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4chan Boards API

List of all boards on 4chan and 4channel and their per-board settings.

4chan Boards API is one of 6 APIs that 4chan publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Boards. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and a support channel.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 2026-05-28.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://a.4cdn.org, http://a.4cdn.org.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
2026-05-28
Base URL
https://a.4cdn.org
Contact
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Boards 1

List of all boards on 4chan and 4channel and their per-board settings.

GET
/boards.json
4chan List All Boards
getBoards → 200304404503

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Board (29 properties), Cooldowns (3 properties), BoardsResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Cooldowns
object
Per-board cooldown intervals (in seconds) between successive posts of each type.
3 properties
Board
object
A single board on 4chan or 4channel and its configured settings.
29 properties 13 required
BoardsResponse
object
Top-level response from /boards.json.
1 property 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

4chan-boards-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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4chan Archive API
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4chan Threadlist API
4chan Threads API