4chan General

What is this?

The repo contains a self-updating bot running on a 6 hourly CRON job to build board general to it's correct thread location.

Example payload

{
  "g": {
    "wdg": "https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/91798719"
  }
}

The access patterns will always remain as board.general, currently the only boards being scraped are

• fit
• g
• biz

Which can be modified in main.go file

How do I use?

As a source of truth

As a bash script

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bingsoo420/4ch-general/master/output/mappings.json | jq .g.wdg

As a simple JavaScript fetch request

fetch(
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bingsoo420/4ch-general/master/output/mappings.json"
)
  .then((r) => r.json())
  .then((r) => {
    if (r.g?.wdg) {
      window.location.href = r.g.wdg;
    }
  });

The source of truth will refresh every 6 hours. Files may be updated to be granular later as output/g.json or output/fit.json if the 6 hours interval was found to be too little for certain boards.

As a program

git clone https://github.com/bingsoo420/4ch-general
cd 4ch-general
go run ./

See the output JSON file in output/mappings.json

As a fork

Set up a personal access token in GitHub by visiting

Profile / Settings / Developer settings / Personal access tokens / Fine-grained tokens / generate new token

Set the token's permission to have read/write to Contents

Copy the output and put that into your forked repo settings

Repo / Settings / Secrets and variables / Actions / New repository secret

Add your access token with the name PAT and the value is your copied token.

Add your email with the name EMAIL and the value is your GitHub account email.

Set workflow permission to have read/write permissions

Repo / Settings / Actions / General / Workflow Permissions / Read and Write Permissions