Yeah so I wrote one and now I gotta tell people about it. See the 4charc section of my wiki userpage. link Sugestions? Complaints? Feedback?
are there limits of images and replies archived? what format will the archived threads be kept? a webpage?
At the moment I'm archiving the stickied thread in /b/ which has 3163 posts and 783 image replies omitted. In theory the only limit should be what the hardware on your computer can keep up with. You don't even have much to wory about there since this computer I'm using is quite old. The archived threads are saved as html with the board links, advertisments, and comment submition section stripped off.
Moot has just announced some major html rewrites to the site. Expect an updated version of 4charc to be released within a day of the new html taking affect.
Cool program! But isn't it the same as saving the thread normally using the browser? Do you have an SVN page for the software, I just want to see how it works/feels etc
There's a few differences. For one thing saving the thread misses any posts made after that point. Then to grab all the images from the thread would take an extra step and a browser plugin. To have the thumbs in the thread link to those full sized images the saved page would require some manual editing. All of this would take time and effort to acomplish manualy and wouldn't yield as good of a result. With the archiver just copy paste in the thread link and go find something else to do. On top of that the script can monitor a huge number of threads simultaneously. There's really no point in setting up an svn since even if the code was left split in seperate files there would only be 4 and the whole script is only 38kb in size. As for geting a feel for the program just install autohotkey then right click on 4charc.ahk and select run. The script runs straight from the file and the interface can be opened without curl. It just won't be able to monitor any threads. The default interface is the quick one. Type full in the text box and press return to see the full interface. A heads up I'm not a fan of flashy interfaces. I'm far more concerned with making stuff work well.
4charc 1.1.0 is now up. If you use this script you need to update. Older versions won't work with the new 4chan html.
Thanks you guys. Remember if there's any features you'ld like to see I'm quite open to sugestions. Now it's gaben time.
Version 1.1.1 of 4charc is out with an important patch. A change to the 4chan 404 page html has rendered prior versions of gps archiver and 4charc unable to detect thread 404s. It's imperative you update gps archiver. If you keep using an old version of gps archiver your hard drive will be packed full with the downloaded images as none of the temp files will be deleted. For now i've patched the script to work with the new html so I can get the but fix out quickly. Expect the next release to have protection written in so this can never happen again.
