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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

  1. The interface for creating datasets has been updated and now additionally allows you to upload your own CSV files for processing.
  2. 4CAT was inaccesible for a few days because of some TLS issues. Apologies for the inconvenience.
  3. 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.
  4. Reddit is now available as a data source capture and analysis. This data is sourced from the Pushshift API.
  5. Result pages now include a preview of the posts found, so you can get a quick impression of what your query returned.
  6. We've upgraded our server hardware and rebuilt the search indexes; the full corpus of posts is now once again available.
  7. Added 8chan as a data source. The boards pol, leftypol, v and brit will be scraped.
  8. Added the lgbt board to the 4chan scraper.
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