Search Gelbooru with eleven other sites at once
Gelbooru is the largest anime and manga imageboard of this family, and the reference implementation everything else on this list either copies or reacts to.
Its API needs an API key and user ID for any listing request — the one site here that will not answer anonymously. Its image hosts also check the Referer header, so All34 serves Gelbooru media through its own proxy while every other site loads directly from source.
What you need to know
- Account
- Required — the API returns nothing without credentials
- API dialect
- Gelbooru 0.2 — page/pid query parameters, zero-based paging
- Media delivery
- Proxied, because the image hosts check the Referer header and refuse direct requests
- Where to get a key
- Account → Options → API Access Credentials
How All34 searches it
- Combine it with other sites. Add any of the other eleven and one query hits them all, results interleaved or grouped site by site.
- Different tags per site. Gelbooru tags do not always match another board’s, so each site can carry its own query in the same search.
- Duplicates merged. A file that also exists elsewhere appears once, marked with where else it is — and which copy is largest.
- Your own key, your own browser. Credentials are stored locally and sent per request; they are never part of a URL.