aninidhi

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

What's new in v0.2

• 488 real anime/season records, compiled from each platform's own release history as of September 2026 — not a placeholder sample anymore.
• 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. These ship as null in the bulk-imported data (see "Enriching metadata" below) — filling them in per-title wasn't feasible as part of a bulk import, so two scripts are included to do it.
• 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: [...]. If you wrote code against v0.0.1's schema, 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, "Anime Times (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": "Anime Times (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
aninidhi refresh --url https://raw.githubusercontent.com/you/aninidhi-data/main/anime.json

Data provenance

The bundled dataset (src/aninidhi/data/anime.json) was compiled by cross-referencing each platform's own release calendar (e.g. Crunchyroll's Simulcast Calendar). Snapshot date: September 2026. It will go stale — new dubs release every week — so treat it as a strong starting point, not a live feed:

• Run aninidhi refresh against a URL you control (see "Staying fresh") to serve updates without republishing the package.
• Consider building the automated polling pipeline described in the original project recap (YouTube/RSS/Reddit polling → review queue → publish) to keep it current long-term.
• Sony YAY! and JioHotstar are known to carry Hindi-dubbed anime too but aren't in this snapshot yet — their catalogs are more TV-schedule-based and harder to date precisely from public sources. Good candidates for the next data pass.

Enriching metadata (AniList + IMDb)

The bulk import only had reliable platform/date data, so genres, synopsis, studio, episodes, and the AniList/IMDb ID+URL fields ship as null. Two scripts fill them in, one anime at a time, using each title as a search query:

# AniList - free, no API key needed
python scripts/enrich_anilist.py --limit 5   # try a handful first
python scripts/enrich_anilist.py             # then the rest

# IMDb ratings, via the OMDb API (get a free key: https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx)
export OMDB_API_KEY=your_key_here
python scripts/enrich_imdb.py --limit 5
python scripts/enrich_imdb.py

Neither script has been run against the live APIs — this environment has no internet access, so they're written to AniList's and OMDb's documented interfaces but untested end-to-end. Spot-check a few results before running either over the full 488 records, and expect some no-matches on titles with unusual formatting (cour/part splits especially) since the search is a plain title lookup, not a MAL/AniList ID match.

Staying fresh

aninidhi never requires a server. Point it at any publicly readable JSON file (a GitHub raw URL is the easiest option, and pairs well with a daily GitHub Action that regenerates anime.json) and it does the rest:

export ANINIDHI_SOURCE_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AniNidhi/aninidhi-data/main/anime.json"

• If a source URL is set and the local cache (~/.cache/aninidhi/anime.json) is more than a day old, the next call refreshes it automatically.
• If refreshing fails (offline, source down), it silently falls back to whatever's cached, then to the bundled snapshot. A query never raises just because the network is unavailable.
• 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, so most calling code only needs the field-access changes above.

Development

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

License

MIT