Service metadata

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/fourchan-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/fourchan-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/fourchan-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/fourchan-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "source": "4chan read-only JSON API (a.4cdn.org; live)",
        "service": "fourchan-api",
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/hot": "The single hottest thread on a board right now, fully expanded (board=g).",
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/boards": "All boards (worksafe=true to filter to SFW only).",
            "GET /v1/thread": "One thread in full by id (board=g, no=<id>); omit no= to get the current top thread.",
            "GET /v1/catalog": "A board's live catalog summarized (board=g; sort=bump|replies|images, limit)."
        },
        "description": "Live read-only access to the 4chan imageboard from its official JSON API: every board with code, title, worksafe flag and description; a board's full live catalog summarized (OP subject, plain-text teaser, reply/image counts, sticky/closed, last bump), sorted by activity; one thread in full (OP + every reply, HTML stripped to plain text); and the single hottest thread on a board right now, self-discovered so the id never expires. Live board state, nothing stored. Distinct from Reddit, Hacker News and Lemmy APIs — this is 4chan's boards, catalogs and threads.",
        "upstream_status": "ok",
        "boards_available": 77
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-09T11:38:35.285Z",
        "request_id": "a7d3f87b-d3d1-40ba-9556-3a591e2ac0ab"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}