borzois / 4chan-dl

4chan image scraper

4chan-dl

Dependencies

• beautifulsoup4
• requests

pip install beautifulsoup4 requests

Usage

python3 ./4chan-dl.py [-h] [-f FORMAT] [-n NAME] [-q | --quiet | --no-quiet] [-w SECONDS]
                   [--set-default-format | --no-set-default-format]
                   url

Format

The -f parameter uses basic string substitution with the % special character

The following variables are supported:

%filename  - the image's filename (as uploaded by the poster) 
%id        - the id of the post
%count     - incremented on each image in the thread
%name      - user defined variable, set using -n (useful when quickly downloading threads)
%opid      - the id of the thread
%opsubject - the name of the thread (empty char if none)

Formatting examples

Creating a default format

4chan-dl.py -f "~/Downloads/4chan/%name_%opid/%name_%count" -n "test" --set-default-format

Once the default format is set you can simply use

4chan-dl.py -n "newthread"

on subsequent executions, which will create the following file structure:

4chan/
|-newthread_66666666/
	|-newthread_1.png
	|-...

Other examples

4chan-dl.py -f "~/Pictures/%filename(%id)" 
4chan-dl.py -f "post_%id"