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Documentation for 4chan's read-only JSON API.
http://www.4chan.org/
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thumbnail resource path #24

Closed neuro-sys closed 9 years ago

neuro-sys commented 9 years ago

Thumbnail resource URLs have a seemingly random subdomain prefix which is an integer.

The document says:

Thumbnails: http(s)://t.4cdn.org/{board}/{tim}s.jpg

Whereas in reality this URL can be like this:

http://0.t.4cdn.org/v/99999999s.jpg

I couldn't find anything related in the documentation.

neuro-sys commented 9 years ago

Oh well, apparently they're different hosts for load-balancing.

Although it could be better if you closed this down with an explanatory comment.

htrefil commented 9 years ago

Nice meme

moot commented 9 years ago

We load thumbnails from "0/1.t.4cdn.org" to speed up thumbnail loading in older web browsers. We may change this in the future though, which is why we request people using the API to always use "t.4cdn.org" to load thumbnails.