4chan
4chan | |
Content is not officially archived, but some sites take up the effort. However, those very sites are often themselves in danger of collapse. | |
URL | 4chan.org |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Special case |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
4chan is said to be one of the most significant and "interesting" websites in existence. It has a unique anonymous imageboard posting system, and has a disproportionate influence on English-language internet culture.
The website eventually deletes threads after they reach a bump limit. However, numerous archive sites and wikis have taken up the task of saving threads and images. Numerous others have fallen. We need to keep watch on these fragile, community supported archives, since they can easily collapse without warning.
Scripts
Some scripts you can use to archive 4chan threads yourself.
- BASC Archiver - Python-based 4chan Thread Archiver for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux. Archives everything: Images, Thumbnails, Thread HTML, JSON, etc.
- FoolFuuka - Make your own 4chan board archiver website. Fuuka will grab every single thread from 4chan and save it for later public access.
Current Projects
Update: As of 04-08-2014, Moot is retiring the Filesharing search board (/rs/) and the Discussion boards (dis.4chan.org). The Discussion boards are being hidden from the main site, but kept in a read-only state; this could be a good Warrior/Wget side project.
- dis.4chan.org - 4chan's 2ch-style text boards. All posts from the beginning of the forum's existence are archived, unlike most of 4chan. Therefore, it gives a rare historic snapshot of 4chan's past.
- New posts can no longer be made, but the existing threads are still available. It is probably prudent to start slurping them down with wget; 4chan generally isn't archived on the Internet Archive.
- /rs/ - 4chan's filesharing link search board. All filesharing links ever posted to any 4chan board have been recorded here.
- Not sure if it is still available... Seems to be down with no archives ever made. Could have a few snapshots on the Internet Archive.
Fuuka-based Archivers
- Fun Fact: Asagi is the eldest of the Ayase sisters. Fuuka is the middle sister. The Ayase family lives next door to Yotsuba. Get it? - eksopl
Fuuka is a 4chan board dumper that allows servers to archive entire boards on 4chan. It was invented by Anonymous of Russia (aka Andrey Osenenko) and improved by eksopl (Github). Asagi is a re-implementation of the Fuuka dumper (in Java) with some significant improvements. Created by eksopl.
FoolFuuka is a significantly improved fork of Fuuka & Asagi, (still being) developed by the FoolCode Team: with a better theme, better design, performance optimization, post-thread comments and even a fully functional imageboard, It is used by Archive.moe, and various others.
It would be a good idea to persuade these archivers to upload database dumps to the Internet Archive, just in the very likely case that some disaster befalls them.
The 4chan-X extension maintains an updated list of all Fuuka Archivers, as well as their start and end dates. Very useful.
Boards not currently archived via Fuuka
- /sp/ - Sports (due to a troublesome CP spammer during the April Uprising)
- Archive.moe abandoned the archival effort, but uploaded it's contents to the Internet Archive for someone else to continue.
- Someone needs to take over soon. We're already missing the Superb Owl threads.
- /j/ - Janitor & Moderator Discussion (staff board; obviously not archivable)
- Some parts of the board have been archived thanks to various leaks throughout the years, a collection of all known files from /j/ can be downloaded here.
Archive.moe
Archive.moe | |
URL | archive.moe |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Archive.moe is a union of archivists that inherited the boards of Archive.Foolz.us.
