Akiba

Akiba is an utility for managing anime for Jellyfin, It can rename and export stub-NFO files.

Jellyfin does not like AniDBs absolute file numbering akiba can parse these and will query anidb to generate small stub NFO files. Additionally akiba can identify and rename files similarly to adbren.

For best results enable only the AniDB provider in the library in Jellyfin as this is these are the only IDs we can guarantee to be present. An attempt will be made to also map Anilist IDs, these are generally also present. Additionally tmdb tv IDs are also mapped but only for the first season.

Known Issues

• #13197 Jellyfin 10.10.x does not seem to parse episode NFOs season
• #11575 Jellyfin 10.9.x+ needs to have Display specials within seasons they aired in checked in order to work around a bug with virtual seasons.

Install

Install dependancies and compile static binary

Warning

The postinstall hook will compile a static binary, in addition to using sed to work around an issue in anidb-udp-client dependancy. I'm not proud of this hack, but until there is a new release, this is the only way to consistantly fix it.

bun install

Copy bin/akiba to somewhere in your path.

# local user
cp bin/akiba ~/.local/bin

# system wide
sudo cp bin/akiba /usr/local/bin

Usage

Some configuration is required for akiba to be useable. The minimal configuration changes depending on the command you wish to use.

The cache path can only be changed at first run. (There is no code in place to handle cache path moves) To use a non-default cache path set the XDG_CACHE_HOME variable before running the configure command the first time.

export XDG_CACHE_HOME="/mnt/anime/.cache"
akiba configure

Command: idmap

To manage local aid to anilist id or tmdb tv id mappings, you do not need any additional configuration to run this command.o

# Map the tmdb tv series for Ranma1/2 (2024)
akiba idmap 18700 --tmdbid 259140

# Unmap the tmdb tv series for Ranma1/2 (2024)
akiba idmap 18700 --no-tmdbid --no-show

# Blacklist a potential incorrect mapping from the tmdb idmap provider
akiba idmap 18700 --tmdbid -1

# Show additional flags
akiba idmap --help

Command: write-nfo

Writes tvshow.nfo and episode.nfo files, this requires that an AniDB HTTP Client identifier is configured.

Please register a project on https://anidb.net/software/add, and add a HTTP client.

# required
akiba configure --anidb-http-client examplehttpclient/1
# optional: enable saving poster.jpg
akiba configure --anidb-poster
# optional: overwrite nfo files by default
akiba configure --overwrite-nfo

Aside from using the local akiba idmap command, we also use Fribb's Anime-List. If a verified mapping is not present in either of these, the Anilist and tmdb API can be used to do a search. This however required additional configuration.

Requesting: anilist token

1. visit https://anilist.co/settings/developer
2. click Create New Client
3. enter https://anilist.co/api/v2/oauth/pin as the Redirect URL
4. approve the generated token by visting https://anilist.co/api/v2/oauth/authorize?client_id={clientID}&response_type=token (do not forget to replace clientID in the URL!)

akiba configure --anilist-token MY_VERY_LONG_TOKEN_STRING_HERE

Requesting: tmdb api key

TMDBs Getting Started

akiba configure --tmdb-api-key TMDB_API_KEY

Command: rename

Tries to identify and rename files, this requires that an AniDB UDP Client identifier is configured.

Please register a project on https://anidb.net/software/add, and add a UDP client and your username and password is configured

# required: udp client and authentication
akiba configure --anidb-udp-client exampleudpclient/1
akiba configure --anidb-auth-username clevergirl --anidb-auth-password hunter1
# optional: set UDP API key to enable encryption
# It's labeled "UDP API Key" under your profile, but it's more of a PSK
akiba configure --anidb-auth-api-key swordfish
# optional: set the filename format
akiba configure --rename-format "{anime_name_romaji:upper_first}/{anime_name_romaji}/{anime_name_romaji} - {episode:number} - {episode_name} ({crc32:lower}).{filetype}"
# optional: set target directory (restore to use current work directory with --no-rename-target-path)
akiba configure --rename-target-path /mnt/anime

If you are migrating from adbren here are the presets updates for use with akiba.

"{anime_name_english}_{episode}{version]-{group_short}.{filetype}"
"{anime_name_english}_{episode}{version}_{episode_name}-{group_short}.{filetype}"
"{anime_name_english}_{episode}{version}_{episode_name}-{group_short}({crc32}).{filetype}"
"{anime_name_romaji} - {episode} - {episode_name} ({crc32}).{filetype}"
"[{group_short}] {anime_name_english} - {episode} - {episode_name} ({crc32}).{filetype}"