Oh my it actually posted 🎉 Had some issues posting since well lots of people joined ^^"

lndb.info is basically dead at this point and does not work correctly at the moment. Novelupdates might be useful though for getting the japanese stuff.

Never used MAL myself so I can't comment.

As for scraping together the info. Yen Press and J-Novel Club went pretty fine tbh. I have their stuff already. The others ones are bit more problematic. Cross Infinite World has a site but they don't really include all the info I would have liked and scraping their site seems like quite the undertaking since scraping the correct stuff seems difficult.

Seven Seas also is missing quite some info on their site I will have to figure something out for these two.

Ultimately I would love to get the japanese stuff as well but me lacking japanese skills will make that one very difficult. Though I guess Novelupdates might prove useful here.

It sure seems to struggle a bit right now but not only on this instance. I tried subbing to a community over on lemmy.ml with no real success. Also I can't post stuff to a community on lemmy.ml right now 😥

They may (hopefully) get stuff fixed.