pyconversations.message.ChanPost

class pyconversations.message.ChanPost(**kwargs)

4chan post object with additional 4chan-specific features

static clean_text(comment)

Cleans the raw HTML of a cached 4chan post, returning both the references and teh comment itself

Parameters

comment (str) – The raw text of a 4chan comment

Returns

2-tuple(str, list(int)) – The comment text and a list of identified reference IDs

static exclude_replies(comment)

Function to remove quotes from a reply and return reference to the posts that were replied to

Parameters

comment (str) – Text from 4chan comment

Returns

2-tuple(str, list(int)) – The comment and the list of identified references

static parse_datestr(x)

Static method that specifies how to convert the native datetime string into a a Python datetime object.

Parameters

x (str) – The raw datetime string

Returns

datetime.datetime – Creation datetime of 4chan timestamp

static parse_raw(data, lang_detect=False)

Static method that must be implemented by all non-abstract child classes. Concrete implementations should specify how to parse the raw data into this object.

Parameters

• data (JSON/dict) – The raw data to be pre-processed.

• lang_detect (bool) – A boolean which specifies whether language detection should be activated. (Default: False)

Returns

ChanPost – The parsed post