For now, it seems like Archive.moe will attempt to hold all full-size images without deletion.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree | Thumbnails | Oldest Full Image |
---|---|---|---|---|
/a/ - Animu & Mango | 2008-02-03 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net <- green-oval.net | Yes, Restored | ??? |
/biz/ - Business and Finance | 2014-02-13 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Yes | Yes, All |
/c/ - Cute Animu | 2012-04-02 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org | Yes | ??? |
/co/ - Comics and Cartoons | 2012-05-21 | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Yes | ??? |
/diy/ - Do It Yourself | 2011-10-23 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net | Yes | ??? |
/g/ - Technology | 2010-02-07 | rbt.asia & archive.moe <- installgentoo.net | rbt.asia preferred | No |
/gd/ - Graphic Design | 2013-03-18 | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Lost before 2014 | ??? |
/h/ Hentai | 2012-01-25 | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Lost before 2014 | ??? |
/i/ - Oekaki | 2011-11-05 | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Yes | Yes, All |
/int/ - International | 2013-01-08 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org | Some Restored | ??? |
/jp/ - Otaku Culture | 2008-02-20 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net | Yes | ??? |
/k/ - Weapons | 2012-07-13 | archive.moe <- heinessen.com | Yes | ??? |
/m/ - Mecha | 2009-03-27 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net | Some Restored | ??? |
/mlp/ - Pony | 2012-03-27 (from birth) | archive.moe <- heinessen.com | Yes | Internet Archive |
/out/ - Outdoors | 2013-03-18 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org | Yes | ??? |
/po/ - Papercraft and Origami | 2010-10-20 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org | Yes | Yes, All |
/q/ - 4chan Feedback | 2012-08-08 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us (board closed 2013-09-18) | Some Restored | ??? |
/qa/ - Questions and Answers | 2015-01-23 (from birth) | archive.moe | Partial? | Partial |
/r9k/ - ROBOT 9001 | 2012-06-02 | archive.moe <- heinessen.com | Yes | ??? |
/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says | 2013-10-01 | archive.moe <- (???) | Yes | Yes, All |
/sci/ - Science | 2010-05-12 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman | Yes | ??? |
/tg/ - Traditional Games | 2010-02-23 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net | Yes | ??? |
/tv/ - Television and Film | 2010-02-01 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman | Some Restored | ??? |
/u/ - Yuri | 2011-06-04 | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Lost before 2014 | ??? |
/v/ - Video Games | 2012-02-12 | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Lost before 2014 | Partial |
/vg/ - Video Games Generals | 2012-02-16 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Lost before 2014 | |
/vp/ - Pokemon | 2013-03-13 | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Yes | ??? |
/vr/ - Retro Games | 2013-03-18 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Yes | ??? |
/wsg/ - Worksafe GIF | 2012-06-04 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us | Yes | ??? |
- Foolz.us - Final Snapshot before Shutdown
- Primary Source: FoolCode Developer Adm|nymous
- Wayback Machine - The Dark Cave
- Bibliotheca Anonoma - Board Addition Dates
- Source: Easymodo Info Page
rbt.asia/rebeccablacktech.com
rebeccablacktech | |
URL | rbt.asia |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Online Saves Images?: Yes
A Fuuka archiver for /con/, /cgl/, /g/, /mu/, /qa/, and /w/. /soc/ moved to fgts.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Full Images | Pedigree |
---|---|---|---|
/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL | 2012-05-06 | Yes | rbt.asia <- ??? |
/con/ - Conventions | 2013-09-29 (from birth) | Yes | rbt.asia |
/g/ - Technology | 2011-11-11 | Yes | rbt.asia <- installgentoo.net |
/mu/ - Music | 2013-05-30 | Yes, Temp. | rbt.asia |
/qa/ Questions & Answers | 2015-01-23 (from birth) | Yes, for now | rbt.asia |
/w/ - Anime/Wallpapers | 2012-01-11 | Yes | rbt.asia <- ??? |
warosu.org
warosu.org | |
URL | warosu.org |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Online Saves Images?: Partially (all boards except /g/)
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Full Images |
---|---|---|
/3/ - 3DCG | 2014-01-12 | Yes |
/biz/ - Business & Finance | 2014-03-15 | Yes |
/cgl/ - Coslay & EGL | 2014-03-15 | Yes |
