Add another background provider

[Ninelpienel]

Hello, unfortunately AniList doesn't offer proper backgrounds, so it would be great if you could add the typical sources for that (TheTVDB, TheMovieDb).

[sachaw]

We would have to use a source that has a MAL id listed for the entry, if you know of one, please let me know

[Ninelpienel]

Is it not possible to search for the name? Could you check how Hama.bundle does this? I don't think there is any big tv show or movie db with MAL support.

[sachaw]

I'm apposed to that, it's proven unreliable in the past and a pain to implement. Many other tracking sites also reference the MAL id, kistu etc. If any of those have covers it may be a way forwards

[Ninelpienel]

Do you have an alternative solution until that happens? Manually assigning hundreds of images would be extremely time-consuming.

[sachaw]

Do the background images provided by https://kitsu.io suffice?

[Ninelpienel]

Can you show me an example?

[sachaw]

Literally just go to the site, pick an anime and see if it has the kind of covers your expecting i.e. https://kitsu.io/anime/cop-craft

[Ninelpienel]

Are you talking about this image? https://media.kitsu.io/anime/cover_images/42174/original.jpg

That won't work, backgrounds have to be 16:9.

[sachaw]

Some covers are better aspect ratio, bobop for example https://media.kitsu.io/anime/1/cover_image/fb57e5f25616633a41f0f5f1ded938ee.jpeg

[Ninelpienel]

Yeah, but most of them won't fit. :/

[sachaw]

Unless you can find another source that meets the criteria, that's gonna be as good as it gets, feel free to open a PR if you have a better idea

[Fribb]

Would https://github.com/Fribb/anime-lists be what you are looking for? It generates a list of matched entries across different providers in a JSON format.