Changelog

Nekos API does not follow a strict semantic versioning. Although there are many similarities, we:

• Do not upgrade the major version on every breaking change

Log

v3.6.1

April 4, 2024

• Fixed: /images/report endpoint.

v3.6.0

Feburary 25, 2024

• Added: /images/report endpoint.
• Removed: /images/:id/report endpoint.

v3.5.0

Feburary 25, 2024

• Added: Useful links to API's base endpoint.
• Removed: main_image field from characters.

This update has had some internal changes, like automatic image rating. Automatic image and character tagging have been introduced in a previous version.

v3.4.2

December 29, 2023

• Fixed: 500 error in character endpoints.

v3.4.1

November 17, 2023

• Fixed: Tags filter in /images, /images/random and /images/random/file endpoints
• Fixed: Characters filter in /images, /images/random and /images/random/file endpoints

v3.4.0

November 14, 2023

• Fixed: Weird error schema in sync resource retrieving endpoints
• Added: /images/:id/tags endpoint
• Added: /images/:id/report endpoint
• Added: /images/:id/artist endpoint
• Added: /images/:id/characters endpoint
• Added: /images/tags/:id/images endpoint
• Added: /artists/:id/images endpoint
• Added: /characters/:id/images endpoint

v3.3.0

November 12, 2023

• Added: /images/random/file endpoint to get a random image file.

v3.2.0

November 2, 2023

• Changed: /images/random now returns a list with multiple random images, limited by ?limit

v3.1.0

November 1, 2023

• Added: id_v2 fields in all objects
• Fixed: Typo in /images filtering by tags and characters
• Changed: /images endpoint now allows to filter for one artist at a time
• Changed: /images endpoint filtering by tags and characters now require images to have all tags/characters instead of only one of them

v3.0.0

October 27, 2023

• Added: v3.0.0
• Added: Artist policies
• Added: NekoSauce sauce ID is now in image objects
• Added: is_animated and duration attributes to images
• Added: Character height and weight
• Added: OpenAPI schema
• Changed: Colors are now represented as arrays of 3 integers (R, G, B)
• Changed: IDs are now integers
• Changed: Restructured all schemas
• Changed: Categories were renamed to tags
• Changed: GIFs were merged with images
• Removed: Content-Type header requirement
• Removed: Rate limits
• Removed: Embeds API
• Removed: WebSocket APIs
• Removed: Webhooks APIs
• Removed: All user-related endpoints
• Removed: JSON:API specification
• Removed: Relationships endpoints
• Removed: <APIRequest/> component for API endpoint documentation

v2.7.0

September 1, 2023

• Added: https://cdn.nekosapi.com/images.json file for image metadata downloading
• Added: Redirect from /images.json to https://cdn.nekosapi.com/images.json

v2.6.0

August 5, 2023

• Added: /applications/@me endpoint for authentication with client credentials
• Fixed: /applications endpoint raising a 500 error
• Fixed: Permissions for authorization with client credentials
• Changed: GIF schema
• Removed: 16:9 version of the GIFs ("constant")

v2.5.0

July 25, 2023

• Added: Image objects now return their perceptual hash
• Removed: Dropped support for regex and iregex filter lookup methods in all endpoints

v2.4.4

July 24, 2023

• Fixed: Parse error when sending a JSON body to /v2/users/:id.

v2.4.3

July 24, 2023

• Changed: Usernames now can only be between 4 and 32 characters long, and can only contain lowercase letters, numbers, underscores, and dots.

v2.4.2

July 23, 2023

• Added: Username and nickname filters in the search for a user endpoint.

v2.4.1

July 20, 2023

• Added: Added report query parameter in the report an image endpoint.

v2.4.0

July 18, 2023

• Added: Report an image endpoint.

v2.2.3

July 9, 2023

• Changed: The image verification status updating endpoint's method was changed from POST to PATCH since the resource is updated partially and not completely

v2.2.2

July 9, 2023

• Fixed: 405 error write methods in which the permission checking was done using a method decorator

v2.2.1

July 3, 2023

• Fixed: Non-superuser users not being able to update their relationships
• Fixed: Non-superuser users not being able to update their list's images

v2.2.0

June 23, 2023

• Added: user object in meta object in image resurce objects with liked and saved attributes.
• Added: user object in meta object in list resource objects with isFollowing attribute.
• Added: user object in meta object in artist resource objects with isFollowing attribute.
• Added: user object in meta object in category resource objects with isFollowing attribute.
• Added: user object in meta object in character resource objects with isFollowing attribute.
• Changed: Renamed user to owner in list resource.
• Fixed: Permission checking for write operations in user and lists endpoints.

v2.1.1

June 18, 2023

• Updated: OAuth token fetching now only supports form data. This is not a breaking change that will affect users since these endpoint is still unaccessible.

v2.1.0

June 5, 2023

• Fixed: Sudden 500 errors in /v2/gifs
• Added: Shared resource tokens for images and GIFs

v2.0.0 (stable)

June 4, 2023

• Added: v2
• Added: GIFs
• Added: Reactions
• Added: Image relationship search filters
• Added: Artist relationship search filters
• Added: Category relationship search filters
• Added: Character relationship search filters
• Updated: File endpoints now don't have an "uploads/" prefix
• Removed: Image save endpoint
• Removed: Image like endpoint
• Removed: User follow endpoint
• Removed: Artist follow endpoint
• Removed: Category follow endpoint
• Removed: Character follow endpoint
• Fixed: Permission checking on relationship endpoint write methods

v2.0.0-beta.2

May 2, 2023

• Added: API status endpoint

v2.0.0-beta.1

May 1, 2023

• Added: v2 beta version
• Added: Changelog
• Added: Embeds API
• Added: Image embed (light/dark, vertical/horizontal, palette on/off, nekos logo on/off)
• Added: Upload an image's file endpoint