Searching for shows

Searching for shows

What is a show

A show is, simply put, one Anime. While most publisher organize all the parts for one Anime into one show, some make a new Show for e.g. a VoD.

For what do I need to search my Show, I already know which one I want to download?

This tool is connected to the API of Funimation. This API needs the unique ID of the Show. You can get it by searching!

Alright, so how do I search?

Searing is quite simple. Just use node funi.js --search "My Hero Academia" (IMPORTANT: Keep the ", please note that My Hero Academia should be replaced with the Show you want). You can also replace the --search with -f like so: node funi.js -f "My Hero Academia".

The result should look something like this:

=== Funimation Downloader NX 4.9.4 ===

[INFO] Search Results:
[#124389] My Hero Academia
[#961384] Stand My Heroes: Piece of Truth
[#100494] Hero Tales
[#532293] My-Otome
[#532290] My-HiME
[#959419] Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious    
[#559009] I Am a Hero
[#21640] Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
[#800830] The Rising of the Shield Hero
[#45809] The Legend of the Legendary Heroes
[#810830] My Roommate is a Cat
[#93940] My Bride is a Mermaid
[#1398913] SD GUNDAM WORLD HEROES
[#500459] In Another World With My Smartphone
[#243738] Nichijou - My Ordinary Life
[#500478] My First Girlfriend is a Gal
[#243920] The Betrayal Knows My Name
[#559581] Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
[#1626949] How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
[#103113] Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy
[#1020444] Uchitama?! Have you seen my Tama?
[#1020376] If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die  
[#1019573] BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense.
[INFO] Total shows found: 23

Please note that the result can vary depending on your search.

I got the output, what next?

You are going to need the ID of the show for the next command. So let's disassemble the output.

=== Funimation Downloader NX 4.9.4 ===

This line is outputted before any command. Here you can get the current version of the downloader. In my case, this would be 4.9.4

[#124389] My Hero Academia

Next is one show result. Here you can see the ID of the show as well as its name. The ID in this case would be 124389, so the number in [] without the #

[INFO] Total shows found: 23

While this doesn't carry any information we are interested in, it shows you how many results have been found based on your search

And that's how you can obtain the ID of a show.