LiveJournal Development

Downloading LiveJournal to an e-reader format.

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:00:54 GMT

Is there a way to download LiveJournal directly into EPub or Kindle format?

I find it more comfortable to read an e-ink screen but the Kobo's built-in browser is fiddly.

Friends entries

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:07:30 GMT

Hi, All

I need to get friends list in my app. I am going to run over html content and scrap needed data.
Do we have some way to specify in which style We get friends list ( Something like this http://zuma.livejournal.com/friends?style=Everwhite&skip=10 or http://vodex.livejournal.com/friends/?s2id=StyleId&auth=digest ).
How can i know what is the ID of certain style ?

Thanks.

All apis supported by LJ

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:52:56 GMT

Hi, developers. I try to find all type of api supported by LJ or it's services.
Today I have only 2: XML-RPC API and FotoBuilder API.
May be there are more apis?

More XFN support in profiles

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:03:20 GMT

Hi -- here's a patch that adds proper rel="me" for the yahoo and last.fm portions of the profile. I'd like to also add the same to the twitter/facebook/other links from

my $instant_message_xtra = LJ::run_hook('userinfo_instant_message_extra', user => $u, remote => $remote, mangleaddress => $mangleaddress );

If anyone can point me at the source for that I can also patch that.

Thanks!

Paul

===================================================================

--- htdocs/userinfo.bml (revision 22866)

+++ htdocs/userinfo.bml (working copy)

@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@

my $yim = LJ::ehtml($u->{'yahoo'});

my $yim_alt = $ML{'.im.yim'};

my $yimstatus_alt = $ML{'.im.yim.status'};

- $instant_message .= "<tr class='im_yahoo'><td class='im_icon'><img src='$LJ::IMGPREFIX/profile_icons/yahoo.gif?v=14273' alt=\"$yim_alt\" title=\"$yim_alt\" /></td><td><a href='http://profiles.yahoo.com/$yim'>$yim</a></td><td class='im_status'><img alt=\"$yimstatus_alt\" title=\"$yimstatus_alt\" src='http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=$yim&m=g&t=0' width='12' height='12' /></td></tr>\n";

+ $instant_message .= "<tr class='im_yahoo'><td class='im_icon'><img src='$LJ::IMGPREFIX/profile_icons/yahoo.gif?v=14273' alt=\"$yim_alt\" title=\"$yim_alt\" /></td><td><a rel-'me' href='http://profiles.yahoo.com/$yim'>$yim</a></td><td class='im_status'><img alt=\"$yimstatus_alt\" title=\"$yimstatus_alt\" src='http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=$yim&m=g&t=0' width='12' height='12' /></td></tr>\n";

}

if ($u->{'msn'}) {

my $msnname = $mangleaddress->(LJ::ehtml($u->{'msn'}));

@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@

my $url_escaped_last_fm_user = LJ::eurl($u->{'last_fm_user'});

$lastfm_url =~ s/%username%/$url_escaped_last_fm_user/g;

- my $lastfm = "<a href='$lastfm_url'>" . LJ::ehtml($u->{'last_fm_user'}) . "</a>";

+ my $lastfm = "<a rel='me' href='$lastfm_url'>" . LJ::ehtml($u->{'last_fm_user'}) . "</a>";

my $lastfm_alt = $ML{'.im.lastfm'};

$instant_message .= "<tr class='im_lastfm'><td class='im_icon'><img src='$LJ::IMGPREFIX/profile_icons/lastfm.gif?v=14402' alt=\"$lastfm_alt\" title=\"$lastfm_alt\" /></td><td colspan='2'>$lastfm</td></tr>\n";

}

How to download all posts from journal

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:37:56 GMT

I try to make local copy of my friends posts for 2012 using flat API.

