$username = "user";
    $password = "pass";

    $url = "http://myanimelist.net/anime/".$mal_id;

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml'));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    $return = curl_exec($ch);
	echo $return;
    $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
    flush();
    curl_close($ch);