# AniList

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/anilist/  
**Website:** https://anilist.co/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

AniList is an anime and manga database, tracking, and social platform serving over 500,000 anime and manga entries along with character, staff, studio, user, activity, review, recommendation, and forum thread data. The primary developer surface is a free public GraphQL API at https://graphql.anilist.co, with OAuth2 authentication (Authorization Code, Implicit, and Auth Pin flows) for read/write operations against user list and social data.

## Kin Score — 40.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 27.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 38.2 |
| Access Clarity | 38.2 |

## Agent readiness — 44.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **AniList GraphQL API v2** — The AniList GraphQL API v2 is the primary public developer interface for AniList.co. It exposes anime, manga, character, staff, studio, user, activity, review, recommendation, t...
- **AniList GraphQL API** — GraphQL query and mutation endpoint
- **AniList OAuth2 API** — OAuth2 authorization code and implicit grant endpoints

## Agentic access (1)

- **Anilist Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Anilist Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Anilist Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Use cases (7)

- **Anime/Manga Discovery Apps** — Browse and search the catalog by season, format, genre, tag, popularity, score, source, country of origin, and free-text query.
- **Personal Tracker & List Sync** — Authenticated apps can read and write a user's watching/reading/completed/paused/dropped/planning lists, custom lists, scores, and progress.
- **Airing Calendar / Notification Bots** — Discord, Telegram, and web bots that surface upcoming episode airings, season schedules, and per-user notifications.
- **Social & Community Frontends** — Alternative frontends that render activity feeds, reviews, recommendations, and forum threads.
- **Recommendation Engines** — Build recommendation systems using user list data, scoring, genres, tags, and the built-in Recommendation graph.
- **Data Visualization & Analytics** — Trend dashboards, AniChart-style seasonal charts, and statistics visualizations built on MediaTrend and SiteStatistics queries.
- **GraphQL Codegen / Typed Clients** — Generate strongly typed clients in TypeScript, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Dart, and others against the public schema for editor-completion and compile-time safety.

## Tags

Anime, Manga, Entertainment, Media, Social, Database, GraphQL, Authentication, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/anilist/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.