From 46c1c6463ab98a1dd446a2b9759e73d18fa9ff5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MajorTanya <39014446+MajorTanya@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 09:16:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add authors/artists to MAL search results (#2833)

(cherry picked from commit 51b3ab3fd19bdf6a7c3bd2085104392a9c412622)

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
---
 .../data/track/myanimelist/MyAnimeListApi.kt   |  9 ++++++++-
 .../data/track/myanimelist/dto/MALManga.kt     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/MyAnimeListApi.kt b/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/MyAnimeListApi.kt
index 5b0957068..ec4ffd79e 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/MyAnimeListApi.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/MyAnimeListApi.kt
@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@ class MyAnimeListApi(
             publishing_status = searchItem.status.replace("_", " ")
             publishing_type = searchItem.mediaType.replace("_", " ")
             start_date = searchItem.startDate ?: ""
+            artists = searchItem.authors
+                .filter { authorNode -> authorNode.role == "Art" }
+                .mapNotNull { authorNode -> authorNode.node.getFullName() }
+            authors = searchItem.authors
+                // count all with "Story" or "Story & Art" as authors, like is done for library entries
+                .filter { authorNode -> authorNode.role.contains("Story") }
+                .mapNotNull { authorNode -> authorNode.node.getFullName() }
         }
     }
 
@@ -280,7 +287,7 @@ class MyAnimeListApi(
         private const val BASE_API_URL = "https://api.myanimelist.net/v2"
 
         private const val SEARCH_FIELDS =
-            "id,title,synopsis,num_chapters,mean,main_picture,status,media_type,start_date"
+            "id,title,synopsis,num_chapters,mean,main_picture,status,media_type,start_date,authors{first_name,last_name}"
 
         private const val LIST_PAGINATION_AMOUNT = 250
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/dto/MALManga.kt b/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/dto/MALManga.kt
index 5232ab28c..3538b8231 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/dto/MALManga.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/data/track/myanimelist/dto/MALManga.kt
@@ -18,8 +18,26 @@ data class MALManga(
     val mediaType: String,
     @SerialName("start_date")
     val startDate: String?,
+    val authors: List<MALAuthorNode>,
 )
 
+@Serializable
+data class MALAuthorNode(
+    val node: MALAuthor,
+    val role: String,
+)
+
+@Serializable
+data class MALAuthor(
+    val id: Int,
+    @SerialName("first_name")
+    val firstName: String,
+    @SerialName("last_name")
+    val lastName: String,
+) {
+    fun getFullName(): String? = "$firstName $lastName".trim().ifBlank { null }
+}
+
 @Serializable
 data class MALMangaCovers(
     val large: String = "",