Notes

This script can be used with the official seasonal challenge code or any other of their codes like for the monthly challenges. It also supports custom codes as long as some key features remain the same, these would be:

Header:

• Challenge Start Date: and Challenge End Date:
• Line that starts with Legend: and contains [] Brackets with the Completed Symbol first and the Not Completed Symbol second

Body (for each anime):

• 1st Line: Contains [] Brackets with the Completed or Not Completed symbol
• 2nd Line: Contains Link to the Anime
• 3rd Line: Starts with Start:

If there is a need for it I can add support for other formats, just create an issue.

Setup

Set the variables in .env.example and rename the file to .env or if you are running it in a container set the environment variables there.

Run npm install once before running the script.

Configuration

API Token

ANILIST_API_TOKEN=your_api_token

To get the api token for ANILIST_API_TOKEN go to the following url or click here, you may need to login to get the token.

https://anilist.co/api/v2/oauth/authorize?client_id=10674&response_type=token

Comment Links

If you want to use it in a container it may be more convenient to set the COMMENTS environment variable than using the comments.json file, just add the links to the comments seperated with a , it should look like this:

COMMENTS=https://anilist.co/forum/thread/59679/comment/2077484,https://anilist.co/forum/thread/61848/comment/2155941

You can also use the comments.json file. Just run the script with npm start this will create the comments.json file in the root of the directory. Next add the links of the comments you want to update to the array in the file like this:

[
    "https://anilist.co/forum/thread/59679/comment/2077484",
    "https://anilist.co/forum/thread/61848/comment/2155941"
]

Other Settings

DEBUG=false
SCHEDULE=0 0 * * *

In the .env file you can set DEBUG to true to see the new comments in the output.

SCHEDULE sets when the script should run (except for the first time) the default is every day at midnight see this to help you set the schedule. Leave it blank to run only once.

Running

run the script with npm start