/ck/ - Cooking | 2012-12-01 | Yes |
/fa/ - Fashion | 2013-03-13 | Yes |
/g/ - Technology | 2013-03-13 | No |
/ic/ - Artwork/Critique | 2013-10-28 | Yes |
/jp/ - Otaku Culture | 2013-10-05 | Yes |
/lit/ Literature | 2011-06-26 | Yes |
/sci/ - | 2012-07-02 | Yes |
/tg/ - Traditional Games | 2013-04-01 | Yes |
/vr/ - Retro Games | 2013-04-01 | Yes |
archive.4plebs.org
archive.4plebs.org | |
URL | archive.4plebs.org |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Online Saves Images?: Yes
Board | Date of Oldest Thread |
---|---|
/adv/ - Advice | 2014-01-12 |
/f/ - Flash | 2014-03-15 |
/hr/ - High Resolution | 2012-12-01 (around birth) |
/o/ - Auto | 2013-03-13 |
/pol/ - Politically Incorrect | 2013-10-28 |
/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says | 2013-10-05 |
/tg/ Traditional Games | 2011-06-26 |
/trv/ - Travel | 2012-07-02 |
/x/ - Paranormal | 2013-04-01 |
fgts.jp
fgts.jp | |
URL | fgts.jp |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Online Saves Images?: Yes
A Fuuka archiver for /asp/, /b/, /cm/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /n/, /p/, /qa/, /r/, /s/, /soc/, and /y/. All except /asp/, /cm/, /n/, /p/ and /qa/ are NSFW.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread |
---|---|
/asp/ - Alternative Sports | 2013-12-02 |
/b/ - Random[fgts-b 1] | 2015-01-04 |
/cm/ - Cute/Male | 2013-01-29 |
/h/ - Hentai | 2013-02-20 |
/hc/ - Hardcore | 2013-03-05 |
/hm/ - Handsome Men | 2013-08-12 |
/n/ - Transportation | 2013-05-23 |
/p/ - Photography | 2014-03-29 |
/qa/ - Question & Answer | 2015-01-23 (from birth) |
/r/ - Request | 2014-02-02 |
/soc/ - Cams & Meetups | 2013-12-26 |
/y/ - Yaoi | 2012-12-16 |
archive.nyafuu.org
archive.nyafuu.org | |
URL | archive.nyafuu.org |
Status | Returning to Service |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Returning to Service Saves Images?: Maybe
Start Date: ??? Temporary Shutdown Date: 2014-08-27 Restoration Date: In progress (as of 2015-02-11)
A Fuuka archiver for /c/, /e/, /w/, and /wg/, provides full image archiving, created by VoH. /e/ is NSFW.
It temporarily shut down on August 27, 2014, and all the boards were inherited safely by archive.loveisover.me.
Now that Nyafuu is coming back (as of 2015-02-11), loveisover.me is in the process of returning the archives back to Nyafuu.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/c/ - Anime/Cute | 2011-06-08 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
/e/ - Ecchi | 2012-10-13 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
/w/ - Anime/Wallpapers | 2012-01-11 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
/wg/ - Wallpapers/General | 2013-04-10 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
archive.loveisover.me
archive.loveisover.me | |
URL | archive.loveisover.me |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Online Saves Images?: Yes
A pure NSFW Fuuka archiver for /d/, /i/, /lgbt/, and /u/, created by Blade. It also inherited the archive.mawa.re /t/ archive.
Has assumed responsibility of boards formerly curated by archive.nyafuu.org /c/, /e/, /w/, /wg/, as of November 2014, but full image support (except for /e/) was temporarily disabled.
Now that Nyafuu is coming back (as of 2015-02-11), loveisover.me is in the process of returning the archives back to Nyafuu, and will hide the boards once finished.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/c/ - Anime/Cute | 2011-06-08 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
/d/ - Hentai/Alternative | 2013-03-04 | loveisover.me <- (???) |
/e/ - Ecchi | 2012-10-13 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
/i/ - Oekaki | 2011-11-05 | loveisover.me <- (???) |
/lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender | 2014-04-12 | loveisover.me |
/t/ - Torrents | 2012-06-08 | loveisover.me <- mawa.re |
/u/ Yuri | 2013-06-23 | loveisover.me |
/w/ - Anime/Wallpapers | 2012-01-11 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
/wg/ - Wallpapers/General | 2013-04-10 | nyafuu.org (in progress) ~ loveisover.me <- nyafuu.org |
imcute.yt
imcute.yt | |
URL | imcute.yt |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Online Saves Images?:Yes
A Fuuka archiver that started with /gif/, /int/, /jp/, /out/, presumably around 2014-08-09.
It's resumed archiving all boards originally covered by Heinessen (/an/, /fit/, /gif/, /mlp/, /r9k/, /sp/, /toy/) except /k/ and /x/. Unfortunately, only /fit/ and /mlp/ contain Heinessen's full archival history prior to 2014, since the rest were not backed up. (though Heinessen's /r9k/ history was inherited by Archive.moe).
