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Recipes for specific tasks against the API.

Find a series by name, fetch its full record, and list where to read it. No account or key needed.

curl "https://api.mangabaka.org/v2/series/search?q=frieren&limit=5"

The response has three parts:

  • status: the HTTP status, repeated in the body.
  • pagination: where you are, and a ready-made next URL for the following page.
  • data: the matching series.

Find Frieren: Beyond Journey's End in data and note its id: 1995.

Search returns every content rating, adult titles included, unless you filter with content_rating.

2. Fetch the series#↑

curl "https://api.mangabaka.org/v2/series/1995?schema=full"

data now holds the full record: titles, authors, publishers, rating, tags and links. Without schema=full you get a lighter record with no tags, links or relationships.

  • titles can hold several titles per language. For English, pick the en title with is_primary: true.
  • Check state. When it is merged, the series was folded into another one and merged_with holds the id to use instead. See follow merged and deleted series.

See Get series by id for every field. Some /v2 endpoints are still beta: see versioning and stability.

3. Find where to read it#↑

Each item in links names the site (name_display), its language and its type. A webplatform link is somewhere to read it online, retailer is somewhere to buy it, and publisher is the publisher's own page.

{
	"name_display": "Shounen Sunday",
	"url": "https://websunday.net/work/708/",
	"type": "info",
	"language": "ja"
}

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