What it does
5ch Thread Tracker scrapes 5ch (5ちゃんねる, formerly 2channel) — the largest and most influential anonymous message board in Japan. List live thread lists with real post counts across boards like newsplus, VIP and 政治ニュース+, or read every post inside a thread for full-text mining. No login and no API. It's the single hardest-to-reach high-signal Japanese text corpus, and there's no English-language tool for it.
Who it's for
JP sentiment-analysis and trend-detection teams, brand-monitoring analysts, and anyone building a Japanese-language RAG corpus.
Sample fields / output
- board (slug), thread_id
- title (full Japanese thread title)
- post_count (the live buzz signal), last_active
- thread_url (direct read link)
- thread-posts mode: post number, author handle, ID, timestamp, full body text
- data_source, as_of_timestamp
Example use cases
- Detect what's gripping Japan by post-count buzz, often before English coverage.
- Pull every post in a thread for sentiment analysis.
- Build an unfiltered Japanese opinion corpus for RAG or full-text search.
Try it
Run JP 5ch Thread Tracker on Apify ->
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FAQ
Do I need a login or API key?
No. 5ch is read with no login and no API.
Can I read every post in a thread?
Yes — switch to thread-posts mode to pull the full post body text for each post.
Which boards are supported?
Boards such as newsplus, mnewsplus, VIP and 政治ニュース+, plus keyword search within a board.
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