It used to archive /sp/, but stopped in the aftermath of the /sp/ April Uprising.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/an/ - Animals & Nature | 2014-10-15 | imcute.yt |
/fit/ - Fitness | 2010-10-12 | imcute.yt <- heinessen.com |
/gif/ - Adult GIF | 2014-08-09 | imcute.yt |
/int/ - International | 2014-10-18 | imcute.yt |
/mlp/ - Ponies | 2012-08-08 | imcute.yt <- heinessen.com |
/out/ - Outdoor | 2014-07-12 (from birth) | imcute.yt |
/qa/ Q & A | 2015-01-23 (from birth) | imcute.yt |
/r9k/ - ROBOT9000 | 2014-11-10 | imcute.yt |
/toy/ - Toys | 2014-07-12 | imcute.yt |
List of Fuuka Archivers by board
Board | Moe | 4plebs Archive | Love is Over | Rebecca Black Tech | warosu | fgts | imcute | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/3/ - 3DCG | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 1 |
/a/ - Anime & Manga | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/adv/ - Advice | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/an/ - Animals & Nature | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 1 |
/asp/ - Alternative Sports | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/b/ - Random | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/biz/ - Business & Finance | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 1 |
/c/ - Anime/Cute | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | 2 |
/ck/ - Food & Cooking | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 1 |
/cm/ - Cute/Male | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/co/ - Comics & Cartoons | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/con/ - Conventions | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | 1 |
/d/ - Hentai/Alternative | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/diy/ - Do-It-Yourself | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 2 |
/e/ - Ecchi | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/f/ - Flash | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/fa/ - Fashion | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 1 |
/fit/ - Fitness | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 1 |
/g/ - Technology | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | 2 |
/gd/ - Graphic Design | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/gif/ - Adult GIF | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 1 |
/h/ - Hentai | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 2 |
/hc/ - Hardcore | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/hm/ - Handsome Men | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/hr/ - High Resolution | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/i/ - Oekaki | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/ic/ - Artwork/Critique | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 1 |
/int/ - International | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 2 |
/jp/ - Otaku Culture | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 2 |
/k/ - Weapons | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/lgbt/ - LGBT | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/lit/ - Literature | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 1 |
/m/ - Mecha | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/mlp/ - Pony | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 2 |
/mu/ - Music | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | 1 |
/n/ - Transportation | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/o/ - Auto | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/out/ - Outdoors | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 2 |
/p/ - Photography | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/po/ - Papercraft & Origami | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/pol/ - Politically Incorrect | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/q/ - 4chan Feedback | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/qa/ - Question & Answer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 4 |
/r/ - Request | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/r9k/ - ROBOT9001 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 2 |
/s/ - Sexy Beautiful Women | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 2 |
/sci/ - Science & Math | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 2 |
/soc/ - Cams & Meetups | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
/sp/ - Sports | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | 0 |
/t/ - Torrents | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/tg/ - Traditional Games | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | 3 |
/toy/ - Toys | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | 1 |
/trv/ - Travel | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/tv/ - Television & Film | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 2 |
/u/ - Yuri | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/v/ - Video Games | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/vg/ - Video Game Generals | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/vp/ - Pokémon | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/vr/ - Retro Games | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | 2 |
/w/ - Anime/Wallpapers | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 2 |
/wg/ - Wallpapers/General | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/wsg/ - Worksafe GIF | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/x/ - Paranormal | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | 1 |
/y/ - Yaoi | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 1 |
Selective Archives
These websites archive a selection of threads that users vote to retain.
Swfchan
Swfchan is a massive Flash archive that scrapes and archives flashes from the 4chan /f/ board (among other places). 163831 have been saved as of 2015-02-11.
These flashes are an important artistic record of the culture back in the day.
However, it's funding situation is a bit precarious and relies heavily on pop-up ads and donations to stay alive. It's worth making a contingency backup of the site someday.
Dagobah
Dagobah, another Flash archive strongly associated with 4chan. Also has a ton of 2ch flashes by extension.
4chan Flash archive
4chan Flash archive | |
URL | 4chan.org/flash |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
A small archive of Flash files related to 4chan culture. Run by 4chan and updated very rarely by the staff. The archive was originally started to stop users from posting the same flashes over and over again; any file on the page is not allowed to be posted on /f/.
Sup/tg/
Suptg | |
URL | suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
A site created by /tg/ members in 2009, it has a considerable community of its own, providing reviews and RPG materials. sup/tg/ has a uniquely crated archive with full image support. Unlike most other archives listed, moderators conduct routine purges of low-rated threads, a process they refer to as "graveyarding". The only other site that had a similar policy was Chanarchive, but they deleted threads while they were incoming.
