This is because 4chan has a Cloudflare firewall in front of its REST API, so the only way to getĭata back from searches is to supply the HTTP request information needed to bypass Cloudflare'sĪnti-bot checks. Performing searches against 4chan is much more cumbersome than accessing the rest of 4chan's data. # Do stuff with the post - refer to the model documentation in pychan's README for details print( post. Of HTTP requests possible, pychan directly uses the excerpt instead.įor thread in fourchan. HTTP request for each thread to get its real title, but in the spirit of making the smallest number Technically, pychan could address the title behavior described above by issuing an additional Get_posts() method will automatically correct the title field (if necessary) on the thread thatįetch Posts for a Specific Thread for more details. Passing any of the threads returned by this method to the Or a preview of the original post's text. This text can be either the thread's real title The threads returned by this function will always have a title field containing the text shown inĤchan's interface under the 'Excerpt' column header. Or raise an exception depending on how you have configured your FourChan instance. Such boards will either return an empty list Note: some boards do not have an archive (e.g. # You can also iterate over all the posts in the thread for post in fourchan. # Do stuff with the thread print( thread. # Iterate over all threads in /b/ for thread in fourchan.

4chan feels thread archive