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Irfan edited this page Dec 30, 2021 · 3 revisions

ℹ This configuration guide is for Jikan REST API v4 only.

Environemnt Variables

This is your .env file after Installation

APP_URL

Set your APP_URL right after installation.

  • APP_URL=http://localhost

Configuring MongoDB

If you installed a self-managed MongoDB server then be sure to fill out so Jikan can communicate with your MongoDB server

###
# Database Caching (MongoDB)
###
DB_CACHING=true
DB_CONNECTION=mongodb
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=27017
DB_DATABASE=jikan // MongoDB jikan database
DB_ADMIN=jikan // MongoDB admin database
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=

MAX_RESULTS_PER_PAGE

Pages like Search or Top return a number of maximum entries per page. You can configure this to however you like.

MAX_RESULTS_PER_PAGE=30

MyAnimeList Connection

This is where you can manage the connection configurations being made with MyAnimeList. v4 is equipped with a feature called MyAnimeList HeartBeat which monitors successful requests. It can return this information at the root of your instance localhost/v4

e.g https://api.jikan.moe/v4

  "myanimelist_heartbeat": {
    "status": "HEALTHY",
    "score": 1.0204081632653061,
    "down": false,
    "last_downtime": 0
  }

SOURCE here refers to where the data is fetched from. When SOURCE=local, Jikan will attempt to query the MongoDB database for API calls like search. This is only supported for a limited number of API calls and the rest of the API calls are directly parsed from MyAnimeList.

⚠ SOURCE=myanimelist allows direct parsing of MyAnimeList search pages. This will return a different response than usual. ⚠ This feature is currently experimental. Not Recommended for use.

###
# Enable MyAnimeList Heartbeat
#
# Monitor bad requests to determine whether MyAnimeList is down
#
# Fallback once the following threshold is reached
###
SOURCE=local
SOURCE_BAD_HEALTH_THRESHOLD=10 
# Recheck source availability (in seconds)
SOURCE_BAD_HEALTH_RECHECK=10
# Fail count only within specified time range (in seconds)
SOURCE_BAD_HEALTH_RANGE=30
# Max Fail stores
SOURCE_BAD_HEALTH_MAX_STORE=50
# Disable failover if the score reaches the following (0.0-1.0 values ONLY)
# e.g 0.9 means 90% successful requests to MyAnimeList
SOURCE_GOOD_HEALTH_SCORE=0.9
# Max time request is allowed to take
# https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_TIMEOUT.html
SOURCE_TIMEOUT=10

Caching

An additional layer of caching can be added with file, redis or any other supported Lumen Caching methods.

###
# Caching (File, Redis, etc)
# Can be added over DB Caching
###
CACHING=false
CACHE_DRIVER=array
CACHE_METHOD=queue

You can configure Redis Caching as a Database here: https://github.com/jikan-me/jikan-rest/blob/v4/config/database.php

You can configure any other caching method here: https://github.com/jikan-me/jikan-rest/blob/v4/config/cache.php

ℹ️ Jikan REST API v4 currently supports Redis and File Caching. Implementing any other type of caching may require additional development on your end.

You can configure caching for specific API calls. The simple version of it is in .env

# Caching TTL (in seconds) on specific endpoints
CACHE_DEFAULT_EXPIRE=86400 # 1 day
CACHE_META_EXPIRE=300 # 5 minutes
CACHE_USER_EXPIRE=300 # 5 minutes
CACHE_USERLIST_EXPIRE=3600 # 1 hour
CACHE_404_EXPIRE=604800 # 7 days
CACHE_SEARCH_EXPIRE=432000 # 5 days
CACHE_PRODUCERS_EXPIRE=432000 # 5 days
CACHE_MAGAZINES_EXPIRE=432000 # 5 days

If you want a more extensive version for every API call, you can configure the following: https://github.com/jikan-me/jikan-rest/blob/v4/config/controller.php

Redis Caching

###
# Redis Caching Configuration
###
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379

MicroCaching

###
# Micro Caching
# Uses CACHE_DRIVER
###
MICROCACHING=false
MICROCACHING_EXPIRE=5 // 5 seconds

Github Reporting

On parser-level errors, the JSON response may return a error_url which is an auto-generated Github issue with the details needed to debug it. You can toggle this for your instance and even change the repository information.

###
# GitHub generate report URL on fatal errors
###
GITHUB_REPORTING=true
GITHUB_REST="jikan-me/jikan-rest" // The REST API repo
GITHUB_API="jikan-me/jikan" // the Parser repo

Error Reporting

Jikan REST API v4 currently supports error reporting with SENTRY. You can toggle or configure this as per your needs.

###
# Error reporting
###
REPORTING=true
REPORTING_DRIVER=sentry
SENTRY_LARAVEL_DSN="https://[email protected]/0"
SENTRY_TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE=1

For advanced Sentry configuration: https://github.com/jikan-me/jikan-rest/blob/v4/config/sentry.php

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