4chandata/4chanarchive
4chandata | |
URL | 4chanarchive.net, formerly 4chandata.org |
Status | Online!, inactive |
Archiving status | In progress... |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
A considerably wide cross-section of 4chan's SFW boards, starting at August 8 2012. Ironically, despite being an imageboard archive, the site itself is unwilling to host images due to the possibility of legal issues surrounding content. While there is content overlap with the Fuuka-based archivers, the site's good to include for the sake of completeness. 4chandata was supplanted by 4chanarchive.net, and both sites appear to be in a precarious hosting situation with archiving coming to a sudden halt on November 20th 2014.
- On 2015-02-25, an ArchiveBot session was started for both 4chanData.org and 4chanarchive.net, to scrape all thread text and upload it to the Wayback Machine before it disappears for good.
- 100GB 4chandata.org Image Archive - An anon uploaded a full backup of over 100GBs of image data from this site before the images were deleted permanently.
Fybertech 4archive
Status: Online Archived?:Yes, currently up to 2015-02-16. Archive again in two months.
Fybertech has one of the largest collections of 2008-2014 4chan threads, outside of the fallen Chanarchive and the modern 4archive. It archives any thread referenced in it's IRC channel, apparently.
The Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a contingency backup of all 9GBs of threads (up to 2015-02-16) to the Internet Archive.
Wikis
- Encyclopedia Dramatica - The quintessential 4chan wiki.
- Insurgency Wiki - Once, it was almost equal to ED in power and influence. Now, thousands of collapses and failures have reduced it to a broken mess. It would have been gone entirely if it was not for the Bibliotheca Anonoma, which happened to be examining Partyvan.info 2 days before it's collapse.
- Bibliotheca Anonoma - A wiki designed to save the greatest treasures from around the internet. It strives to provide an index to the archives below to assess their value and display great works to the public. Because what good is a massive mess of information without a guide?
- Yotsuba Society - A place dedicated to studying the culture of 4chan. Maintains a wiki that strives to restore Wikichan to it's former state.
As of 1/16/14, the archival portion of the site is down.The archives have been moved in their entirety to the Stanford Digital Library. - Wikichan - The first major 4chan wiki, holding tons of important stories and content. It is the model for many 4chan archive projects to come. The entire wiki collapsed spectacularly several times without recourse, and is the prime example of the problems that occur when a major 4chan archive goes down.
- LURKMOAR Wiki
Handmade Archives
4chan thread archives made thanks to the commands: "Right-click, Save As."
If you want to do this in the future, please use the BASC-Archiver (saves everything, full images, thumbnails, HTML, JSON, even child threads). "Right-click, Save As" isn't all that efficient and fails to save the full sized images, so please use the script.
Yotsuba Society Archives
The Yotsuba Society's 4Chan Archive, including separate Imageboard threads /a/, /cgl/, /vg/.
According to the included Message from Jkid: "The following .rar consists of every thread collected from 4chan from my personal archives which were intergrated into the (Yotsuba Society Archives from the Start in 2011) from 2008 to August 2013. Some of these files predate the fuuka archivers that currently exist today to archive almost every thread of every board with the exception of /b/ for obvious reasons.
From 2011 to August 2013 the Yotsuba Society Archives existed to preserve threads from 4chan and every other imageboard in the English chanverse, plus some threads from the Russian and Japanese chanverse. At it's peak, the Archives were the most visited part of the Yotsuba Society website, and the most popular part of the site were the direct downloads of the moot video archive." The message also includes information about the history of this collection.
Penfifteen Archive
In 2013, Vyrd discovered that some anon (whose native language is Finnish) had this curious, undocumented public archive of very, very early handarchived threads from 4chan (along with many other period-appropriate .swfs, videos, and images), spanning all the way from 2004-2008.
Apparently this may have simply been a personal home server that made it's files publicly accessible.
This repository is known as the Penfifteen Archive, and is the most important discovery of early 4chan threads to date. The Bibliotheca Anonoma has preserved it in the Internet Archive for future generations to enjoy.
4chan /soc/ Saved Thread Torrent
The ArchiveTeam grabbed this torrent containing a massive amount of hand-archived /soc/ threads.
Closed Archives
4chan Archives that have shut down, but either have dumps available or transferred their archives to other sites.
4archive
4archive | |
URL | 4archive.org |
Status | Offline |
Archiving status | Saved! |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Another site that saves threads on a unique platform, starting at January 17 2014. This site is notable as it was the only site archiving /b/ until 2015. Images are stored separately through Imgur and Imageshack.
