An extremely modular asynchronous archiving tool for various imageboards, textboards, and Boorus.

As of 2.5.0, Chandere is abandoned. It has gone through several rewrites, and does not have a large enough userbase to motivate me to continue maintaining it. The current state of the repository is very unstable and marks an attempt at making a more modular interface for adding website and action support. 2.4.1 is stable and works, if you wish to use Chandere. If you are interested in picking up development and maintenance, see HACKING.md and consider contacting me.

Chandere is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

• 4chan
• 8chan
• danbooru
• dangeru

• Downloading files
• Archiving to CSV

Chandere is packaged in the AUR, so Arch Linux users are encouraged to install Chandere with makepkg.

If you are running a distribution for which Chandere is not yet packaged, or are not running Linux, the suggested means of installation is through Pip.

$ # It is recommended that you use the latest version of pip and setuptools when installing Chandere.
# pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
# pip install --upgrade chandere

If Chandere is installed with Pip or setup.py, manpages will have to be manually moved to your manpath.

$ make doc
# cp docs/*.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1 # The destination path may be different on your system.

chandere /fit/17018018

Download all images from 'https://boards.4chan.org/fit/thread/17018018/' into the current working directory, preserving the original filenames.

chandere -o "{index}.{ext}" /fit/17018018

Perform the same as the above, but instead save every image to a filename containing the index at which it was encountered.

chandere /tech/ -w 8chan

Download all images from 'https://8ch.net/tech/res/589254.html'.

See HACKING.md.

• Handle files of the same name in the download.py action.
• Fix ordering of TARGETS.
• Expose an API such that Chandere can be used as a library.