Search rule34.xxx for posts carrying a tag, or several tags at once. Tags are written as one token, so a name said as words is joined by underscores: 'asuka langley sohryu' and 'ranma 1/2' are single tags, and this tool joins them for you. Returns each post's page, its image or video URL, dimensions, score and rating, alongside the number of posts the whole search matches. A row shows the first 12 of a post's tags and says how many it has; call get_post for the whole list with a kind for every tag. Use 'media_type' to ask for still images, animations or video; the site classifies these itself. When a search finds nothing, the answer names the tags rule34.xxx does not hold, or says how many posts the tags match once the restrictions are dropped.

Read one rule34.xxx post, named by its id or by a link to its page. Returns every tag the post carries, each with its kind (character, copyright, artist, general or metadata) and how many posts share it, alongside the image or video, the dimensions, the score, the rating, the uploader, the number of comments, the credited source and the date the site took the post in. Use this after a search, whose rows show only the first few tags of each post.

Find how rule34.xxx spells a tag, and how many posts carry it. The site matches from the start of a name, so 'kimagure' finds 'kimagure_orange_road' while 'orange road' finds nothing. It offers at most ten names. Use this before searching when a name might be spelled differently, and after a search that found nothing because a tag does not exist.