Unfortunately, this site shut down on May 7, 2015. The admin provided a MySQL Dump, which the Bibliotheca Anonoma mirrored to the Internet Archive here:
- [Internet Archive - 4Archive SQL Dump](http://archive.org/details/4archive)
installgentoo.net
installgentoo.net | |
File:Installgentoo.png | |
URL | archive.installgentoo.net |
Status | Offline |
Archiving status | Inherited by rbt.asia and Archive.moe |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Status: Transferred Saves Images?: Partially (all boards except /mlp/ and /x/)
Start Date: 2011-??-?? End Date: 2014-02-??
Archived /diy/, /g/, /sci/, and /tv/ throughout it's lifetime. /tv/ and /sci/ were inherited from Green-Oval and Gentoomen. It may have also archived /pol/ and /k/ for a while, but those archives were transferred to other sites (I'm assuming Heinessen?)
It shut down around Feb. 2014 due to hosting problems, but thankfully dumps of all boards were made public and were inherited by rbt.asia and Foolz.us (now Archive.moe).
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/diy/ - Do It Yourself | 2011-10-23 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net |
/g/ - Technology | 2011-11-11 | rbt.asia <- installgentoo.net |
/sci/ - Science | 2010-05-12 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman |
/tv/ - Television and Film | 2010-02-01 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman |
- Primary Source: FoolCode Developer Adm|nymous
- Internet Archive - installgentoo.net
- Source: Easymodo Info Page
archive.mawa.re
Status: Transferred Archived?: Yes (by loveisover.me)
Start Date: 2014-01-19 End Date: 2013-09-07
Archived /t/. It was shut down by it's owner, but the backups were transferred to loveisover.me.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/t/ - Torrents | 2012-06-08 | loveisover.me <- mawa.re |
archive.heinessen.com
Status: Some Lost, Some Transferred Saves Images?: Partially (all boards except /mlp/ and /x/)
Archived /an/, /fit/, /k/, /mlp/, /r9k/, /toy/, /x/. Also used the alternate domains archive.maidlab.jp and xfiles.to .
Closed on November 2014 due to personal reasons, but the /r9k/, /mlp/, and /k/ archives were made public. The /fit/ archive was privately released to imcute.yt and other undisclosed individuals.
Unfortunately, the admin decided to delete the /an/, /toy/, and /x/ archives without providing backups. These archives date all the way back to 2012.
- imcute.yt inherits all the boards that Heinessen archives, (except for /k/ and /x/), but only inherited history for /fit/ and /mlp/.
- 4plebs.net did not inherit it's /x/ archive, but their own archive dates back to 2013.
- Archive.moe inherited the Heinessen /k/ archive. They also made public Heinessen's 282GB archive of all full-size images from /mlp/, which was then uploaded to the Internet Archive.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/an/ - Animals & Nature | (2012?) Lost | X- heinessen.com (not backed up) |
/fit/ - Fitness | 2010-10-12 | imcute.yt <- heinessen.com |
/gif/ - Adult GIF | (2012?) Lost | X- heinessen.com (not backed up) |
/int/ - International | (2012?) Lost | X- heinessen.com (not backed up) |
/k/ - Weapons | 2012-07-13 | archive.moe <- heinessen.com |
/mlp/ - Ponies | 2012-08-08 | archive.moe & imcute.yt <- heinessen.com |
/r9k/ - ROBOT9000 | 2014-11-10 | archive.moe <- heinessen.com |
/toy/ - Toys | (2012?) Lost | X- heinessen.com (not backed up) |
- Archive.org Torrent Dump - The owner offered a torrent dump of /r9k/ /k/ and /mlp/ temporarily, covering SQL dumps and thumbnails. It is now permanently archived at Archive.org. It's 38.9GB so watch out.
- Archive.moe's /mlp/ Full Image Archive from Heinessen - A 282GB archive of all full-size images from /mlp/, provided by Archive.moe before they expunged them.
- Source: ar.vyrd.net
Foolz Archive
Foolz Archive | |
URL | archive.foolz.us |
Status | Offline |
Archiving status | Partially saved, Inherited by Archive.moe |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
The predecessor to Archive.moe. When Easymodo announced that it's longtime /a/ archive would be shut down, Woxxy (part of the Foolz Scanlation Team) managed to obtain backups and continue where it left off. Later on, the FoolCode developers created, (and are still maintaining) **FoolFuuka**, a significantly improved version of the original Fuuka Archiver. It even allowed anons to comment on threads long after they closed.
