This is a quick and dirty tool to scrape the MAL database (via the caching service jikan.moe) and insert nodes into a Neo4j graph database.
It uses pipenv for package and virtual env management. Remember to use pipenv install to install the necessary packages, and then pipenv shell to open the newly-created venv.
For example, to load Hideaki Anno (MAL id 5111), every series he has worked on (according to the relationships that are configured in the EntityManager), everyone who worked on THOSE series, and every series THEY worked on:
(mal-cli) $ python mal-cli update -p 5111 -d 3
You can always blow away the contents of the graph database with:
(mal-cli) $ python mal-cli clear
Do not scrape the entire MAL db because they don't like that. This code tries to be respectful of Jikan's rate limits by using exponential backoff with urllib3 retry, but don't push your luck.