There are two ways to do this:

1. Get posts ID using mode=syncitems, and get posts later using mode=getevents. This method works only for my journal and communities. If I try to request data (mode=syncitems) from other journal, server answers "Client error: Don't have access to requested journal"

2. Downloads posts using mode=getevents & selecttype=syncitems & lastsync=.... This method works for any journals, but I can't find source of good value for lastsync time. If server returns first 100 posts, I need to continue using modification time of last received post. But LJ does not include it in answer (it present in mode=syncitems answer only)

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:49:08 GMT

Is there any API available helping to get user's date of registration and location?

weirdness in XML-RPC API

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:08:00 GMT

Hi,

I think I found some problem in XML-RPC API when using getcomments & getfriendspage method to get comments & friend posts respectively.

If comment/post body is something like "+100", API will return xml with field of type "int", not string or base64 (this is also not documented anywhere when API returns plain string and when base64).

Example xml:

<member>
  <name>body</name>
  <value>
    <int>+100</int>
  </value>
</member>

Is it a bug?

Installing Livejournal: location of files and importance of Subversion

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:04:35 GMT

I wish to install Livejournal for my website. I tried my best, but I could not find a page or location from where I can download the LJ installation files. My sites are hosted at IXwebhosting.com, and they told me that my account has Perl(v5.8.8), MySQL - 5.0.41, apache-1.3.37, mod_perl 1.29, but no Subversion. So, here are my questions:

1. From where do I download the files needed to install Livejournal for my website? Will I be able to install them through FTP?

2. How important or compulsory is it to have Subversion for installation and maintenance of Livejournal? Will it be possible to get updates and keep the software up-to-date without Subversion?

editfriends and edit friends

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:37:51 GMT

>This function allows adding, editing, and deleting friends from the Friends list.

With adding and deleting friends all good. But I don't understand how to edit friend? How to change via api his bgcolor and fgcolor and change group.
Any ideas?

Groupmask in getfriends responce

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:37:43 GMT

How convert groupmask to groups which friend belongs to?

API for communities

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:14:11 GMT

Hello. I want to get more info about communities via API, but I found only names in profile responce. Does exist api for getting information about community, such as amount of members, your priveleges in this community and etc?

XMLRPC and fault (error) codes

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:20:04 GMT

I'm looking for documentation about erorr codes. Can you help me?

iPhoto Plugin

Sun, 06 May 2012 15:25:55 GMT

I know that there used to be an LJ plugin for iPhoto. I'm wondering if anyone would like to tackle the job of updating and/or making a new iPhoto plugin.

new Oragir v0.2 beta

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:19:05 GMT

oragir v0.2 beta

the second beta version is released. there are following features and changes:

can download the whole journal from LJ server and backup it on hard disk
allows writing new blog entries and edit existing ones
has modern WYGIWYS html editor
keeps the archive entries synced with the server
improved gui and html visualization

New Oragir 0.2 can be downloaded from here.

Posted via Oragir v0.2 (beta)

Invalid password: please help me check my data

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:41:20 GMT

Hi all,

I keep getting "errmsg:Invalid password" while trying to log in on /interface/flat, using challenge/response. I am using the right password and the MD5 hash is computed correctly (or so is seems). Maybe something is wrong with the way I use auth_challenge?

First I send "mode=getchallenge", this is what I get back:

Connection code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
auth_scheme
c0
challenge
c0:1329793200:79:60:LYkBrahns8cN8Hz5EodP:c446c32ac9c7908609c24e5facba41e9
expire_time
1329793339
server_time
1329793279
success
OK

Apparently, everything goes fine and I get a challenge string back which is: c0:1329793200:79:60:LYkBrahns8cN8Hz5EodP:c446c32ac9c7908609c24e5facba41e9

Using this string, I compute auth_response.
Now, this is the complete query with all the data that I'm sending to the server:
query: mode=login&user=ellie_1928&auth_method=challenge&auth_challenge="c0%3A1329793200%3A79%3A60%3ALYkBrahns8cN8Hz5EodP%3Ac446c32ac9c7908609c24e5facba41e9"&auth_response=5f9b791790b98f7fa89794a46a2b757a

That's what I get back:
OK
Auth response
errmsg
Invalid password
success
FAIL

As I said, I checked the MD5 hashes and the password itself.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Downloading comments

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:45:07 GMT

Hi all,

In order to process blog content for some academic research, I would need to download the comments for an article. I can already download the articles (by scraping the lightweight version of the article), but I am not quite sure how to download comments. One problem being that some comments must be expanded by clicking on a link before they are visible.

