4chan Scraper — Boards, Threads & Monitoring
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$1.00 / 1,000 results
4chan Scraper — Boards, Threads & Monitoring
Scrape any 4chan board — catalogs, full threads, post history, keyword watchlists — via the official public JSON API. No login. /pol/, /biz/, /g/, /b/ and all 77 boards. From $1/1,000 results.
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$1.00 / 1,000 results
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William Billings
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4chan Scraper — Boards, Threads & Keyword Monitoring
Extract data from any 4chan board via the official public JSON API — no login, no captcha, no rate-limit games. Full catalogs, complete thread histories, image links, country flags, and multi-board keyword monitoring for OSINT, crypto research, and trend detection.
Why 4chan data?
4chan is where narratives form first — /biz/ memecoins pump before Twitter notices, /pol/ drives news cycles, /g/ and /x/ leak everything. Analysts, journalists, and intelligence researchers need this data, and until now there was no working scraper on Apify.
Modes
| Mode | Output | Use case |
|---|---|---|
catalog | All live threads on a board — subject, replies, images, timestamps | Board surveillance, hot-topic discovery |
thread | Complete post history of a thread — every reply with image/flag metadata | Archive discussions, quote tracing |
boards | All 77 boards with titles and worksafe flags | Directory / discovery |
watch | Multi-board keyword scan — e.g. monitor /biz/+/pol/ for "bitcoin" | Scheduled alerts, narrative tracking |
Input examples
Everything live on /biz/ right now:
Full thread archive:
Cross-board keyword alert (schedule every 15 min):
Output fields
recordType (board/thread/post), board, threadId, postId, subject, text (HTML-stripped), authorName (null for Anonymous, real for namefags/tripfags), date (ISO), replies, images, isOP, sticky, closed, capcode (mod/admin/dev), country (flag on /pol/ etc.), imageUrl, imageName, imageSizeBytes, url
Limits & caveats
- Threads 404 (die) — 4chan prunes aggressively;
threadmode errors cleanly on archived threads - Catalog shows threads,
threadshows posts — combine them: catalog → pick hot threads → thread for full history - Country flags only on /pol/, /int/, /sp/, /biz/ and a few others
- No search API exists on 4chan natively —
watchmode is the keyword-search substitute
Pricing
$1.00 per 1,000 results (pay-per-event). A /biz/ catalog scan (~150 threads) costs ~$0.15.
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Not affiliated with 4chan. Uses the official public JSON API. Post content reflects anonymous users — use responsibly.
