new_contents: def get_user_info(username):
  
  	""" Retrieves information via MyAnimeList's API about a user's viewed anime and the
  	corresponding ratings. It only takes into account non-zero ratings.
  
  	Parameters:
  	-----------
  	username : string
  		Username of the MyAnimeList user whose data to pull.
  
  	Returns:
  	--------
  	seen_titles, seen_ratings : (List of strings, List of ints) 
  		seen_id: a list with anime_id which the user has seen
  		seen_ratings: a list with the ratings for each corresponding title.
  	"""
  
  	#First, get XML data based on username
  	import requests
  	query = 'https://myanimelist.net/malappinfo.php?u=%s&status=all&type=anime' % username
  	r = requests.get(query)
  	if r.status_code != requests.codes.ok:
  		print ("Error processing request. Try again")
  		import sys; sys.exit()
  
  	#Now, parse XML data
  	from lxml import etree
  	doc = etree.fromstring(r.content)
  	ids = doc.xpath('.//series_animedb_id/text()')
  	ratings = doc.xpath('.//my_score/text()')
  
  	#Now take the data and construct a rating for them.
  	from itertools import compress
  	mask = [rating != '0' for rating in ratings]
  	seen_id = list(map(int, compress(ids, mask)))
  	seen_ratings = list(map(int, compress(ratings, mask)))
  
  	return seen_id, seen_ratings
  
subject: Use MAL API to get watched show information.