ByteDev.Giphy 2.0.0

ByteDev.Giphy

.NET Standard library to help communicate with the Giphy API.

Currently supports the following API endpoints:

• Search GIFs
• Get random GIF
• Get GIF by ID
• Get set of GIFs by IDs
• Get trending GIFs
• Get translated GIFs

Installation

ByteDev.Giphy has been written as a .NET Standard 2.0 library, so you can consume it from a .NET Core or .NET Framework 4.6.1 (or greater) application.

ByteDev.Giphy is hosted as a package on nuget.org. To install from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio run:

Install-Package ByteDev.Giphy

Further details can be found on the nuget page.

Code

The repo can be cloned from git bash:

git clone https://github.com/ByteDev/ByteDev.Giphy

Usage

Simple example of making a search request against the Giphy API. Any problems when calling the client and a GiphyApiClientException will be thrown.

const string giphyApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

var client = new GiphyApiClient(new HttpClient());

var request = new SearchRequest(giphyApiKey) { Query = "cheeseburgers", Limit = 1 };

var response = await client.SearchAsync(request);

Console.Write(response.Gifs.First().Images.Original.Url);

Further Information

Full documentation on the Giphy API and how to obtain a Giphy API key can be found at: https://developers.giphy.com/docs/