After recently discovering Untappd’s RSS feed, I set out to find if AniList had the same hidden feature so I could ingest activity logs to the homepage of pesky.moe. After much searching I found that this wasn’t the case, but AniList did have a an open GraphQL API! I was able to use this to get my user’s activity and pass them along when generating my homepage.
This wasn’t enough. I have the urge to RSS all the things! I then set about creating an RSS feed from my users activity that I can fetch via the API. It wasn’t difficult given that I could reuse the code I had previously written both to fetch the activity and create RSS feeds from my other projects. Putting it all together I open-sourced the repository last weekend along with publishing the feed.
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