Automated streaming Anime website

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Sonic_is_slow

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Sup guys
I’m building an anime streaming site for non-English-speaking countries like Vietnam. Getting English embeds is easy, but finding good non-English subtitle sources is much harder, so I usually scrape them from other sites.
The site’s goal is to be fully automated pulling new anime info from APIs like TMDB or AniList and auto-updating embed links from existing hosts (I don’t want to host videos myself). The only big challenge is matching the exact episodes between the API data and the scraped embed links. I tries to build it from scratch using ai dev tools like cursor or else but ai have limitations and can not scrap or ...

So I’ve got a few questions:
  • Should I use WordPress with plugins/themes or build everything from scratch?
  • What’s the best way to match episode data from APIs with scraped links?
  • Any advice on automating updates and subtitles without hosting videos?
Would love to hear your thoughts or experience any tips help a lot!
 
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I won’t rely heavily on ads to make money I plan to use cryptojacking and other strategies after I build an audience, once I have the community and visitors, I can monetize them.
 
I’d automate everything except the final check, a tiny human verification prevents huge mismatches.
 
Interesting project. For the WordPress vs. custom build question, if you're looking for deep control over data handling and complex matching logic, building from scratch often gives you more flexibility in the long run. WP can get messy fast with very custom data structures for something this specific.
 
What kind of hosting & bandwidth setup do you recommend for high-traffic automated streaming sites?
 
following!
Question: Are you offshore hosting? i understand you embed, dont you get their ads when you embed? SEO? backlinks? anything you think of?
 
Delontekoq said:
following!
Question: Are you offshore hosting? i understand you embed, dont you get their ads when you embed? SEO? backlinks? anything you think of?
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Yes for now I’m using an offshore VPS + Cloudflare for static assets and caching. I don’t host videos my site stores metadata and external embed links (I target hosts that don’t put ads on their streaming servers but they watermark all the content hosted with their website name, they do that on purpose and i don't mind) i've seen websites having more trrafic then the original hosters. Will scale to clustered VPS + caching once traffic grows
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for seo, I focus on clean urls, rich metadata, and backlinks from anime communities. I also post full episode metadata even when I don’t yet have the embed, to build hype and improve search visibility.
 
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Globira said:
What kind of hosting & bandwidth setup do you recommend for high-traffic automated streaming sites?
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for now I’m going with offshore VPS with unlimited bandwidth, using Cloudflare CDN to handle spikes. Later I’ll move to a distributed setup once traffic grows.
 
Heidenreich19394 said:
Interesting project. For the WordPress vs. custom build question, if you're looking for deep control over data handling and complex matching logic, building from scratch often gives you more flexibility in the long run. WP can get messy fast with very custom data structures for something this specific.
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agree M also leaning toward a custom build cuz WP gets messy fast with custom logic especially for episode matching and scraping
 
shijin said:
I’d automate everything except the final check, a tiny human verification prevents huge mismatches.
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okay i'll try keep a small manual review maybe one last check before pushing new episodes live
 
andrew mapple said:
1st Question Answer:

Dont use wordpress instead of wordpress use reactjs or nextjs if you are a programmer.

2nd Question Answer:

make custom backend server that helps you to fetch data using API according to your need.

3rd Question Answer:

I can't understand what do you mean by automating updates and if you want to match subtitle with video voice then it is a bit difficult but not impossible.
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thank u vm for the tips! I’m also leaning toward js (my coding skills are pretty basic) so I mostly rely on ai IDEs like cursor or trae.
exactly my idea is to store data in the backend in a way that lets me map it and use APIs with the fetched metadata. that’s the part I’m still struggling with a bit since I’m not that strong in coding and AI tools have their limits for this kind of tasks
 
Rankmathseo said:
Use WordPress for structure and plugins, but custom scripts for matching episodes. Scrape subtitles’ metadata, not videos, and automate updates with APIs and scheduled scripts.
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Appreciate the tips! but if I’m already running custom scripts, what’s the point of using WP instead of just going with Next.js or something lightweight? Also, when you say “scrape subtitle metadata,” where’s the actual video supposed to come from in that setup?
 
Hello for not anime scripts appi, where can I get movies api scripts? so i dont need to upload the video 1 by 1 because it is also hard and it's super heavy on my space. I need a website where they have database of movies and specially new movies and kdramas so i will just embed it without uploading
 
You’ll earn very little from Vietnamese traffic unless you run aff gambling ads.
That’s why you’ll need a large amount of traffic...I don’t think WordPress is a good choice for that.
 
sounds risky man. automated streaming anime site usually means copyright problems, heavy takedowns, ad networks refuse, domain seizures happen. if you’re gonna do streaming go legal route: get license, or embed legal sources rather than host full episodes. safer path in long run.
 
AdSavvy said:
sounds risky man. automated streaming anime site usually means copyright problems, heavy takedowns, ad networks refuse, domain seizures happen. if you’re gonna do streaming go legal route: get license, or embed legal sources rather than host full episodes. safer path in long run.
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pff thats never gonna happen tf u think he's doin selling pcp on the clean web
 
AdSavvy said:
sounds risky man. automated streaming anime site usually means copyright problems, heavy takedowns, ad networks refuse, domain seizures happen. if you’re gonna do streaming go legal route: get license, or embed legal sources rather than host full episodes. safer path in long run.
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Getting licenses isn’t realistic. Anime rights are fragmented and expensive, that’s why Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc. fight and buy exclusivity. If it were easy, they wouldn’t. I’m not hosting files, just indexing metadata and external embeds, and the setup assumes volatility from the start.
 
Updates :
I managed to reach what I wanted, everything is now continuously automated end-to-end (new entries, episode sync, embeds/subs sync). Site is fast and SEO is performing way better than expected because I added a smart fill system: I can render pages even if I don’t fully have the data yet, then fetch/sync the missing pieces on-demand when a user or Google crawler requests it.
Results after 24h
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Before, I was using GitHub + GitHub Actions + Vercel deploys, but I don’t like it anymore (too many limits / friction).
Question: What’s the best cheapest VPS option that can run a Next.js site and can be paid with crypto?
 
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