Scrappers

Two scrappers:

• The 4chancrape one dls all images from a thread in best res
• The other one simply looks for "img" in any given page and downloads images
• 4chanthreadfinder looks for a keyword in thread names, and dls all images from relevant threads

4chanscrape, imgscrape

Install depedencies:

python3 -m pip install beautifulsoup4 mechanicalsoup wget --user

Use:

./4chanscrape.py -u https://boards.4channel.org/c/thread/3846676/gunsmith-cats-thread -f ./downloads

• -u : URL of the page
• -f : folder where you want to download all pictures

4chanthreadfinder

Install depedencies:

python3 -m pip install beautifulsoup4 mechanicalsoup wget --user

Use (oneshot):

./4chanthreadfinder.py -u https://boards.4chan.org/b/ -f ./downloads/thread -k 'ylyl thread'

• -u : URL of the page
• -f : folder where you want to download all pictures
• -k : keyword or keyphrase to search (better use a single word !)

Use (constant, multi-threaded):

./4chanthreadfinder.py -u https://boards.4chan.org/b/ -f ./downloads/threads -k 'thread' -c -t 3

• -u : URL of the page
• -f : folder where you want to download all pictures
• -k : keyword or keyphrase to search (better use a single word !)
• -c : constant : enables constant downloading
• -t 3 : number of threads. Here, 3 threads keep on running to constantly download