ACGWatch Documentation

ACGWatch Documentation

Welcome to ACGWatch — a curated metadata platform for Anime, Comics, and Games.

What is ACGWatch?

ACGWatch is a discovery platform that aggregates and organizes metadata for:

  • Anime — TV series, movies, OVAs, specials
  • Manga — serialized comics, one-shots, anthologies
  • Light Novels — Japanese-style illustrated novels
  • Illustration — art collections and doujin artwork

Features

Browse by Category

Visit /anime, /manga, /novel, or /illustration to browse works within each category. Each page supports pagination and shows cover art, scores, and status.

Rankings

The /ranking page shows weekly, monthly, and yearly top charts calculated from real view counts. Rankings are recalculated every hour via a scheduled Cloudflare Worker cron job.

Activity Feed

The /activity page shows the latest uploads and updates across all categories — bookmark this page to stay up to date.

Tags

Browse works by tag at /tags. Tags are grouped by category (anime, manga, novel, illustration) and sorted by work count.

Use the search bar in the navigation to search Google for content on ACGWatch (site:acgwatch.com search), or use the API directly.

API

ACGWatch exposes a public REST API powered by Cloudflare Workers and D1 (SQLite).

Base URL: https://acgwatch-function-worker.cifangbifang.workers.dev

Authentication: All ACG API endpoints require the X-API-Key header.

Key Endpoints

MethodPathDescription
GET/api/acg/:categoryPaginated list of works
GET/api/acg/:category/:idWork detail
GET/api/acg/search?q=Full-text search
GET/api/acg/activityRecent uploads/updates
GET/api/acg/tagsAll tags
GET/api/acg/tags/:slugWorks by tag
GET/api/ranking/:period/:categoryPre-calculated rankings

Full interactive API documentation is available at /docs.

Internationalization

ACGWatch supports 7 languages:

LanguageCode
English (default)en
繁體中文zh-TW
简体中文zh-CN
한국어ko
Españoles
Italianoit
Deutschde

Language can be switched from the navbar or footer.

Dark Mode

ACGWatch automatically follows your system's dark/light preference. You can also toggle it manually using the moon/sun icon in the navbar or footer.