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== Introduction ==
 
== Introduction ==
 
The Owl Message Board Client is a program that allows users to easily read from and post to message boards of varying message board software. The goal of Owl is to support as many different message boards as possible. Owl version 1.0 includes native support for Tapatalk 4.3 and includes a parser for vBulletin 3.x.  
 
The Owl Message Board Client is a program that allows users to easily read from and post to message boards of varying message board software. The goal of Owl is to support as many different message boards as possible. Owl version 1.0 includes native support for Tapatalk 4.3 and includes a parser for vBulletin 3.x.  
 
[http://www.vbulletin.com/ vBulletin], [http://www.phpbb.com/ phpBB] and [http://www.simplemachines.org/ SMF].
 
  
 
The Owl Wiki is a documentation wiki aimed at helping those who want more information in order to download, install and use the Owl Message Board Client. The Owl Wiki also provides detailed documentation on those who wish to write Owl Parsers. Owl Parsers are written in Lua and allow third party developers to add support to Owl for other message board software. Owl Parsers can even target specific message boards like reddit or 4chan.
 
The Owl Wiki is a documentation wiki aimed at helping those who want more information in order to download, install and use the Owl Message Board Client. The Owl Wiki also provides detailed documentation on those who wish to write Owl Parsers. Owl Parsers are written in Lua and allow third party developers to add support to Owl for other message board software. Owl Parsers can even target specific message boards like reddit or 4chan.

Revision as of 20:55, 13 June 2014

Introduction

The Owl Message Board Client is a program that allows users to easily read from and post to message boards of varying message board software. The goal of Owl is to support as many different message boards as possible. Owl version 1.0 includes native support for Tapatalk 4.3 and includes a parser for vBulletin 3.x.

The Owl Wiki is a documentation wiki aimed at helping those who want more information in order to download, install and use the Owl Message Board Client. The Owl Wiki also provides detailed documentation on those who wish to write Owl Parsers. Owl Parsers are written in Lua and allow third party developers to add support to Owl for other message board software. Owl Parsers can even target specific message boards like reddit or 4chan.

Owl currently runs on Windows (Windows 7 and later) and MacOS (10.6 and later). Mobile versions are planned for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone.

Release Plan

We are working on a release plan for the first version of Owl. In the next week we plan to start releasing regular builds. You can see our release plan here: Owl 1.0 Release Plan.

Quick Links

Download
Look here for all your download needs


Help & Issues
Visit our forum for help or view open issues.
Administrators
Resources for administrators of message boards


Developers
Resources for developers writing new parsers for Owl
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Owl screenshot. More screenshots on Twitter