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4chan Image Spider using 'wget'

4chan is a great fun tool, where people from across the globe dump their thoughts (could be in a racist, offensive and sexual way as well). It has various boards according to various interests which includes /int/, /s/, the infamous /b/, /a/, /c/ and a lot more. 4chan image boards can also be fun at times. In this blog, I give you a tool for grabbing the images from 4chan boards. It uses a unix utility wget for downloading images automatically. Windows users might get an equivalent version from here . wget.exe -H -A '.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.gif,' -rc -Di.4cdn.org -P 4chan-pics -erobots=off http://boards.4chan.org/b/res/14479452 where, ' -P [name] ' gives it the directory name of the folder in your home folder ' -H ' Goes to outside links ' -nd ' is no-directory which won't put the images in separate folders. ' -r ' is recursive ' -A[.extension] ' tells it what extensions to download ' -D[location] ' is the server ...