GET /api/v1/titles/random
randomTitle
needs catalog:read
curl https://api.acyka.cc/api/v1/titles/random?lang=en \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ACYKA_TOKEN" Asking #
Narrowing it
| field | type | what it is |
|---|---|---|
lang may be absent | string | undefined | which of a title's three names leads: `en` (romaji), `ru`, `ja`, `uk`, `uz`. Defaults to `en`. |
Answering #
200 TitleCard
The shapes #
TitleCard #
A title as it appears in a list.
`id` is the shikimori id and is the only key this catalogue has ever had. It is a number here rather than a string, unlike the ids above: these are five and six digits and always will be, since they are somebody else's sequence and not ours to outgrow.
| field | type | what it is |
|---|---|---|
id | number | |
title | string | |
title_orig may be absent | string | undefined | |
poster may be absent | string | undefined | |
year may be absent | number | undefined | |
kind | string | `tv` | `movie` | `ova` | `ona` | `special` | `music` |
episodes | number | |
score may be absent | number | undefined | The one number a reader sees: what the people here think of it and what the outside number said, weighed against each other. |
When it says no #
A refusal is { "message": "errors.something" } — a phrase name and never a
sentence, because one screen can be read in five languages. Every library turns the name into a
type, so you catch the class you can do something about. Errors has
the list.