Flareboard Archiver

Flareboard web archiver in C using libcurl

It saves:

• Thread HTML page
• CSS styles from thread
• JS scripts from thread
• Attached images and videos from thread
• Comments in thread (without running JS code)
• Correct message timestamps
• User profile photos

This tool also uses pthread to enable multithreading page downloading.

Build

• GNU/Linux, *BSD and other *nix
• Windows with CMake, Ninja and MinGW

On GNU/Linux you need to install these libraries first:

• libcurl (Debian: libcurl4, Arch: curl)

git clone https://github.com/meequrox/flb-archiver.git

cd flb-archiver

cmake --preset=release

cmake --build --preset=release

The compiled files will be located in the build/release/bin Directory.

Usage

# Print usage hint
./flb-archiver

# Archive threads with ID from 1 to 100
./flb-archiver 1 100

# Archive all threads
# UB is the ID of the last post in the feed
./flb-archiver 1 <UB>

Example

$ time ./flb-archiver 1 3288
      ...
INFO> main(): ID range [1; 3288]
INFO> main(): Using interval 150 ms
      ...
INFO> flb_download_threads(): Workers: 16; FLB threads: 3288; Threads per worker (avg): 205
      ...

real	2m29,082s
user	0m15,327s
sys     0m9,978s