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A lightweight tool for parsing and downloading 4chan threads.

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# Chandl

A lightweight tool for parsing and downloading 4chan threads.

## Features

  • An API for programmatically analysing 4Chan content.

  • Customise the each file name using a lambda function.

  • Filter out images or videos.

  • Concurrent downloading, with parallelism linked to the number of cores.

## Dependencies

  • Python 2.7.x, 3.4.x or 3.5.x

  • six (bundled)

## Usage

$ python -m chandl -h usage: chandl [-h] [-c] [-t THREADS] [-v] url [url …]

A lightweight tool for parsing and downloading 4chan threads.

positional arguments:

url the URL(s) of the thread(s) whose files to download

optional arguments:
-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-c, --cwd

download to the working directory

-t THREADS, --threads THREADS

the maximum number of download threads to use per core

-v, --verbosity

increase output verbosity

## Roadmap

  • Check compatibility

  • Add tests and CI

  • List on pip and remove bundled dependencies

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