NHentaiAPI 1.8.0

dotnet add package NHentaiAPI --version 1.8.0                
NuGet\Install-Package NHentaiAPI -Version 1.8.0                
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="NHentaiAPI" Version="1.8.0" />                
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add NHentaiAPI --version 1.8.0                
#r "nuget: NHentaiAPI, 1.8.0"                
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install NHentaiAPI as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=NHentaiAPI&version=1.8.0

// Install NHentaiAPI as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=NHentaiAPI&version=1.8.0                

NHentaiAPI

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A full nHentai API implementation for .NET

⚠️ If nHentai changes their API format, please create an issue to let me know!

Important Notes

User Agent Requirements

A User-Agent is required to use this API. The client will throw an error if none is provided. You can get your User-Agent by:

  1. Going to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/
  2. Or by opening Developer Tools (F12) in your browser, going to Network tab, and looking at the "User-Agent" header in any request

Example:

var client = new NHentaiClient("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36");

CSRF Token (If Required)

If nHentai implements CSRF protection, you can get the token by:

  1. Opening Developer Tools (F12)
  2. Going to Network tab
  3. Looking for a request header named 'x-csrf-token' or a cookie named 'csrf_token'
  4. Pass it to the client using the cookies dictionary

Important: The CSRF token must be obtained from the same IP address and User-Agent that will be used with the API. Using a token from a different IP or User-Agent will result in authentication failures.

var cookies = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
    {"csrf_token", "your-token-here"}
};
var client = new NHentaiClient("your-user-agent", cookies);

Features

Search Capabilities:

  1. Browse homepage content
  2. Search by keywords
  3. Search by tags with optional popularity sorting
  4. Filter tags using - prefix (exclusion)

Book Operations:

  1. Fetch book details
  2. Get related books

Image Operations:

  1. Page images (preview, thumbnail, and original quality)
  2. Cover images (preview and thumbnail)

Usage Examples

Search Books:

// Initialize client with User-Agent
var client = new NHentaiClient("your-user-agent-string");

// Search with filters
var result = await client.GetSearchPageListAsync("school swimsuit full color -loli", 2);

// Browse homepage
var homeResults = await client.GetHomePageListAsync(1);

Get Book Details:

var client = new NHentaiClient("your-user-agent-string");

// Get book by ID
var book = await client.GetBookAsync(123);

// Get related books
var related = await client.GetBookRecommendAsync(123);

Get Images:

var book = await client.GetBookAsync(123);

// Get full page image
byte[] picture = await client.GetPictureAsync(book, 1);

// Get cover image
byte[] cover = await client.GetBigCoverPictureAsync(book);

// Get thumbnails
byte[] thumbnail = await client.GetThumbPictureAsync(book, 1);
byte[] coverThumb = await client.GetBookThumbPictureAsync(book);

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET net8.0 is compatible.  net8.0-android was computed.  net8.0-browser was computed.  net8.0-ios was computed.  net8.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net8.0-macos was computed.  net8.0-tvos was computed.  net8.0-windows was computed. 
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Version Downloads Last updated
1.8.0 84 11/15/2024
1.7.0 758 7/19/2023
1.6.0 186 7/19/2023
1.5.0 1,668 5/7/2022
1.4.0 609 9/8/2020
1.3.0 508 6/9/2020
1.2.0 721 6/23/2019
1.1.0 650 4/30/2019
1.0.0 727 12/8/2018

[1.8.0]
           - Switched to using System.Text.Json instead of Newtonsoft.
           - Added proper JSON type handling via converters.
           - Updated to .NET 8.0
           - Added proper async handling
           - Updated thumbnail and image urls to work with nhentais' load balancing urls.