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:TITLE:Public Database API

<div class="warning">
 <h2>IN DEVELOPMENT</h2>
 <p>This API is currently in development, pretty much everything is subject to change without notice.</p>
</div>

:INC:index

:SUB:Introduction
<p>
 This document describes the public API of VNDB and is intended to be read by
 programmers. The API allows programs and websites to access (parts of) the VNDB
 database without actually visiting a page on the website.
 <br /><br />
</p>

<b>Design goals</b>
<ul>
 <li>
  Simple in implementation of both client and server. "Simple" here means that
  it shouldn't take much code to write a secure and full implementation and that
  client applications don't require huge dependency trees just to use this API.
 </li>
 <li>Powerful: Not as powerful as raw SQL, but not as rigid as commonly used REST or RPC protocols.</li>
 <li>Fast: minimal bandwidth overhead</li>
 <li>
  High-level: nobody is interested in the internal database structure of VNDB
  (ok, maybe you are, but you wouldn't want to write an application using it: it
  changes quite often)
 </li>
 <li>Stateful</li>
</ul>
<br />

<b>Design overview</b>
<ul>
 <li>TCP-based, all communication between the client and the server is done
  using one TCP connection. This connection stays alive until it is explicitely
  closed by either the client or the server.</li>
 <li>Request/response, client sends a request and server replies with a response.</li>
 <li>Session-based: clients are required to login before issuing commands to
  the server. A session is created by issuing the 'login' command, this session
  stays valid for the lifetime of the TCP connection.</li>
 <li><b>Everything</b> sent between the client and the server is encoded in UTF-8.</li>
</ul>
<br />

<b>Limits</b>
<p>The following limits are enforced by the server, in order to limit the
server resources and prevent abuse of this service.</p>
<ul>
 <li>5 connections per IP. All connections that are opened after reaching this limit will be immediately closed.</li>
 <li>3 connections per user. The login command will reply with a 'sesslimit' error when reaching this limit.</li>
 <li>Each command returns at most 10 results.</li>
 <li>100 commands per 10 minutes per user. Server will reply with a 'throttled' error (type="cmd") when reaching this limit.</li>
 <li>
  1 second of SQL time per minute per user. SQL time is the total time taken to
  run the database queries for each command.  This depends on both the command
  (filters and get flags) and server load, and is thus not very predictable.
  Server will reply with a 'throttled' error with type="sql" upon reaching
  this limit.
 </li>
</ul>

<br />
<b>Test version:</b>
<dl>
 <dt>Host (beta)</dt><dd>beta.vndb.org</dd>
 <dt>Port</dt><dd>19534 ('VN')</dd>
</dl>

<br />
<b>Disclaimer</b>
<p>These notes should be obvious, but I'll point it out anyway.</p>
<ul>
 <li>
  This service is still experimental and is provided for free. No guarantees
  are given about the stability and uptime of this service. It may disappear
  at any time, and access to it can be restricted without prior notice.
 </li>
 <li>
  Changes to this API can be made without prior notice. Backwards compatibility
  is provided when feasable, but non-compatible changes will be made at some
  point.  It is the responsibility of the application developers to keep their
  applications up-to-date.
 </li>
 <li>
  This service does not grant anyone the right to copy or republish the
  information fetched using the API. VNDB does not have a clear copyright
  statement, and in general we're not very strict about other people copying our
  information, but this API is not intended to be used fetching and publishing
  half of our database. When in doubt, ask.
 </li>
 <li>
  Lastly, this API is not complete. If you have any specific features you'd
  like to see, don't hesitate to ask.
 </li>
</ul>


:SUB:Request/response syntax
<p>
 The VNDB API uses the JSON format for data in various places, this document assumes
 you are familiar with it. See <a href="http://json.org/">JSON.org</a> for a quick
 overview and <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627">RFC 4627</a>
 for the glory details.
 <br /><br />
 The words <i>object</i>, <i>array</i>, <i>value</i>, <i>string</i>,
 <i>number</i> and <i>int</i> refer to the JSON data types. In addition the following
 definitions are used in this document:
</p>
<dl>
 <dt><i>request</i> or <i>command</i></dt><dd>
  Message sent from the client to the server.
 </dd><dt><i>response</i></dt><dd>
  Message sent from the server to the client.
 </dd><dt><i>whitespace</i></dt><dd>
  Any sequence of the following characters: space, tab, line feed and carriage
  return.  (hexadecimal: 20, 09, 10, 0D, respectively). This is in line with the
  definition of whitespace in the JSON specification.
 </dd><dt><i>date</i></dt><dd>
  A <i>string</i> signifying a date (in particular: release date). The
  following formats are used: "yyyy" (when day and month are unknown), "yyyy-mm"
  (when day is unknown) "yyyy-mm-dd", and "tba" (To Be Announced). If the year is
  not known and the date is not "tba", the special value <b>null</b> is used.
 </dd>
</dl>
<br />

