4chanlog

4chanlog - get all media links from the 4chan catalog

Building on Linux

Prerequisites

• libcurl
• json-c
• gcc, clang, or another C compiler

Build instruction

4chanlog github repo: https://github.com/xfgusta/4chanlog

$ make

Examples

Use head to get the very first 10 links (and width and height as well)

$ ./4chanlog a | head
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611687714218.png (1400x720)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611684376166.png (1328x837)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611710223323.png (852x831)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611688572006.png (1052x1867)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611677138972.jpg (1280x720)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611693991934.jpg (258x385)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611709538333.jpg (587x501)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611710210208.png (713x440)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611701248409.png (388x505)
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611705801081.jpg (800x676)

Use cut to get the links (without width and height)

$ ./4chanlog a | head | cut -d ' ' -f 1
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611684376166.png
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611709084440.jpg
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611709952497.jpg
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611710040273.png
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611688883147.png
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611688572006.png
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611649606360.jpg
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611709438829.jpg
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611701800484.jpg
https://i.4cdn.org/a/1611710073405.jpg

Use cut, xargs and wget to save the files

$ ./4chanlog a | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs wget
...
[output suppressed]