API Bugs

Hi,

I would like to point out some API errors.

Tags

Sample images for tags result in an invalid URI.

Example: https://api.fakku.net/tags


Search

Doesn't work at as explained. You cannot make multiple search requests with "+" and "-" operators.

Example: https://api.fakku.net/search/hentai%20-yaoi

Providing anything that is not a tag results in an error. It would seem this is just a mirror api for tags and is not properly implemented. If no results are found it should return that information. Using this search API becomes pointless at this state.

Example: https://api.fakku.net/search/ash-yokoshima

Other

• You cannot list artists.

• You cannot list series.

• You cannot list translators.

• You cannot list posts of a forum topic.

• You cannot request higher resolution sample images. This is required for higher density displays.

• "latest" is an invalid category type, I believe this is replaced with "newest". This suggests documentation is old.

And while we are on the topic of api bugs.

- User favorites are still broken. Except for the jacob profile which apparently gets cached
- The 503 error doesn't match the API documentation. The refresh URL is never part of the return object
- Some APIs return more pages then there actually are. But I mean even the website does that with favorites.

@waterflame, I believe in some cases search should be case insensitive (such as tags, unlike titles). The comma spaced, capitalized separated link doesn't work for me, but the space separated, capitalized link does.

Side note I found favorites work as a category for manga and doujinshi. But It would be a lot better for user favorites, as you pointed out @xibiter.

I would also like to point out that forum topic posts listing doesn't seem to work either.

I've found that I always get the 503 error when I use the api to search for anything when a space (%20) is used.

If I then remove the "api." from the url and perform the search using the website I get results.

Performing the search via the api again now returns the results in JSON.

My guess is that there's some server side caching going on, and the api isn't triggering the same generation that the website is.

Interesting. I wish I could get access to the server code to see what was going on. 😔

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a mess. 😜

I'd like to add that every category except for index ( http://api.fakku.net/index ) returns an error saying that
there is nothing there.

Example: http://api.fakku.net/manga

If, however, we use a valid manga from that category, like https://api.fakku.net/manga/right-now-while-cleaning-the-pool,
we get exactly what we want.

Oh wow, it really seems kind of obvious now that it should work that way.
And here I was, wondering why nobody else mentioned that the categories didn't work.

Thanks a lot for that information.