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4chuneThreadChecker

External thread watcher for 4chan. Uses 4chan's API.

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Version history

  • 0.5.1: Fix connection failures due to forced HTTPS
  • 0.5: Add thread image downloader
  • 0.4.1: Fix version label, fix tray icon colors
  • 0.4: Update for new URL API, tray icon changes for new posts
  • 0.3: Mark threads as read, add proxy settings
  • 0.2: Fix the whole 999999 popups thing, center windows, improve tray behavior
  • 0.1: External thread updater

Features

  • External -- get rid of all those open tabs!
  • Can change update rate from 1 to 99999 minutes
  • Change save/load folder (Point to a Dropbox folder to sync your watched threads between systems!)
  • Quickly view thread stats
  • Enable/disable individual threads from being updated
  • Popup notification window with a thread report
  • Windows version minimizes to tray
  • NEW: Thread image auto downloader syncs all images/webms in a thread to a folder. Set a save directory for the thread to enable. Clear the save directory to disable.

Pre-installation

####Windows

N/a

####OS X

You will need to install ActiveState Tk/Tcl and upgrade to Ruby 1.9

http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads/thank-you?dl=http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/8.5.15.0/ActiveTcl8.5.15.1.297588-macosx10.5-i386-x86_64-threaded.dmg

####Linux Need to install Ruby 1.9 and Tk/Tcl, but shouldn't need any other dependencies.

Debian ex:

Uninstall Ruby 1.8

sudo apt-get uninstall ruby1.8 ruby # This will uninstall your current Ruby version!!

Install/upgrade Ruby 1.9

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1 ruby1.9.1-dev # This is actually Ruby 1.9.2
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 /usr/bin/ruby

Install Tk/Tcl bindings

sudo apt-get install libtcltk-ruby

Installation

####Windows Executable is standalone. Just run normally. Built with OCRA.

####OS X & Linux* * Still looking into standalone builds

Assuming you have git installed:

git clone https://github.com/Gunbard/4chuneThreadChecker.git
cd [dir where you cloned]
gem install json htmlentities

Finally, run with:

ruby main.rb

License

MIT

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