4chan-rss

Returns an RSS feed of a board's threads. Like the official RSS (index.rss), but removes threads with less than -n number of replies to clean up fetching threads with no replies.

Boards

• news – News
• g – Technology
• ck – Cooking & Food
• out – Outdoors
• v – Video Games
• vp – Pokemon
• sp – Sports
• co – Comics & Cartoons
• trv – Travel
• biz – Business

Installation

Make sure you have Go installed. Then clone and build the tool:

git clone https://github.com/fluteds/4chan-rss.git
cd 4chan-rss
go build -o 4chan-rss
./4chan-rss -b g -n 30 -p 1

Usage

The script can be run from a terminal after being built as a binary using go build.

./4chan-rss -b g,vg,ck -n 30 -p 1 -f general

Or you can run it automatically via a GitHub Action and change the boards fetched within the create-feed step.

Arguments

• -b <boards> – Boards to fetch, comma-separated (e.g. g,v,ck)
• -n <number> – Minimum number of replies to include thread (default: 0)
• -p <pages> – Number of pages to parse (default: 1)
• -f <"general"> - Filter out keywords from being fetched

GitHub Action

You can automate the feed generation using GitHub Actions.
Update the boards and arguments in the create-feed job in your workflow.

Note

This will create a rss.xml file in your repo

Planned Features

• Save output to specifed location/file
• Fetch threads by a keyword