API V2 Beta Documentation

WaniKani API And Third-Party Apps
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Hi all,

Just want to give a heads up on changes we will be releasing on Monday.

  1. We have started a WaniKani API mailing list. This is for new, announcements, and updates in regards to the WaniKani API. The mailing list can be found here.
  2. Subjects (Radical, Kanji, Vocabulary) payloads are going to include all the WaniKani content such as the mnemonics, pronunciation audio, context sentences, et cetera. The current structure and attributes will remain the same, but they’ll now be additional attributes to cover the additions. I recommend you all review the Terms of Service, especially the API section. If you have a public application please respect the subscription restrictions. You all can now stop scraping our website :stuck_out_tongue:
  3. Speaking of adding our content to the Subject payloads we have finished recording and editing new audio for all vocabulary in our system. This content will be live only in API v2 for now. We plan on replacing the old audio currently being delivered on the web app with the new audio in the near future. The new audio is a native male speaker (with a less pronounced Tokyo accent). We are finishing up the native female speaker and will include her pronunciations. In the end there will be a set of male audio and female audio.
  4. The /user endpoint payload will be going through a breaking change due to a restructuring. It will not break on Monday’s update. We will maintain the old attributes and include the new structure. Eventually we will drop the old attributes. The change is in regards to the information we return concerning the user’s subscription status. Attributes max_level_granted_by_subscription and subscribed Will be consolidated in a nested object, thus will be dropped. Please review the API v2 doc mentioned in item 5 for the new structure.
  5. We have published API v2 docs that is current with Monday’s update. You can find it here. This will replace the documentation in this topics original post going forward.
  6. With this update we are moving from alpha to beta for API v2. We have one breaking change and following that will be adding additional HTTP methods to existing endpoints.
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