https://github.com/mplewis/codechan

An idea shamelessly stolen from codereddit.com, with an imageboard twist.
https://github.com/mplewis/codechan

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An idea shamelessly stolen from codereddit.com, with an imageboard twist.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mplewis/codechan
• Owner: mplewis
• Created: 2012-10-06T18:44:18.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-11-16T01:07:00.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T04:56:06.875Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 191 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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codeChan: 4chan isn't worksafe, but this is close

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An idea shamelessly stolen from [codeReddit.com](http://www.codereddit.com/), with an *imageboard twist*.

codeChan reads in data from 4chan's JSON API and serves it back in the browser looking like *big chunks of Python code*.

Go ahead: try it out at my [public codeChan server!](http://chan.kesdev.com/) (Pages update at most once every 20 seconds, so don't F5-bomb me, please.)

dependencies: what do I need?

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 * [Flask](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask/0.9) web server: because [Jinja 2](http://jinja.pocoo.org/) loves you

 * [psycopg2](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/psycopg2) (for proxying JSON data)

 * [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org/) (for proxying JSON data)

 * [PyYAML](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML/3.10) (I think this comes built into Python 2.7)

okay, so how do I get started?

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Configuration options can be found in `sampleConfig.yml`.

**Make sure to copy `sampleConfig.yml` to `config.yml` and change the database login so that your server actually runs!**

Next, **setup the postgres database.** Or else you'll just get 500 Internal Server Errors and that makes Flask sad. Try running the experimental script `sqlSetup.py`. It should walk you through the process just fine, but be careful - it's not fully tested.

To start a codeChan web server on (default) port `9001`:

    python codeChanServer.py

Your server will not serve publicly to the internet unless you turn off the `develMode` option in `config.yml`.

other stuff for your reading pleasure

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Now with support for proxying requests to 4chan. Hopefully this is a bit nicer to the 4chan API. It doesn't comply completely with requests yet - 4chan asks me to limit my server to one request a second - so be on your best behavior.

Props to [codeReddit](http://www.codereddit.com/) for the fantastic idea and implementation.

future plans

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I'm going to try to get this to work with WSGI instead of being a standalone server so you can plug it right into your nginx or apache install.