pixiv

Unofficial rust library for the Pixiv API.

Check out the documentation for some examples and usage.

Contributing

Any help is appreciated! The author of this crate is REALLY new to rust (@fairingrey), so feel free to give any helpful advice or open up an issue on what this project might need.

lib.rs:

pixiv

The pixiv crate provides an unofficial library for the Pixiv API.

This crate uses the crates reqwest and serde_json.

Authentication

To authenticate, you need to create a new Pixiv struct and pass in a reqwest::Client, then login with your username and password.

    let client = Client::new();

    let mut pixiv: Pixiv = Pixiv::new(&client);
    pixiv.login("username", "password");

If and when your access token does expire, you should use the refresh_auth() or login() methods.

Alternatively, if you have your access token and/or request token cached somwhere for you to reuse:

    let client = Client::new();

    let mut pixiv: Pixiv = Pixiv::new(&client);

    let my_access_token = String::from("supersecret");
    *pixiv.access_token_mut() = my_access_token;

Accessor methods such as access_token() and refresh_token() are provided for these purposes.

Making a Request

This crate relies on the builder pattern for using and modifying a request. A typical request may look like this:

    let work: Value = pixiv
        .work(66024340)
        .send()
        .expect("Request failed.")
        .json()
        .expect("Failed to parse as json.");

A more complicated response may look like this:

    let following_works: Value = pixiv
       .following_works()
       .image_sizes(&["large"])
       .include_sanity_level(false)
       .send()
       .expect("Request failed.")
       .json()
       .expect("Failed to parse as json.");

Since work is of type serde_json::Value, it's up to you to figure out how you want to parse this response for your program.

You may want to refer here for what a response from Pixiv may look like.

Future Support (Maybe)

• More examples!
• More versatile support for handling and parsing responses (instead of just the raw response)
• More API support (although pixiv doesn't document their public API anywhere to my knowledge...)