[Feature Request] Update anime-lists on each github commit

[Abu3safeer]

Hello everyone.

I would like to ask something about anime-lists that filebot uses.
it takes filebot some time to update it's internal anime-lists to match github anime-lists.

is it possible to lower this time by making it update on each github commit to keep it updated as soon as possible?

Thank you.

[rednoah]

is it possible to lower this time by making it update on each github commit to keep it updated as soon as possible?

Unfortunately, no. FileBot doesn't fetch files from GitHub in the first place. If you want, we can manually push and update on the server-side, but you'd still have to clear the client-side cache as well.


By default, you will usually get weekly updates, since your server-side systems push updates weekly and FileBot on the client-side checks for updates weekly.

[Abu3safeer]

Is there a specific day in the week?
I would like to know when to expect the update to avoid clearing the cache

Cache system makes filebot faster in repeated tasks.

[rednoah]

You can use curl to check when the data file was last updated:

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$ curl -I https://api.filebot.net/10714/data/anime-list.xml.xz
...
content-length: 165484
last-modified: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:33:18 GMT
...

If you need a specific update then you can leave a message here and I'll force a new build.




You can use the explain script to check if a specific mapping line exists in the current model:

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$ filebot -script fn:explain --q '18901'
"Oshi no Ko" (2026) [AniDB::18901]
"Oshi no Ko" [AniDB::18901]
Oshi no Ko [AniDB::18901]
Oshi no Ko (2026) [AniDB::18901]
[推しの子] (2026) [AniDB::18901]
[推しの子] [AniDB::18901]
推しの子 [AniDB::18901]
Oshi no Ko S3 [AniDB::18901]
Oshi no Ko 3 [AniDB::18901]
<anime anidbid="18901" tvdbid="421069" tmdbtv="203737" tmdbid="203737" defaulttvdbseason="3" tmdbseason="1" tmdboffset="24"><name>"Oshi no Ko" (2026)</name><tvdbname>Oshi No Ko</tvdbname></anime>

Note that FileBot will check for updates of the data file every 4 days. So you generally don't need to clear the cache since client-side FileBot is checking for updates twice a week anyway, even though we only expect server-side updates every 1-2 weeks.