chandl 0.1.1

A lightweight tool for parsing and downloading 4chan threads.

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.

Installation

To install chandl, simply run:

$ pip install chandl

Usage

$ 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

• Implement tracking of threads until they are deleted

• File exclusion

• Improve test coverage

• Pylint or flake8 integration