rs621
Rust bindings for the e621.net API.
E621 is a large online archive of furry (anthropomorphic) art. rs621
provides
easy-to-use bindings to its public HTTP API. It uses the reqwest
crate to make
HTTPs requests and exposes an asynchronous API.
Features
- Highly asynchronous
- Convenient stream-based API.
- Post listing and searching, using any of the search options from the website.
- Pool listing and searching.
- Unlimited result count (automatically makes more requests in sequence to go beyond the API limit of 320 posts per request).
- Automatic rate-limit throttling.
- Bulk-oriented API.
Usage
Note: the API is highly asynchronous. If you're not familiar with those concepts, check out Asynchronous Programming in Rust.
First, create a Client
. You'll need to provide the domain URL you'd like to
use, without the final slash (most likely https://e926.net
or its unsafe counterpart). You also have to provide a descriptive User-Agent
for your project. The official API encourages you to include your E621 username
so that you may be contacted if your project causes problems.
let client = new?;
You can now use that client to make various operations, like a basic search,
with Client::post_search
. The function returns a Stream
, which is like
an asynchronous version of Iterator
.
use *;
let mut post_stream = client.post_search.take;
while let Some = post_stream.next.await
If you have a list of post IDs:
let mut post_stream = client.get_posts;
while let Some = post_stream.next.await
Best effort should be made to make as few API requests as possible. rs621
helps by providing bulk-oriented methods that take care of this for you. For
example, if you have 400 post IDs you'd like to fetch, a single call to
Client::get_posts
should be enough and WILL be faster. Do NOT call it
repeatedly in a loop.
Requirements
rs621
uses the rust-openssl
crate. It has some
requirements:
On Linux:
- OpenSSL 1.0.1, 1.0.2, or 1.1.0 with headers (see rust-openssl).
On Windows and macOS:
- Nothing.
See reqwest on crates.io for more details.
License
rs621
is licensed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache
License (Version 2.0), at your choice.
See LICENSE-MIT and LICENSE-APACHE-2.0 files for the full texts.