<b>Message format</b>
<p>
 A message is formatted as a command or response name, followed by any number of
 arguments, followed by the End Of Transmission character (04 in hexadecimal).
 Arguments are separated by one or more whitespace characters, and any sequence
 of whitespace characters is allowed before and after the message.<br />
 The command or response name is an unescaped string containing only lowercase
 alphabetical ASCII characters, and indicates what kind of command or response
 this message contains.<br />
 An argument can either be an unescaped string (not containing whitespace), any
 JSON value, or a filter string. The following two examples demonstrate a
 'login' command, with an object as argument. Both messages are equivalent, as
 the whitespace is ignored. '0x04' is used to indicate the End Of Transmission
 character.
</p>
<pre>
 login {"protocol":1,"username":"ayo"}<b class="standout">0x04</b>
</pre><pre>
 login {
  "protocol" : 1,
  "username" : "ayo"
 }
 <b class="standout">0x04</b>
</pre>
The 0x04 byte will be ommitted in the other examples in this document. It is
however still required.<br />

<br />
<b>Filter string syntax</b>
<p>
 Some commands accept a filter string as argument. This argument is formatted
 similar to boolean expressions in most programming languages. A filter consists
 of one or more <i>expressions</i>, separated by the boolean operators "and" and
 "or" (lowercase). Each filter expression can be surrounded by parentheses to
 indicate precedence, the filter argument itself must be surrounded by parentheses.
 <br />
 An <i>expression</i> consists of a <i>field name</i>, followed by an
 <i>operator</i> and a <i>value</i>. The field name must consist entirely of
 lowercase alphanumeric characters and can also contain an underscore. The
 operator must be one of the following characters: =, !=, &lt;, &lt;=, &gt;,
 &gt;= or ~.  The <i>value</i> can be any valid JSON value. Whitespace
 characters are allowed, but not required, between all expressions, field names,
 operators and values.<br />
 The following two filters are equivalent:
</p>
<pre>
 (title~"osananajimi"or(id=2))
</pre><pre>
 (
   id = 2
   or
   title ~ "osananajimi"
 )
</pre>
<p>More complex things are also possible:</p>
<pre>
 ((platforms = ["win", "ps2"] or languages = "ja") and released > "2009-01-10")
</pre>
<p>See the individual commands for more details.</p>


:SUB:The 'login' command
<pre>
 login {"protocol":1,"client":"test","clientver":0.1,"username":"ayo","password":"hi-mi-tsu!"}
</pre>
<p>
 Every client is required to login before issuing other commands. The login
 command accepts a JSON object as argument. This object must have the following members:
</p>
<dl>
 <dt>protocol</dt><dd>An integer that indicates which protocol version the client implements. Must be 1.</dd>
 <dt>client</dt><dd>
  A string identifying the client application. Between the 3 and 50 characters,
  must contain only alphanumeric ASCII characters, space, underscore and hyphens.
  When writing a client, think of a funny (unique) name and hardcode it into
  your application.
 </dd><dt>clientver</dt><dd>A positive number indicating the software version of the client.</dd>
 <dt>username</dt><dd>String containing the username of the person using the client.</dd>
 <dt>password</dt><dd>String, password of that user in plain text.</dd>
</dl>
<p>
 The server replies with either 'ok' (no arguments), or 'error' (see below).
</p>


