aninidhi

Track which anime have official Hindi dubs — across Crunchyroll, Netflix, Muse India, and Prime Video — as a Python library and a CLI.

What's new in v0.2

• 488 real anime/season records, not a placeholder sample.
• Multi-platform dubs: the same anime is often dubbed independently by more than one platform at different times (e.g. Crunchyroll in 2023, then Muse India in 2026). Every anime now carries a hindi_dubs list instead of a single platform/date pair. 37 titles in this dataset are already dubbed on 2+ platforms — run aninidhi multi to see them.
• Schema room for richer metadata: anilist_id, anilist_url, imdb_id, imdb_url, imdb_rating, studio, synopsis, original_title.
• New functions: get_dub_info(), multi_platform_dubs(), platform_stats().
• New CLI commands: info, multi, stats.

⚠️ Breaking change from v0.0.1: the old platform and hindi_dub_release_date fields are gone, replaced by hindi_dubs: [...]. See "Migrating from v0.0.1" below.

Install

pip install aninidhi

Use it as a library

import aninidhi

aninidhi.get_latest(limit=5)              # most recent dub activity, any platform
aninidhi.search("naruto")                 # title search
aninidhi.get_by_platform("crunchyroll")   # anime with a Crunchyroll Hindi dub
aninidhi.get_dub_info("Dan Da Dan")       # full per-platform breakdown for one title
aninidhi.multi_platform_dubs()            # anime dubbed on 2+ platforms
aninidhi.platform_stats()                 # {"Crunchyroll": 298, "Prime Video": 85, ...}
aninidhi.list_all()                       # everything

Every function returns a list of dicts shaped like this:

{
  "id": 83,
  "title": "Dan Da Dan",
  "original_title": null,
  "genres": [],
  "season": null,
  "season_year": null,
  "episodes": null,
  "studio": null,
  "synopsis": null,
  "poster_url": null,
  "mal_id": null,
  "mal_url": null,
  "anilist_id": null,
  "anilist_url": null,
  "imdb_id": null,
  "imdb_url": null,
  "imdb_rating": null,
  "hindi_available": true,
  "hindi_dubs": [
    { "platform": "Prime Video", "release_date": "2024-10-17", "status": "Finished", "media_type": "series" },
    { "platform": "Crunchyroll", "release_date": "2024-10-25", "status": "Finished", "media_type": "series" },
    { "platform": "Muse India", "release_date": "2024-11-16", "status": "Finished", "media_type": "series" }
  ],
  "notes": null
}

Use it from the command line

aninidhi latest -n 5
aninidhi search "spy x family"
aninidhi info "Dan Da Dan"          # per-platform breakdown for one title
aninidhi platform crunchyroll
aninidhi multi                      # anime dubbed on 2+ platforms
aninidhi stats                      # dub count per platform
aninidhi all --json

Staying fresh

aninidhi refreshes itself automatically — no setup required. Once a day, it checks a hosted copy of the dataset and updates its local cache, so you get new dubs without waiting for a new package release. If it can't reach the network, it silently falls back to whatever's cached, then to the snapshot bundled in the package - a query never fails just because you're offline.

To point it at your own copy of the dataset instead, or to turn off the automatic check entirely:

export ANINIDHI_SOURCE_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/you/your-fork/main/anime.json"
# or, to disable the network check completely:
export ANINIDHI_SOURCE_URL=""

Force an immediate refresh any time with aninidhi.refresh(force=True) or aninidhi refresh on the CLI.

Migrating from v0.0.1

# v0.0.1
anime["platform"]
anime["hindi_dub_release_date"]

# v0.2
[d["platform"] for d in anime["hindi_dubs"]]
[d["release_date"] for d in anime["hindi_dubs"]]

# convenience: most recent dub date across all platforms
max(d["release_date"] for d in anime["hindi_dubs"])

get_by_platform() and get_latest() keep the same names and signatures but now search/sort across the whole hindi_dubs list under the hood.

Development

git clone https://github.com/AniNidhi/aninidhi.git
cd aninidhi
pip install -e .
python -m unittest discover -s tests

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how the dataset is sourced and kept up to date.

License

MIT