Foolz also assumed the boards formerly archived by The Dark Cave, InstallGentoo (/g/, /diy/, /sci/), and Deniable Plausibility (/v/, /vg/).
On August 14, 2014, Foolz.us announced that the service would shut down. The entire archive was spun off and transferred to the newly-built Archive.moe.
Unfortunately, a mishap occurred where most of the thumbnails obtained by Archive.moe were lost forever: By the time the staff noticed that the transfer failed, foolz.net was already deleted. (need more info on this)
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/a/ - Animu & Mango | 2008-02-03 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net <- green-oval.net |
/biz/ - Business and Finance | 2010-10-12 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us |
/c/ - Cute Animu | 2012-04-02 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
/co/ - Comics and Cartoons | 2012-05-21 | archive.moe <- foolz.us |
/diy/ - Do It Yourself | 2011-10-23 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net |
/gd/ - Graphic Design | 2014-07-12 | archive.moe <- foolz.us |
/int/ - International | 2013-01-08 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
/jp/ - Otaku Culture | 2008-02-20 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net |
/m/ - Mecha | 2009-03-27 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net |
/mlp/ - Pony | 2012-03-27 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us |
/out/ - Outdoors | 2012-03-18 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
/po/ - Papercraft and Origami | 2010-10-20 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
/q/ - 4chan Feedback | 2010-10-20 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us (board closed 2013-09-18) |
/sp/ - Sports | Around 2012-06-12? | abandoned, dump at Internet Archive <- archive.moe <- foolz.us |
/sci/ - Science | 2013-10-01 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net <- easymodo.net <- green-oval.net + gentoomen |
/tg/ - Traditional Games | 2010-02-23 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- easymodo.net |
/tv/ - Television and Film | 2010-02-10 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net + gentoomen |
/v/ - Video Games | 2012-02-12 | archive.moe <- vidya.moe <- foolz.us <- deniableplausibility.net |
/vg/ - Video Games Generals | 2012-02-16 (from birth) | archive.moe <- vidya.moe <- foolz.us <- deniableplausibility.net |
/vp/ - Pokemon | 2013-03-13 | archive.moe <- foolz.us |
/vr/ - Retro Games | 2013-03-18 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us |
/wsg/ - Worksafe GIF | 2012-06-05 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us |
- Foolz.us - Final Snapshot before Shutdown
- Bibliotheca Anonoma - Board Addition Dates
- Source: Easymodo Info Page
vidya.moe
Status: Transferred
A short-lived archive for /v/ and /vg/. Shortly before it was shutdown it was revealed that it was actually run by Foolz Archive, launched after they found a way to continue offering public access to /v/'s archive, and run from a different domain due to fears that Foolz's userbase would react negatively to the archive being re-enabled. All of its content was transferred with the rest of Foolz's data to archive.moe.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/v/ - Video Games | 2012-02-12 | archive.moe <- vidya.moe <- foolz.us <- deniableplausibility.net |
/vg/ - Video Games Generals | 2012-02-16 (from birth) | archive.moe <- vidya.moe <- foolz.us <- deniableplausibility.net |
archive.thedarkcave.org
Status: Transferred
An archiver for /c/, /int/, /out/ (since birth), and /po/. All archives were transferred safely to Foolz in June 2014.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/c/ - Cute Animu | 2012-04-02 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
/int/ - International | 2013-01-08 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
/out/ - Outdoors | 2012-03-18 (from birth) | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
/po/ - Papercraft and Origami | 2010-10-20 | archive.moe <- foolz.us <- thedarkcave.org |
boards.deniableplausibility.net
An archiver for /v/ and /vg/. It may have started and suddenly stopped sometime in Summer 2014.
Foolz already archived the same date range, so nothing of value was lost. Though it would be nice if someone had the archives from this site, it could be used to restore /v/ and /vg/ thumbnails on Archive.moe.
