3:23 PM

#28

Gravewish

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Feb 2012

It'd be great if someone could update us on the API whitelisting process... I'd love to finally get http://www.monthly.moe whitelisted...

GravewishApr 30, 2015 3:27 PM

Jun 9, 2015 12:57 PM

#29

alfazeroneko

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Jan 2014

I clicked the link for the MAL thingy, but I don't need to right? Cause I never made an application, although I really want to make a new top about the QnA for MyAnimeList. What do I do?

Alfazeroneko will come back, surely he will be back from the dead :)

Jun 10, 2015 3:09 PM

#30

Gravewish

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Feb 2012

So, umm... My current 270+ users of http://www.monthly.moe would absolutely love to be white-listed :)

Any status update on this process? I made the request over 3 months ago.

Jun 19, 2015 6:15 AM

#31

erengy

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@LordGravewish Is this still an issue? Last month, when I tried sending some requests without a whitelisted user-agent, they all succeeded. It still works, at least for the search method.

erengy said:
It seems that the API no longer requires clients to provide a whitelisted user-agent. Can anyone else confirm?

Jul 5, 2015 8:31 PM

#32

Gravewish

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Feb 2012

erengy said:
@LordGravewish Is this still an issue? Last month, when I tried sending some requests without a whitelisted user-agent, they all succeeded. It still works, at least for the search method.

erengy said:
It seems that the API no longer requires clients to provide a whitelisted user-agent. Can anyone else confirm?

Just double-checked, API requests still fail very frequently without a whitelisted user-agent, at least for Monthly.moe. Though I use it to sync user profiles, so I use malappinfo.php, not search.

I've been using some tricks to avoid that (using a normal, up-to-date browser user-agent, attempting to pretend to be a normal website user by "visiting" another MAL page first, and then sending the Incapsula cookies with the API request seems to help a bit, for example, as well as forcing 30 minutes+ intervals between each request), but it's still a pain in the ass, and everything could be avoided if I could just get white-listed.

GravewishJul 5, 2015 8:38 PM

Jul 7, 2015 8:51 AM

#33

sasukeskapa

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Feb 2012

erengy said:
It seems that the API no longer requires clients to provide a whitelisted user-agent. Can anyone else confirm?

I tried using the API and it fails for me unless I use it through a browser. It fails for me if I use it with curl or Java. Only going through a looooot of hops can I get it to work and I can't automate them, which makes my site / program kinda pointless and painful to maintain / use.

(I also tried applying for being whitelisted, but nothing happened and am in the process of giving this (https://bitbucket.org/ratan12/atarashii-api) a try as Kineta suggested on IRC. (But it seems less and less fit for my use-case, the more I know about it.))

Jul 7, 2015 8:47 PM

#34

pafk

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Mar 2015

Reading this I'm starting to worry about getting whitelisted. Does the malappinfo.php ned whitelisting or is there something else happening with it? Does anyone on here know anything about the original issue which was the three months without any word on the whitelist? Should I just look at using another website's api?

Jul 18, 2015 5:37 PM

#35

Gravewish

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Feb 2012

pafk said:
Reading this I'm starting to worry about getting whitelisted. Does the malappinfo.php ned whitelisting or is there something else happening with it? Does anyone on here know anything about the original issue which was the three months without any word on the whitelist? Should I just look at using another website's api?

From reports, it seems the official API (search, etc) does not require whitelisting if you don't use it too often, but take this information with a grain of salt as I don't personally use the official API.

However, malappinfo.php is not part of the official API, and from my person experience it needs whitelisting - when not using very complex work-arounds they seem to block almost all my automated requests, even when waiting a few hours between each one.

Jul 18, 2015 5:45 PM

#36

erengy

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Nov 2007

725

In case you missed it, here's a relevant discussion:
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1403736

Xinil said:
We're working on a better method for developers to get whitelisted/access to our API. My apologies for not responding if you've sent me a message. We hear you and are actively pursuing fixes.

Xinil said:
The whitelist process is being refactored, so unfortunately there's not much good either of those methods will do you today. /malappinfo.php should be whitelisted for all transactions, but scraping is still a problem.

Aug 4, 2015 2:20 AM

#37

sasukeskapa

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Feb 2012

I don't think it's (malappinfo) whitelisted. If it is, then it's not working properly. It's only accessible from browsers. (Try curl and it will return incapsula's iframe instead of the xml.)

Aug 10, 2015 5:55 AM

#38

pafk

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Mar 2015

Non whitelisted malappinfo is working for me now when I include status and type as post variables (but also as get variables).

Get variables alone is still giving me incapsula though.

EDIT

Nope not working anymore. Incapsula is longer blocking me though, its telling me that its a 400 bad request. Aaaaaaand it gives incapsula again.

pafkAug 10, 2015 6:33 AM

Aug 10, 2015 3:10 PM

#39

ifonefox

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May 2011

Pafk, I am having the same thing. If I use the whitelisted user agent, it works. If I use an incorrect or missing user agent, I get the Incapsula page.

Nov 6, 2015 7:04 PM

#40

asmdz

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Jul 2015

Is the api whitelist form still being checked? I submitted a request a little over 2 days ago and still haven't gotten a response :/

Nov 7, 2015 12:05 PM

#41

pafk

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Mar 2015

asmdz said:
Is the api whitelist form still being checked? I submitted a request a little over 2 days ago and still haven't gotten a response :/

No the form is not being checked, word of g-d is that you no longer need a whitelisted agent. While this appears to be true for api calls the same doesn't appear to be the case for scraping. If all you need is to use the api test it out now, you should likely be able to make the calls. (Just ran my own little code snippet to make sure that I am still able to use the api call and am still not able to make the call to a page not restricted by the robots.txt)

Nov 18, 2015 11:29 AM

#42

pokedev

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Dec 2014

I am starting API development for making a somewhat anime list app on my own for a project, can I get a temporary API key? for testing? Or I have to fill up the form? I'm unsure cause I don't even have a name for my app yet, but I wanted to start coding. Thanks

Dec 13, 2015 9:50 AM

#43

Tulicloure

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Dec 2012

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pokedev said:
I am starting API development for making a somewhat anime list app on my own for a project, can I get a temporary API key? for testing? Or I have to fill up the form? I'm unsure cause I don't even have a name for my app yet, but I wanted to start coding. Thanks

You can edit the form later, keeping the same whitelisted user-agent.

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