Changed concurrency to use a waitgroup

main.go

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 )
 func writeDataToDisk(dest *string, board string, verlog *bool, post map[string]interface{}, cdnresbody []byte) {
-	
 	// Save the mediadata to file
 	err := os.WriteFile(*dest + "/" + board + "-" + strconv.Itoa(int(post["tim"].(float64))) + post["ext"].(string), cdnresbody, 0664 )
 	if err != nil {
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func writeDataToDisk(dest *string, board string, verlog *bool, post map[string]i
 	}
 }
 
-func getPostData(post map[string]interface{}, board string, verlog *bool, dataChannel chan []byte) {
+func getPostData(post map[string]interface{}, board string, verlog *bool) []byte {
 	// Check if post contains media (Video or Image)
 	if post["ext"] != nil {
 		cdnurlstr := "https://i.4cdn.org/" + board + "/" + strconv.Itoa(int(post["tim"].(float64))) + post["ext"].(string)
@@ -48,11 +48,12 @@ func getPostData(post map[string]interface{}, board string, verlog *bool, dataCh
 		} else if (*verlog) {
 			log.Println("Successfully got data from responds body")
 		}
-		dataChannel <- cdnresbody
+		return cdnresbody
 
 	} else if (*verlog) {
 		log.Println("Post " + strconv.Itoa(int(post["no"].(float64))) + " didn't include a image or video")
 	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 
@@ -112,17 +113,24 @@ func main ()  {
 		log.Println("Unmarsheled API responsebody")	
 	}
 	
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+
 	// Iterating the posts from JSON data
 	for _, v := range jdata["posts"].([]interface{}) {
 		post := v.(map[string]interface{})
 	
-		postDataChannel := make(chan []byte)
+		wg.Add(1)
-
-		go getPostData(post, board, verlog, postDataChannel)
-
-		go writeDataToDisk(dest, board, verlog, post, <-postDataChannel)
 		
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			if postdata := getPostData(post, board, verlog); postdata != nil {
+				writeDataToDisk(dest, board, verlog, post, postdata)
 			}
+		}()	
+	}
+
+	wg.Wait()
 
 	log.Println("DONE!!!")