Hey guys, I am a NextJs Dev. I want to make and anime streaming website. Ofcourse I am totally broke. I can’t afford a database. Even if I could how does that work anyways? I mean, do I have to upload every single anime?? That sounds like a lot of work. How do sites like zoro or 9anime deal with it? Do they have their own db? I thought about webscrapping but I am not sure how it’s done, if anybody could explain in detail I would be grateful. I am trying to understand how those stuffs really work. Also, I know an api called Consumet but I want to be able to make my own! I am working on a french anime website so I need to figure out how I can get the animes.

My previous website using Consumet API (still works check it out :)) https://poketv.vercel.app/

  • binboupan@lemmy.kagura.eu
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    1 year ago

    They most likely fetch the torrents for the episodes via RSS feeds (on Nyaa for example) and then upload the video to a 3rd party video hosting service and then link it back in their own player. Almost no site (except the licenced ones) host the videos by themselves.