Board | Date of Oldest Thread | Pedigree |
---|---|---|
/v/ - Video Games | 2014-??-?? | deniableplausibility.net |
/vg/ - Video Games Generals | 2014-??-?? | deniableplausibility.net |
Easymodo
easymodo.net | |
URL | archive.easymodo.net |
Status | Offline |
Archiving status | Inherited by Foolz.us/Archive.moe |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Start Date: Unknown, possibly 2008 (when /jp/ was founded)? End Date: Around 2012
Easymodo archived /a/, /jp/ (from birth), /m/, /sci/, /tg/, and /tv/.
Mayhem states that the reason the Easymodo Info Page states for /a/: "Easymodo <- Green-Oval <- Easymodo" is because Easymodo came first, transferred it's /a/ archive around 2010 to Green-Oval later on, and then had to take it back when Green-Oval shut down. Confusing.
Eksopl gives a full history of Easymodo and the early days of the Fuuka Archiver here.
When Easymodo shut down, it made it's archives public in some kind of torrent. Foolz and InstallGentoo.net inherited it's collections.
To whomever has the Easymodo archive dumps, please upload it to the Internet Archive. They were essential when Archive.moe accidentally lost it's thumbnails, and should not be lost ever again.
- Unfortunately, due to robots.txt, there are no Wayback Machine snapshots.
- To future archives: Please do not torch your history, it makes our life unnecessarily harder, results in a distorted history for yourself, and hardly saves on traffic.
- Source: Easymodo Info Page
green-oval.net
Start Date: ??? End Date: 2011?
When it shut down around the end of 2011, it hotlinked it's /a/ archive to Easymodo.
Anonymous of Russia
Some curious post-thread discussion in the earliest archived /a/ thread from February 2008, attests that there was a site that archived /a/ all the way to December 2007 (instead of just 2008).
The anon who ran that site was none other than Anonymous of Russia (aka Andrey Osenenko) himself.
However, he got subnet banned and failed to upload backups of those three months. What a shame.
Lost Archives
WorldAthleticProject
Status: Offline Archived?: No
Start Date: (sometime before Aug. 22 2013) End Date: 2013-10-23
WorldAthleticProject was an archiver for the boards /cm/, /s/, /con/, /e/, /h/, /hc/, /soc/, /s4s/, /d/, /pol/, /adv/, /trv/, /lgbt/, /r/, /u/, and /y/.
This archiver also attempted to make a Fuuka vertabrim archive of /b/. Unfortunately, given that /b/tards are a feisty bunch and post CP from time to time (and deletions are difficult to transfer to the archiver), despite having a decent report system, the owner probably wiped all data in a panic when the partyvan came to his door.
Apparently reports aren't enough, you need to log users as well, as fgts,jp will tell you in their archive.
This is the most significant loss of data since the Chanarchive. We need to catalog what was lost (check archival start dates), and possibly recover some bits via Internet Archeology on the Wayback Machine.
- Archive.today - Snapshot of /s4s/ 2013-10-18
- Wayback Machine - http://fuuka.worldathleticproject.org
Foolzashit
Status: Offline
Start Date: (before June 2013) End Date: (around Nov. 2013)
Foolzashit was an archiver for /s4s/ (since it's inception).
Unfortunately, it was lost in it's entirety and backups were not made, so all /s4s/ posts predating Nov. 2013 (when 4plebs.org began archiving) are lost.
Chanarchive
Chanarchive (formerly 4chanarchive) | |
URL | Chanarchive.org, formerly 4chanarchive.org |
Status | Offline |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
4chan's primary archive site. Since 2006, significant 4chan threads have been archived on the 4chanarchive, creating a database of over 500GBs.
On 10/3/2012, Chanarchive without warning, temporarily shut down (almost permanently though.) On a 4chan thread, the owner stated that the site was banned from paypal and had their funds frozen, making it impossible to pay it's massive expenses. However, the operators of Encyclopedia Dramatica stepped in, and offered to host chanarchive.org, which was accepted by the site's creator/then-owner, "Capsized."
The site is still online as of 2/26/13, but no backups have been made as of yet. As of 1/16/14 the site is down and ED has given no indication to it returning. Internet Archive has intermittent captures of the site.
Zaiger, one former mod, stated that a hard drive containing parts of the site got corrupted, and was irreparable. The Chanarchive Team was thus unable to restore the site, or even a backup.
The Bibliotheca Anonoma is attempting to resurrect some portions of the site through Internet Archeology, by sifting through the Wayback Machine's many snapshots of 4chanarchive/Chanarchive. Not everything will be saved, and images are mostly lost, but a significant portion of the threads can at least be read.