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Introducing the 4chan API
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Re: Introducing the 4chan API
#62I'm a new graduate student in an American university. As part of my Data Mining/NLP project, I'm wondering if I can do something cool with this fresh API. Any ideas?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably not. Since we don't have user accounts, and already have a bit of a spam problem, I'd be pretty worried about what a real POST API might bring.
I figured as much. Just wishful thinking on my part--it'd be nice to be able to build a client wholly atop the API.
It's not like the html form does anything special. Forms don't have funny markup you have to scrape or produce. It's just a POST.
I guess there's mime/url encoding or whatever, but that's hardly an issue.
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#64Re: Introducing the 4chan API
#65I'm a new graduate student in an American university. As part of my Data Mining/NLP project, I'm wondering if I can do something cool with this fresh API. Any ideas?
create a markov chain 4chan slang generator.
track usages of phrases over time. (thinking of the recent evolution of "rustled my jimmies" derivatives)
See what topics are trending
Fuck maybe I should build some of this...
Re: Introducing the 4chan API
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I figured as much. Just wishful thinking on my part--it'd be nice to be able to build a client wholly atop the API.
It's not like the html form does anything special. Forms don't have funny markup you have to scrape or produce. It's just a POST. I guess there's mime/url encoding or whatever, but that's hardly an issue.
There's a captcha
Re: Introducing the 4chan API
#67Forgive me if this is a noob question, but does 4chan restrict embedding of images.4chan.org images from external urls? I was just playing around with the API and it seems all the images are rendered as the placeholder image that says "4chan.org".
If this is true, I don't know how to utilize this API to make something valuable since all I can do is get the url or text. Somebody please enlighten me. Thanks!
Re: Introducing the 4chan API
#68I'm a new graduate student in an American university. As part of my Data Mining/NLP project, I'm wondering if I can do something cool with this fresh API. Any ideas?
create a markov chain 4chan slang generator. track usages of phrases over time. (thinking of the recent evolution of "rustled my jimmies" derivatives) See what topics are trending Fuck maybe I should build some of this...
do you have some more ideas? these are really good
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is plenty of excellent content (consequently, statistics), you just have to look a little harder. I would hazard a guess that you've taken a quick glance and dismissed the entire community. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Let me know when, say, /tg/ stops casually tossing around f-g and f-ggot while pretending that's not at all homophobic. Garbage dump is entirely appropriate. I have no idea how anyone older than 20 can tolerate 4chan.
While you're talking about the homophobia, let's not ignore the blatant racism on 4chan. The work n-gger is not only casually thrown around on those boards, at this point it's ingrained racism that's influencing a lot of young teens visiting the site and is subtly encouraged by the moderators. It's disgusting and even thought I'm a strong advocate for the freedom of speech, I fear the power of effective propaganda.
Re: Introducing the 4chan API
#70Forgive me if this is a noob question, but does 4chan restrict embedding of images.4chan.org images from external urls? I was just playing around with the API and it seems all the images are rendered as the placeholder image that says "4chan.org". If this is true, I don't know how to utilize this API to make something valuable since all I can do is get the url or text. Somebody please enlighten me. Thanks!
Why would you hotlink to 4chan-pictures? These get deleted with their thread once the thread hits page 10, anyway, which can happen in under 5 minutes (on the more active boards like /b/)