:SUB:The 'get' command
<p>
 This command is used to fetch data from the database. It accepts 3 arguments:
 the type of data to fetch (e.g. visual novels or producers), what part of that
 data to fetch (e.g. only the VN titles, or the descriptions and relations as
 well), and lastly a filter expression.
</p>
<pre>
 get <b class="standout">type flags filters options</b>
</pre>
<p>
 <i>type</i> and <i>flags</i> are unescaped strings. The accepted values for <i>type</i> are
 documented below.  <i>flags</i> is a comma-separated list of flags indicating what
 info to fetch. The filters, available flags and their meaning are documented
 separately for each type. The last <i>options</i> argument is optional, and
 influences the behaviour of the returned results. When present, <i>options</i>
 should be a JSON object with the following members (all are optional):
</p>
<dl>
 <dt>page</dt><dd>
  integer, used for pagination. Page 1 (the default) returns the first 10
  results (1-10), page 2 returns the following 10 (11-20), etc.
 </dd><dt>sort</dt><dd>
  string, the field to order the results by. The accepted field names differ
  per type, the default sort field is the ID of the database entry.
 </dd>
 <dt>reverse</dt><dd>boolean, default false. Set to true to reverse the order of the results.</dd>
</dl>
<p>
 The following example will fetch basic information and information about the
 related anime of the visual novel with id = 17:
</p>
<pre>
 get vn basic,anime (id = 17)
</pre>
<p>
 The server will reply with a 'results' message, this message is followed by a
 JSON object describing the results. This object has three members: 'num', which
 is an integer indicating the number of results returned, 'more', which is true
 when there are more results available (i.e. increasing the <i>page</i> option
 described above will give new results) and 'items', which contains the results
 as an array of objects. For example, the server could reply to the previous
 command with the following message:
</p>
<pre>
 results {"num":1, "more":false, "items":[{
   "id": 17, "title": "Ever17 -the out of infinity-", "original": null,
   "released": "2002-08-29", "languages": ["en","ja","ru","zh"],
   "platforms": ["drc","ps2","psp","win"],"anime": []
 }]}
</pre>
<p>
 Note that the actual result from the server can (and likely will) be formatted
 differently and that the order of the members may not be the same. What each
 member means and what possible values they can have differs per type and is
 documented below.
</p>

:SUBSUB:get vn
<p>The following members are returned from a 'get vn' command:</p>
<table style="margin: 5px 2%; width: 95%">
 <thead><tr>
  <td style="width: 80px">Member</td>
  <td style="width: 50px">Flag</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Type</td>
  <td style="width: 40px">null</td>
  <td>Description</td>
 </tr></thead>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>id</td>
  <td>-</td>
  <td>integer</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Visual novel ID</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>title</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Main title</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>original</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Original/official title.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>released</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>date (string)</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Date of the first release.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>languages</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>array of strings</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Can be an empty array when nothing has been released yet.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>platforms</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>array of strings</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Can be an empty array when unknown or nothing has been released yet.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>aliases</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Comma-separated list of aliases.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>length</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>integer</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Length of the game, 1-5</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>description</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Description of the VN. Can include formatting codes as described in <a href="/d9.3">d9.3</a>.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>links</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>object</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   Contains the following members:<br />
   "wikipedia", string, name of the related article on the English Wikipedia.<br />
   "encubed", string, the URL-encoded tag used on <a href="http://novelnews.net/">encubed</a>.<br />
   "renai", string, the name part of the url on <a href="http://renai.us/">renai.us</a>.<br />
   All members can be <b>null</b> when no links are available or known to us.
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>anime</td>
  <td>anime</td>
  <td>array of objects</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   (Possibly empty) list of anime related to the VN, each object has the following members:<br />
   "id", integer, <a href="http://anidb.net/">AniDB</a> ID<br />
   "ann_id", integer, <a href="http://animenewsnetwork.com/">AnimeNewsNetwork</a> ID<br />
   "nfo_id", string, <a href="http://animenfo.com/">AnimeNfo</a> ID<br />
   "title_romaji", string<br />
   "title_kanji", string<br />
   "year", integer, year in which the anime was aired<br />
   "type", string<br />
   All members except the "id" can be <b>null</b>. Note that this data is courtesy of AniDB,
   and may not reflect the latest state of their information due to caching.
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>relations</td>
  <td>relations</td>
  <td>array of objects</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   (Possibly empty) list of related visual novels, each object has the following members:<br />
   "id", integer<br />
   "relation", string, relation to the VN<br />
   "title", string, (romaji) title<br />
   "original", string, original/official title, can be <b>null</b>.
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>
<p>Sorting is possible on the 'id', 'title' and 'released' fields.</p><br />

