What is {{ __tool_name }}?
{{ __tool_name }} is a software suite for capture and analysis of thread-based platforms, created and run by OILab at the University of Amsterdam as part of the ERC-funded ODYCCEUS project.
It is currently under development. At this time, you can use it to query select boards of 4chan, Reddit and 8chan. We welcome feedback: mail us at 4cat@oilab.eu.
Updates
- The interface for creating datasets has been updated and now additionally allows you to upload your own CSV files for processing.
- 4CAT was inaccesible for a few days because of some TLS issues. Apologies for the inconvenience.
- We are aware of some issues with our 8chan search where queries return no results when they ostensibly should. We hope to have a fix for this out soon &emdash; our apologies for the inconvenience.
- Reddit is now available as a data source capture and analysis. This data is sourced from the Pushshift API.
- Result pages now include a preview of the posts found, so you can get a quick impression of what your query returned.
- We've upgraded our server hardware and rebuilt the search indexes; the full corpus of posts is now once again available.
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Added 8chan as a data source. The boards
pol
,leftypol
,v
andbrit
will be scraped. -
Added the
lgbt
board to the 4chan scraper.