API don't return some attribute of anime when requesting popular anime

[Former user]

When I get the popular anime they don't have the synopsis and the broadcast as it's not specified in the docs if it's "Only available in anime detail requests" I was wondering.

[Michael Johnson]

A lot of those descriptions were written before features to the API like popular titles were added and are a little outdated. I don't believe MAL provides those details on the page of popular titles, so we can't get them without scraping the details page of every title.

This is potentially more an issue with needing to re-visit the documentation rather than an actual bug in the API.

[Former user]

I was thinking that it was more a problem with doc than with API but I wasn't sure.

Thanks

[Ratan Dhawtal]

@motokochan If I am right there was a minor synopsis available for popular. So it got included... The anime and manga parsers were the first written codes so the doc is a bit outdated.

[Michael Johnson]

I believe MAL changed some things and now you have to call additional pages to grab the details now. I can look into it a bit more, but would rather avoid hitting the MAL server an additional 50 times per API request. It's an easy way to get banned for TOS violation.

[Former user]

I made a pull request for the broadcast attribute because it's on available in the detail request.

For the synopsis it's seems to be only for the popular anime, I take a look at the page on MAL and the information is in an hidden element of the DOM but I doubt that it can be used. What your opinion ?