No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is api.rule34.xxx legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official API subdomain for rule34.xxx showing developer documentation with no malicious indicators.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page appears to be a legitimate technical documentation subdomain for an existing website's API, showing no typical phishing or scam patterns.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsPage displays technical API documentation for the rule34.xxx domain
A red banner claims the main site is being censored on Google to explain the current subdomain
Layout is utilitarian and consistent with developer-facing documentation pages
No requests for sensitive personal information, credit cards, or login credentials are visible
Links point back to the primary domain rule34.xxx
Intelligence
The page serves as technical API documentation for the rule34.xxx imageboard site. Domain registration dates back to January 2012 with NameCheap and shows no privacy masking. Zero engines flagged the URL and the hosting IP carries a zero abuse score. Evidence from GitHub, PyPI, and the site's own forum confirms active developer usage through multiple API wrapper projects. The page explicitly links back to the main domain and explains the subdomain redirect as a Google indexing workaround. No login forms, payment requests, or data-harvesting patterns appear in the content or visual analysis.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for api.rule34.xxx, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- api.rule34.xxx is the official API endpoint for the rule34.xxx booru/imageboard (adult content, Gelbooru-based, 15M+ posts), documented directly on the page with endpoints like /index.php?page=dapi&s=post&q=index.
- Page includes notice: "rule34.xxx is currently being censored on Google, which is why you may have landed on api.rule34.xxx" with link back to main site.
- Requires user_id + api_key (obtained at rule34.xxx account options) for many requests; ToS prohibits ads/paywalls when using API or CDN, and multiple keys.
- Domain registered January 2012 (14.5 years old); hosted on Cloudflare; contacts staff@booru.org and dmca@booru.org.
- Widely used by open-source projects (gallery-dl, multiple Python/Rust/Go wrappers on PyPI, GitHub, crates.io); no dedicated scam reports found for the API domain.
- Main site has typical adult-site ad risks (Reddit users recommend adblocker); some old sandbox hits on specific posts but main domain generally clean per scanners.
- No business registration details publicly tied to the domain; operated anonymously under booru.org.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for api.rule34.xxx and didn't find scam reports or complaints. Three positive mentions appear in developer discussions on GitHub and PyPI regarding API usage and wrapper libraries.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 18, 2012Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 14 years old today.
- Jul 12, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
api.rule34.xxx has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://api.rule34.xxx/
- 2200https://api.rule34.xxx/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on api.rule34.xxx and not a lookalike like a-pi.rule34.xxx.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the official API documentation page for rule34.xxx. The domain is 14.5 years old with clean scans and no scam reports.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on api.rule34.xxx, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 14.5 years old, registered on January 18, 2012 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- api.rule34.xxx passed our automated checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from api.rule34.xxx), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from api.rule34.xxx is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report api.rule34.xxx as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — api.rule34.xxx is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- api.rule34.xxx is 14.5 years old, registered on January 18, 2012 through NameCheap, Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — api.rule34.xxx presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 48 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- api.rule34.xxx resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 12, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about api.rule34.xxx has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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