The other night Seinime comes onto the melative microblog mentioning he’s going to be linking to melative for all the coming Autumn series. Naturally I was like “Shit!” because I hadn’t entered any of that info.1
Well, after a couple hours of searching for resources and whatnot, most of the info was present. Seimine’s early Fall forecast is out.
I once wrote an article on the essence of a Season Preview, with some focus on melative. Today I took a few hours and javascripted a dynamic info-fetcher based on the melative API; mind you, it was in raw javascript, had I been using jQuery it’d likely have been quicker.
It can be found on this page. While the javascript source is here.
Before that, Hold up
Isn’t is like this early to be doing Autumn seasonal stuffs. Here in FL, we’re still on the lookout for afternoon thunderstorms, swimming through the humidity, and wondering why god has forsaken this penisula just when this season will end. Shit, I’m still in summer; and I’ve only sampled two series -_- So anyway…
I’ll get my Autumn seasonal forecast… eventually. /smirk
About the Script
First, it’s very rough.
If anyone cares to copy-pasta and modify it, go for it. It’s probably very easy to mod into a hard-page format (where the info is dynamically loaded into the page, but the page appears solid; no hover-popups).
Second, it uses dynamic <script> injection with a callback from the melative api to MelaMeta.callback, in which the JSON response is passed. The call to the api (/api/media.meta.json) is simply given a parameter such as anime=Kobato, but also a callback parameter and and a cache parameter. Callback is self-explanatory. Cache enables the JSON to be cached by the browser (the default atm is for 30 minutes… the data is not likely to change that often).
Finally, it is activated by an <a> tag with the rel attribute set to “melative” and href linked to a valid melative page (doesn’t really matter what is used). We can link music, events, manga, etc.