<p>'get vn' accepts the following filter expressions:</p>
<table style="margin: 5px 2%; width: 95%">
 <thead><tr>
  <td style="width: 80px">Field</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Value</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Operators</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr></thead>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>id</td>
  <td>integer<br />array of integers</td>
  <td>= != &gt; &gt;= &lt; &lt;=<br />= !=</td>
  <td>
   When you need to fetch info about multiple VNs, it is recommended to do so
   in one command using an array of integers as value. e.g. (id = [7,11,17]).
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>title</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>= != ~</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>original</td>
  <td>null<br />string</td>
  <td>= !=<br />= != ~</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>released</td>
  <td>null<br />date (string)</td>
  <td>= !=<br />= != &gt; &gt;= &lt; &lt;=</td>
  <td>
   Note that matching on partial dates (released = "2009") doesn't do what
   you want, use ranges instead, e.g. (released > "2008" and released <= "2009").
  </td>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>platforms</td>
  <td>null<br />string<br />array of strings</td>
  <td><br />= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>languages</td>
  <td>null<br />string<br />array of strings</td>
  <td><br />= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>search</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>~</td>
  <td>
   This is not an actual field, but performs a search on the titles of the visual
   novel and its releases. Note that the algorithm of this search may change and
   that it can use a different algorithm than the search function on the website.
  </td>
</table>

:SUBSUB:get release
<p>Returned members:</p>
<table style="margin: 5px 2%; width: 95%">
 <thead><tr>
  <td style="width: 80px">Member</td>
  <td style="width: 50px">Flag</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Type</td>
  <td style="width: 40px">null</td>
  <td>Description</td>
 </tr></thead>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>id</td>
  <td>-</td>
  <td>integer</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Release ID</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>title</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Release title (romaji)</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>original</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Original/official title of the release.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>released</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>date (string)</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Release date</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>type</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>"complete", "partial" or "trial"</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>patch</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>boolean</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>freeware</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>boolean</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>doujin</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>boolean</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>languages</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>array of strings</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>website</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Official website URL</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>notes</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Random notes, can contain formatting codes as described in <a href="/d9.3">d9.3</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>minage</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>integer</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Age rating, 0 = all ages.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>gtin</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>JAN/UPC/EAN code. This is actually an integer, but formatted as a string to avoid an overflow on 32bit platforms.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>catalog</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Catalog number.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>platforms</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>array of strings</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Empty array when platform is unknown.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>media</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>array of objects</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   Objects have the following two members:<br />
   "medium", string<br />
   "qty", integer, the quantity. <b>null</b> when it is not applicable for the medium.<br />
   An empty array is returned when the media are unknown.
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>vn</td>
  <td>vn</td>
  <td>array of objects</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   Array of visual novels linked to this release. Objects have the following members:
   id, title and original. These are the same as the members of the "get vn" command.
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>producers</td>
  <td>producers</td>
  <td>array of objects</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   (Possibly empty) list of producers involved in this release. Objects have the following members:<br />
   "id", integer<br />
   "developer", boolean,<br />
   "publisher", boolean,<br />
   "name", string, romaji name<br />
   "original", string, official/original name, can be <b>null</b><br />
   "type", string, producer type
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>
<p>Sorting is possible on the 'id', 'title' and 'released' fields.</p><br />

<p>Accepted filters:</p>
<table style="margin: 5px 2%; width: 95%">
 <thead><tr>
  <td style="width: 80px">Field</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Value</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Operators</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr></thead>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>id</td>
  <td>integer<br />array of integers</td>
  <td>= != &gt; &gt;= &lt; &lt;=<br />= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>vn</td>
  <td>integer</td>
  <td>=</td>
  <td>Find releases linked to the given visual novel ID.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>producer</td>
  <td>integer</td>
  <td>=</td>
  <td>Find releases linked to the given producer ID.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>title</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>= != ~</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>original</td>
  <td>null<br />string</td>
  <td>= !=<br />= != ~</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>released</td>
  <td>null<br />date (string)</td>
  <td>= !=<br />= != &gt; &gt;= &lt; &lt;=</td>
  <td>Note about released filter for the vn type also applies here.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>patch</td>
  <td>boolean</td>
  <td>=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>freeware</td>
  <td>boolean</td>
  <td>=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>doujin</td>
  <td>boolean</td>
  <td>=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>type</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>gtin</td>
  <td>int</td>
  <td>= !=</td>
  <td>Value can also be escaped as a string (if you risk an integer overflow otherwise)</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>catalog</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>languages</td>
  <td>string<br />array of strings</td>
  <td>= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
</table>

