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AnimeNewsNetwork

Verified Jul 2026

ANN's Encyclopedia API serves anime, manga, person, and company records as XML from cdn.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/api.xml, confirmed live with a real title lookup carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *; the www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/api.php page most integrations bookmark is actually the human-readable documentation front end rather than the data endpoint itself. It's free to use with attribution, capped at one request per second per IP.

animenewsencyclopediametadata
Visit animenewsnetwork.com ↗More Anime
AuthenticationNone requiredCall it straight away — no key, no signup.
HTTPSSupportedTraffic is encrypted in transit.
CORSEnabledCallable directly from browser JavaScript.
PricingFreeNo paid tier — free for the documented use case.
FormatsXMLResponses can be requested as XML.

GreatAPIs Score

Score74out of 100
Authentication25/25No authentication required
Pricing20/20Free to use
Docs0/20No docs or spec available
Formats9/15Single response format
Freshness20/20Verified within 6 months

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Auth quickstart

  1. No key needed — call it now.
Stored keyNo key stored

Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.

Developer reference

Rate limit

1 request/second per IP; requests over this threshold are delayed (or, on the nodelay.api.xml endpoint, rejected with 503), per ANN Encyclopedia API's own Usage Limits documentation

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