4JINX(1)

2024-05-07

NAME

4jinx - tool to download images of 4chan

4jinx [-av] [-b board] [-j num] [-t thread]

4jinx is a tool to download images of 4chan.

The options are as follows:

-a

Download every thread from the archive of the given board. The given thread number will be ignored and can be left out.

-b board

Set the board from which to download the thread.

-j num

Set the number of downloads to run concurrently. This defaults to the number of CPU cores available.

-t thread

Set the thread number to download.

-v

Print the version information and exit.

To download the thread 32523534 from the board "c", use the following syntax:

4jinx -b c -t 32523534

To download all images of all threads in the archive of the board "wg", use the following syntax:

4jinx -a wg

4jinx exits with a value >0 in case of an error. Otherwise, the exit status is 0.

Created and maintained by Hannes Braun <hannes@hannesbraun.net>. Up-to-date sources can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~hannes/4jinx. Bugs and patches can be submitted by email to ~hannes/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht.