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

📸 Demo workflows

Example workflows:

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

Image2Image and Text2Image workflow examples.
Alternative 'Show Text' or 'Show Any' nodes can be used but they will not populate automatically, Run will need to initiated first.
They must also be compatible with Node2 requirements.

Nodes
To search for the nodes type Civit

Workflow examples

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).

🙏 Acknowledgements

Inspired by earlier community work exploring similar workflows and UI ideas.

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ComfyUI CivitAI ImagePlus