diff --git a/contrib/tools/archive/nntparchive/archiver.py b/contrib/tools/archive/nntparchive/archiver.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3.4
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
+
+import datetime
+import io
+import nntplib
+import time
+import urllib.parse
+
+class Article:
+    """
+    an nntp article
+    """
+
+    timeFormat = '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000' 
+
+    def __init__(self, j, board, site):
+        """
+        construct article
+        :param j: json object
+        """
+        self.j = j
+        self.board = board
+        self.site = site
+        self.messageID = self.genMessageID(j['no'])
+        self.attachments = list()
+        
+    def formatDate(self):
+        return datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(self.j['time']).strftime(self.timeFormat)
+        
+    def message(self):
+        m = ''
+        # for each line
+        for p in BS(self.j['com']).find_all('p'):
+            # clean it
+            m += p.text
+            m += '\n'
+        if len(m) > 0:
+            return m
+
+    def subject(self):
+        if 'subject' in self.j:
+            return self.j['subject']
+
+    def name(self):
+        return self.j['name']
+
+    def group(self):
+        return 'overchan.test.archive.{}.{}'.format(self.site, self.board)
+        
+    def genMessageID(self, no):
+        return '<{}.{}@{}>'.format(self.board, no, self.site)
+        
+    def header(self):
+        hdr = ("Subject: {}\n"+\
+        "From: {} <archiver@srndv2.tools>\n"+\
+        "Date: {}\n"+\
+        "Newsgroups: {}\n"+\
+        "Message-ID: {}\n"+\
+        "Path: {}\n").format(self.subject(), self.name(), self.formatDate(), self.group(), self.messageID, self.site)
+        if self.j['resto'] > 0:
+            hdr += "References: {}\n".format(self.genMessageID(self.j['resto']))
+        return hdr
+
+    def bodyPlain(self):
+        msg = self.message()
+        if msg:
+            return "{}\n{}".format(self.header(), msg)
+
+    def bodyMultipart(self):
+        pass
+
+    def body(self):
+        if len(self.attachments) > 0:
+            return self.bodyMultipart()
+        else:
+            return self.bodyPlain()
+        
+class Poster:
+
+    def __init__(self, host, port):
+        self.host, self.port = host, port
+        
+    def post(self, articles):
+        """
+        post 1 or more articles
+        """
+        if isinstance(articles, Article):
+            return self.post([articles])
+        else:
+            n = nntplib.NNTP(self.host, self.port)
+            for article in articles:
+                body = article.body()
+                if body:
+                    print("posting {}".format(article.messageID))
+                    try:
+                        body = io.BytesIO(body.encode('utf-8'))
+                        n.ihave(article.messageID, body)
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        print('failed: {}'.format(e))
+            n.quit()
+
+
+def url_parse(url):
+    return urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
+            
+class Getter:
+
+    def __init__(self, url):
+        self.url = url
+        self.site = url_parse(url).hostname
+        self.board = url_parse(url).path.split('/')[1]
+
+    def get(self):
+        """
+        yield a bunch of articles
+        """
+        r = requests.get(self.url)
+        j = r.json()
+        for t in j['threads']:
+            posts = t['posts']
+            for post in posts:
+                yield Article(post, self.board, self.site)
+
+
+
+def main():
+    import argparse
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument('--server', type=str, required=True)
+    ap.add_argument('--port', type=int, required=True)
+    ap.add_argument('--board', type=str, required=True)
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+    poster = Poster(args.server, args.port)
+    for n in range(10):
+        getter = Getter('https://8ch.net/{}/{}.json'.format(args.board, n))
+        poster.post(getter.get())
+    
+    
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()