Hate it or love it. The 4Chan message board is without doubt one of the most controversial sites on the Internet. Not only because of the contents posted on the site, but also the infamous site raids planned and executed there.
The 30-or-so boards cater to a specific audience, and is largely concentrating on Japanese culture, adult contents, creative categories and interests. The 558 million posts speak for themselves.
Many threads offer a wealth of images that are posted by 4Chan users, and while it is perfectly possible to download them one-by-one in the web browser, it usually makes more sense to automate the process as much as possible.
The free software 4Chan Thread downloader is an application for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It can be used to add threads from 4Chan, which are then automatically downloaded to the local computer system.
New download jobs can be started from the Add 4Chan thread button in the application interface. The program automatically fills out the 4Chan url with the clipboard contents to simplify the process. Downloads begin automatically once the url has been added and a download directory selected.
Download jobs are displayed in a queue on the left side, while preview images of the downloaded images are shown on the right.
4chan thread downloader
One interesting aspect of the program is that it will continue to check the threads for new images after the initial download, for as long as the threads remain in the download queue, and the program is running.
That’s a good option to never miss a single picture posted to favorite threads.
The 4Chan Thread Downloader is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows. It requires not installation and can be run from the directory it was saved to. The portable program can be downloaded from the developer website.
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Can you select destination folder?
Does it save the images or does it save the entire topic posts +.html and all as chan ThreadWatch used to before they dropped the .html from the code in the urls.
You can select download folders for each thread individually. The add-on only saves the images, no post contents or html.
http://illmob.org/files/%5Bb%5Drowser.zip
Downloads images from /b/ but saves in memory and never touches your disk, so you dont have child pr0n hanging out in your system
i will take a look but:
http://sites.google.com/site/chanthreadwatch/
i believe may still have better options.
Neither hate nor love: lack of interest
The website’s philosophy is the exact opposite of what I conceive the Web and the Internet to be, that is broad-minded.
And for those of us who don’t use Windows but do use firefox, there’s
DownthemAll
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201/
and for Opera, there’s:
Panels / View Links
Right Click (Save Linked Content)
@Mike
DownloadThemAll is a great plugin for firefox, however does it monitor a topic and continue to download new images as the thread develops?, I don’t think it has that type of functionality.
in.cog.nito you’re right, it doesn’t. I don’t know of a comparable non-windows app that
does.
For what DownloadThemAll does do, as an alternative, it’s workable, even if it doesn’t
download new images. There is the ability to simply run it twice on the same thread,
where it finds identical images you’ll be asked for further options, one of which is to
skip existing files.
Opera for that matter doesn’t have identical functionality. There’s a choice between
doing it ALL the hard way or taking advantage of tools that will at least meet you somewhere
at or near the middle.
These are non-windows alternatives. Ideally, it’d be nice to have a non-windows (linux / mac)
version of(or knockoff of) the 4Chan Thread Downloader.
Anyone?
For programmers there’s:
wget 4chan (google it)
Making an article on it is stupid
Stop bringing unwanted attention to a site that clearly doesn’t want it
No, your comments are stupid, it doesn’t link the website, it talks about things that help users use the site.
it’s too bad this program only downloads the pictures rather than the whole thread.
Now how should I do to make it download all new content as the thread develops? I have checked the rescan box, and also I have put the timer on 30 secs until rescan. I have been staring at it for five minutes without it rescanning the new pics in the thread.
I tried all 4chan downloaders on sourceforge and none works, download them all Firefox extension rocks, I already know it but didn’t have it, it beats anything !!!
DownThemAll! , the correct name