The Visual Novel Database

What The Visual Novel Database is

The Visual Novel Database (VNDB) is a free resource for information about visual novels and eroge, available on the web and through an API. Its community wiki lets contributors add database information, including general details and practical coverage of releases, localisations, and producers. Registered users can vote on visual novels and keep personal lists of games they want to play or have completed. VNDB also aims to make visual novels more widely known across geographic and cultural boundaries. Its Kana HTTPS API can query the database and manage user lists. Non-commercial API use is free, with a limit of 200 requests per five minutes and one second of execution time per minute; requests taking longer than three seconds are aborted. API access is best-effort, without guarantees about stability or applicability. It does not expose every site function: forums, database editing, and account creation are excluded. Users can get tokens from the Applications tab in My Profile, and a sandbox endpoint is available for development and testing. The first version launched in September 2007.