Anilist Notification Reporter

This project is for self use only, not made to be profited by any means.
It wasn't made by Anilist, it's an unofficial release.

This is a mini web server that will let you get a full report of your notifications.
The report includes:

• A list of users and how many likes they gave you.
• Activity's comment sections / Forum thread's comment section that has a reply/mention for you.
• List of users that started following you.
• Any media updates to the site (adding/removing/merging entry).

Installation

This project was written in Node.js and was tested on v14.18.1 .
To install it on linux machine run the following:

sudo apt install nodejs

To install the required dependencies, cd into the project folder and run:

npm install

How to use the server

To start the server, cd to the project folder and run:

npm run main

Once it says that the server started listening,
go to your browser into the following website:

http://localhost:3000/

(The port above is subject to change, it should be the same port as the one found in the .env file)
To stop the server, simply press Ctrl + C in your terminal.
Note: the server will shutdown afte single use of the report button.

In this website, you will have a single link, click to run the script.
Until the next page loads, the server will load all your notifications into his report, once the page loads it will print a JSON report of your notifications.

Soft-block

There are an option to soft block users from being added into the "likes" list. Note: they will still appear in the other lists! (like following, messages, replays, etc. Only on "likes your activity" they won't appear).

To do so, in the resources/input folder add a file softBlock.json with array of strings of the usernames to be softblocked.
For example:

[
  "Name1",
  "Name2"
]

Further places to expand the project

• Currently, it only works with a single user, it can be easily implemented to support more.
  In the meantime deleting all the files inside the resources/output and resources/input/softBlock.json will let you run it like a new user.
• Might be a problem if resources/output folder doesn't exist, need to add a check for that. files will allow it to work with a new user.
• The HTML side of the server is bear bones, can be made much more pretty and to support editing the result report in it (and saving locally).
• Port 3000 is permanent currently, as it is also hard-coded on Anilist client side.
• Can change this whole project from web server to a CLI script. Can't be done since the user need to go to the external website (Anilist) and accept giving token to this app.

Credit

This project was written by @github/NineLord.