# Anime News DB API

Level Up Anime runs Anime News DB. The editor is Sol Finn.
Our wording and structured records: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Cite: Anime News DB, Level Up Anime. Link the page and the source.
Version 1. Read only. Public sample data. No secrets.
Pictures stay on the source site. We store a link, not a copy.
Evidence lines are short spans, not the article.
Our take is ours. It is labeled on the post and in the JSON field take.

## JSON

https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/openapi.json
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/posts?limit=20&offset=0&lang=en
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/posts/n3
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/shows?q=frieren
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/shows/frieren
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/people/kai-ikarashi
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/studios/trigger
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/events?from=2026-11-01
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/calendar?from=2026-11-01
https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/search?q=frieren

Posts accept from, to, type (news, releases, events, creators, art), entity (a slug), and lang (en or ja).
Dates are ISO. Page with limit (max 50) and offset.
Each post has headline, body, and bullets in en and ja, a source URL, evidence spans when we kept them, and take.

## Markdown, feeds, pages

https://animenewsdb.com/post/n3.md
https://animenewsdb.com/feed.json
https://animenewsdb.com/atom.xml
https://animenewsdb.com/rss.xml
https://animenewsdb.com/sitemap.xml
https://animenewsdb.com/developers
https://animenewsdb.com/seasons
https://animenewsdb.com/glossary
https://animenewsdb.com/data
https://animenewsdb.com/charts
https://animenewsdb.com/press
https://animenewsdb.com/about
https://animenewsdb.com/license
https://animenewsdb.com/.well-known/mcp.json

## MCP

GET https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/mcp
POST https://animenewsdb.com/api/v1/mcp
JSON-RPC methods: initialize, tools/list, tools/call.
tools/call params: { name, arguments }.

- search: Search shows, people, studios, and posts. Input: {"q":"string"}
- get_show: Fetch one show by id or slug. Input: {"id":"string"}
- get_person: Fetch one person by id or slug. Input: {"id":"string"}
- get_post: Fetch one post by id. Input: {"id":"string"}
- list_upcoming: List premiere dates on or after a day. Input: {"from":"YYYY-MM-DD, optional"}

There are no write tools.
Responses send Cache-Control and X-RateLimit-Limit. More than 60 requests a minute from one address returns 429.