:SUBSUB:get producer
<p>Returned members:</p>
<table style="margin: 5px 2%; width: 95%">
 <thead><tr>
  <td style="width: 80px">Member</td>
  <td style="width: 50px">Flag</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Type</td>
  <td style="width: 40px">null</td>
  <td>Description</td>
 </tr></thead>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>id</td>
  <td>-</td>
  <td>integer</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Producer ID</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>name</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>(romaji) producer name</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>original</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Original/official name</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>type</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Producer type</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>language</td>
  <td>basic</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>Primary language</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>links</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>object</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   External links, object has the following members:<br />
   "homepage", official homepage,<br />
   "wikipedia", title of the related article on the English wikipedia.<br />
   Both values can be <b>null</b>.
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>aliases</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Comma separated list of alternative names</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>description</td>
  <td>details</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>yes</td>
  <td>Description/notes of the producer, can contain formatting codes as described in <a href="/d9.3">d9.3</a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>relations</td>
  <td>relations</td>
  <td>array of objects</td>
  <td>no</td>
  <td>
   (possibly empty) list of related producers, each object has the following members:<br />
   "id", integer, producer ID,<br />
   "relation", string, relation to the current producer,<br />
   "name", string,<br />
   "original", string, can be <b>null</b>
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>
<p>Sorting is possible on the 'id' and 'name' fields.</p><br />

<p>The following filters are recognised:</p>
<table style="margin: 5px 2%; width: 95%">
 <thead><tr>
  <td style="width: 80px">Field</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Value</td>
  <td style="width: 90px">Operators</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr></thead>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>id</td>
  <td>integer<br />array of integers</td>
  <td>= != &gt; &gt;= &lt; &lt;=<br />= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>name</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>= != ~</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>original</td>
  <td>null<br />string</td>
  <td>= !=<br />= != ~</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>type</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="odd">
  <td>language</td>
  <td>string<br />array of strings</td>
  <td>= !=</td>
  <td>&nbsp;</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>search</td>
  <td>string</td>
  <td>~</td>
  <td>Not an actual field. Performs a search on the title, original and aliases fields.</td>
 </tr>
</table>



:SUB:The 'error' response
<p>
 Every command to the server can receive an 'error' response, this response has one
 argument: a JSON object containing at least a member named "id", which identifies
 the error, and a "msg", which contains a human readable message explaining what
 went wrong. Other members are also possible, depending on the value of "id".
 Example error message:
</p>
<pre>
 error {"id":"parse", "msg":"Invalid command or argument"}
</pre>
<p>
 Note that the value of "msg" is not directly linked to the error identifier:
 the message explains what went wrong in more detail, there are several
 different messages for the same id. The following error identifiers are currently
 defined:
</p>
<dl>
 <dt>parse</dt><dd>Syntax error or unknown command.</dd>
 <dt>missing</dt><dd>A JSON object argument is missing a required member. The name of which is given in the additional "field" member.</dd>
 <dt>badarg</dt><dd>A JSON value is of the wrong type or in the wrong format. The name of the incorrect field is given in a "field" member.</dd>
 <dt>needlogin</dt><dd>Need to be logged in to issue this command.</dd>
 <dt>throttled</td><dd>
  You have used too many server resources within a short time, and need to wait
  a bit before sending the next command.  The type of throttle is given in the
  "type" member, and the "minwait" and "fullwait" members tell you how long you
  need to wait before sending the next command and when you can start bursting
  again (this is the recommended waiting time), respectively.  Both values are in
  seconds, with one decimal after the point.
 </dd>
 <dt>auth</dt><dd>(login) Incorrect username/password combination.</dd>
 <dt>loggedin</dt><dd>(login) Already logged in. Only one successful login command can be issues on one connection.</dd>
 <dt>sesslimit</dt><dd>(login) Too many open sessions for the current user.</dd>
 <dt>gettype</dt><dd>(get) Unknown type argument to the 'get' command.</dd>
 <dt>getinfo</dt><dd>(get) Unknown info flag to the 'get' command. The name of the unrecognised flag is given in an additional "flag" member.</dd>
 <dt>filter</dt><dd>(get) Unknown filter field or invalid combination of field/operator/argument type. Includes three additional members: "field", "op" and "value" of the incorrect expression.</dd>
</dl>