4chan-finder

4chan-finder is a ruby script for searching threads on 4chan from your terminal.

Usage: ./4chan-finder [options] <search term>
    -v, --verbose                    Run verbosely
    -b, --board [BOARD NAME]         Board to search
    -d, --dump-mode                  Run in dump mode (dumps the result links directly for easy piping)
    -l, --limit [NUMBER]             Number of results limit
    -U, --update-cache               Update boards list cache
    -h, --help                       Display this screen

Screenshot

TODO

• Make it work
• Implement dump mode (easy)
• Make it look better
• Make it interactive (Display a small snippet of the OP, the last reply date, and allow the user to choose the thread he wants to access if multiple results are present)

This is now in a working state. Future changes will probably only be bugfixes or feature requests.

Dependencies

Ruby Versions older than 1.9.3 are not supported (releases older than 2011).

To easily install the dependencies, install bundler if you don't have it already ([sudo] gem install bundler) and simply bundle install inside the directory.

If you prefer to manually install the dependencies, here they are:

• The xdg gem is necessary for handling config and cache folders location. To install it, enter [sudo] gem install xdg.
• The colorize gem is necessary for output generation. To install it, enter [sudo] gem install colorize.
• The nokogiri gem is necessary for cleaning 4chan api's output. To install it, enter [sudo] gem install nokogiri.

Contact

• IRC: apt-get on SynIRC, Rizon, and Freenode