What is 4CAT?
4CAT 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 and 8chan. We welcome feedback: mail us at 4cat@oilab.eu.
Updates
- 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.
- Added 8chan as a data source. The boards
pol
,leftypol
,v
andbrit
will be scraped. - Added the
lgbt
board to the 4chan scraper.