about

fuguri is an image aggregator. Also.. no, no that is actually all.


|How does it work?
- Scrapes and parses posts on image boards and archives the images and related meta data.
- Provides an interface to query the search api and generates the resultant html on the browser.

|Compatibility?
- Supports most modern standards compliant browsers. Does not currently support any Internet Explorer versions earlier than v8. Will likely never bother with quirks css fixes.
- Basically needs javascript and xslt support.

|Quick FAQ
- NSFW/SFW are acronyms for "(not) safe for work"
- The contextual search options appear on the image overlays under the (A)ctions drop down. The different search options are:
- - (S)imilar, which will find the closest matches for similar looking images from IQDB.
- - (T)hread, which will find images scraped from the same thread.
- - (R)elated, which will basically do a tag search based on tags associated with that particular image.
- When selecting a mood using the colour picker keep the saturation for whatever colour you're after somewhere near the middle (50) for the maximum number of results.
- Hover over any option/menu for the relevant tooltip/description.

|Who runs this joint?
- yohsii. If you need to get in touch, use the Wall or contact me: adminATfuguri.org

|Misc
- Currently only scraping the /wg/ (general wallpapers) from 4chan. I stopped scraping the /w/ (anime) board because it's spammed with shambolic embarrassing images instead of the tons of lovely anime art that could be contributed. Which brings me to the next point.
- Please contribute by reporting unpleasant images. Kiddy porn, gratuitous gore and desktop images should be reported.
- You can also help by tagging images. Be consise with the words you pick for tags and use words with more than 3 characters.

|Mildly technical stuff
- Scraper written in PHP 4.
- GD library used to process images.
- MYSQL 4 database in use.
- xHTML and JQuery (javascript library) on the frontend. At the moment the search results are sent from the server as XML and processed on the client using XSLT. Will be changing to JSON as the data format, soonish.