Browse CivitAI images in ComfyUI, preview protected images, and edit prompts before you generate and pass to image 2 image. Compatible with ComfyUI 0.6+

ComfyUI_CivitAI_ImagePlus adds a CivitAI gallery browser to ComfyUI, plus helper nodes for image preview with I2I connector, prompt editing, and quick info. Nodes are populated instantly without a need to run the workflow.

✅ What you can do

Open a full-screen CivitAI gallery, display Most Reactions, Most Comments and Newest from inside ComfyUI
Pick an image and instantly:
- preview it (including protected images if you have an API key)
- load its prompts into an editor
- see a handy info panel
Fetch by URL (paste a CivitAI link)
Use the preview image for img2img

📸 Screenshots & demo workflows

Example workflows:

workflows/Gallery_text_to_image.json
workflows/Gallery_image_to_image.json
workflows/Gallery_Z-image_Turbo.json

Note: Gallery text to image and Gallery image to image workflows use ComfyUI core nodes plus this node pack. Gallery Z-image Turbo workflow uses additional custome nodes. Click the Fetch button to grab a random test image, the test image is available without an API key.

📸 Screenshots

Click any image to open full size.

🧩 Installation

Option A — ComfyUI Manager

Open ComfyUI → Manager
Install ComfyUI_CivitAI_ImagePlus
Restart ComfyUI

Option B — Manual

Go to your ComfyUI custom_nodes folder:
- ComfyUI/custom_nodes/

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/CovertBannana/ComfyUI_CivitAI_ImagePlus.git

Restart ComfyUI

Option C — (Zip)

If your having trouble with Git, click the Code button, download as Zip and extract the folder to your ComfyUI custom_nodes folder.
Restart ComfyUI

🔑 CivitAI API Key (required for protected images)

To preview and fetch protected content, you need a CivitAI API key.

Create the file if it doesn't exist:

custom_nodes/ComfyUI_CivitAI_ImagePlus/api_key.txt

Put your key inside like this:

CIVITAI_API_KEY=YOUR_CIVITAI_API_KEY_HERE

✅ Restart ComfyUI after adding/changing the key.

🧱 Nodes (what each one does)

1) CivitAI Gallery

Open the gallery and select images.

Open Gallery: full-screen browsing
Fetch URL + Fetch: paste a CivitAI URL and load the image

Tip: you can use a post URL (example: https://civitai.com/posts/<id>) or an image URL (example: https://civitai.com/images/<id>)

2) CivitAI Image Preview

Copy CivitAI Page URL button: copies the CivitAI page link for the selected image (the page that shows generation info)
Output: IMAGE (great for img2img)

3) CivitAI Prompt Editor

Lets you edit prompts before generating.

Shows Positive + Negative previews right on the node
Buttons at the bottom:
- Edit Positive / Edit Negative (opens a big editor window)
- Restore (revert to the original prompts from the last selection)
- Clear (wipe prompts)

Output:

Positive (STRING)
Negative (STRING)

4) CivitAI Info Display

A small info preview panel that updates instantly when you select an image.

🔁 Recommended workflow setups

A) txt2img (browse → edit → generate)

Select an image in CivitAI Gallery
Edit prompts in CivitAI Prompt Editor
Connect Prompt Editor outputs to your text/CLIP encode nodes
Generate

B) img2img (preview → use as init image)

Select an image in CivitAI Gallery
Confirm it in CivitAI Image Preview
Use Preview output as your img2img init image
Edit prompts in Prompt Editor

🛠 Troubleshooting

Nothing updates instantly

Restart ComfyUI
Hard refresh your browser (Ctrl+F5)

Protected images won’t preview

Confirm api_key.txt exists and is formatted correctly: CIVITAI_API_KEY=...
Restart ComfyUI

Fetch says “No items returned”

Prefer using a post URL (/posts/<id>)
Some content may still be restricted by your CivitAI browsing/account settings

🔐 Security notes

Your API key stays on your machine in api_key.txt.
The browser does not need your key.

📄 License

MIT License (see LICENSE).

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ComfyUI CivitAI ImagePlus