Are there any solutions available on how to download comments for public blog posts?

Downloading all public articles from a blog

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:11:41 GMT

Hi all,

I am looking for a way (for academic research) to download all articles from a blog in XML/JSON format. Is this somehow possible? I know of the RSS feed mentioned on http://www.livejournal.com/bots/ but then I only get the most recent articles from a blog, not all of them.

I would also be interested in a way to get a specific article's content in XML/JSON format, if I know the direct URL to it. I haven't found a way to do this (other than, again, the RSS feed, but the article might not be listed in the feed as it shows only the recent articles from that blog).

I am new to LiveJournal so any help is highly appreciated :) Thanks!

Timeout

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:23:32 GMT

Hi,

Does anybody know what is the minimal allowed timeout between two xmlrpc requests to the LiveJournal server? Yes, I know, there is so called "Bot policy" (http://www.livejournal.com/bots/) that says: "do not connect more than five times per second.", but since LJ documentation is usually not up to date, I need some formal clarification on this, if possible.

Thanks.

Posted via Oragir v0.2 (beta)

Net::HTTP::Spore for multiple-service clients

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:53:40 GMT

Been a while since we haven't had a discussion here that didn't revolve around "foo is broken!" or "how does bar work?" so I decided to throw this in for discussion:

Has anyone tried using the SPORE specification, Net::HTTP::Spore, or any of the other implementations (Ruby, Python, and PHP IIRC) to implement similar-but-not-identical clients for services based on LiveJournal or Dreamwidth? Any opinion of the modules themselves (if you've used them) or the spec and APIs (if you only read the docs) you'd like to share?

iOS Library to work with LJ

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:55:36 GMT

Hello, guys!

Is there any library or project for iOS (iPhone/iPad) to work with Livejournal API?

Thanks for your help!

A list of posts from friends for a given day

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:07:46 GMT

Hi!

Is it possible to somehow get a list of posts from friends for a given day? Say, I want to get a list of posts from http://youngracoon.livejournal.com/friends/ written on Dec, 24. How would I do that? Any suggestion or a link to a proper chapter in documentation?

Thanks,
Rac

Alternative multipltform client for LiveJournal web-based service

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:46:15 GMT

Oragir project implements an alternative multipltform client for LiveJournal web-based service. In contrast to other clients that allow reading and writing new entries in LiveJournal for a single user at a time, Oragir provides fast and easy way to "watch" and filter all newly added entries from all LiveJournal users at run time and store filtering results for future use. Being written in c++ with using Qt toolkit oragir performs well on any supported platforms such as Windows, Linux, Mac etc.

Oragir 0.1 (beta) for Windows is released: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oragir/files/latest/download. For the rest of platforms you can build it from the sources.
I will appreciate your feedback and suggestions.

Main Window

Filter dialog

LJournaler 2.0 — reworked LJ client for iOS

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:39:02 GMT

Would like to present you an updated LiveJournal client for iOS (iPhone & iPad versions available). Great thanks for the community — it helped a lot in mining cloudy LJ API :)

Full-screen fried feed to concentrate on what's really matters:

Viewing LJ post. Swipe up to maximize viewing area, or left/right to navigate the feed:

Firends and community lists. From here you can also go to read the desired journal:

The app supports unlimited user accounts for LJ(!):

All of the features are available on the iPad as well:

Links for downloading:
iPhone-version
iPad-version
QRs:

The first twenty authors who will write a post about the new client will get a free promo code for iPhone or iPad version (please leave the links in the comments, if you have more then 100 followers then you'll get promos for both devices)!

XML-RPC get chalenge

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:02:21 GMT

Hello,

Seems something happen with getchallenge.

My code, which worked about 3 years, now return false.
Does it changed something in interface?

Below my sources

Thank you

$request = xmlrpc_encode_request("LJ.XMLRPC.getchallenge", array());
$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(
'method' => "POST",
'header' => "Content-Type: text/xml",
'content' => $request
)));

$file = file_get_contents("http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc", false, $context);