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302: lj_dev

[Oct. 10th, 2007|02:22 pm]

In the interests of consolidating all LiveJournal development-related discussion, we're going to be closing down this community. The same conversations we've been having here can instead be posted to

lj_dev.

lj_dev will be the place for everything related to LiveJournal/FotoBilder development topics. This includes both the code itself, client development, as well as installing the code. So, feel free to join the community and participate. :)

Plain text to LJ

[Oct. 5th, 2007|10:01 pm]

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I have an old blog from xanga that's in html/plain text and I want to move it over here. Which client would be the best to do this? I also want to post it on LJ as the original date that I posted it in my old blog so an easy way to change the date would be nice too.

ljKlient 0.2.0 Preview Release 1

[Oct. 3rd, 2007|11:00 pm]

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Today marks another milestone in the development of ljKlient — as the first preview of the 0.2 series is released. Please go to the project website to download the package.

( Feature review and a tutorial )

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LJ-Sec updated to v0.60

[Sep. 17th, 2007|05:38 pm]

LJ-Sec is a bulk journal entry management tool. It allows you to bulk change post security, delete posts, find and replace items, and repost journal entries to other LJ-compatible servers. LJ-Sec has been updated to version 0.60 today.

This adds several features:

Community management. Finally, you can use this to back up and repost communities!

Caveat: Livejournal obviously won't let you repost or edit some other person's entry as anybody other than yourself, so LJ-Sec treats these entries differently. Read the documentation for more information.

Configurations. Configurations can now be loaded and saved, which makes managing multiple journals easier. A new configuration manager brings forth many settings previously hidden.

Other changes:

You can override the default behavior in regards to the cache that stores journal entries, and utilize your own file. Again, this makes managing multiple journals easier.

You can now disable the "resynchronize on login" feature if you want.

New options for selecting posts: "Select inverse" and "Select My Entries Only" (the later option is mainly for community management)

Resynchronization should now show a bit less of those "server retries" errors.

LJ-Sec now requires the .NET framework version 2.0. IE 5.0 is also required. All posts also must be in Unicode in order for LJ-Sec to sync right (you can convert older posts here).

Backing up your journal using a tool like LJArchive is strongly recommended before using LJ-Sec.

Find the download for LJ-Sec at http://www.mp3vcr.com/ljsec/.

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[Aug. 31st, 2007|11:38 am]

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows of an LJ client that also allows you to view/manage comments to journal entries. I have a couple differerent journals and find it cumbersome to have to be constantly logging out/logging in to work with comments.

Thanks in advance!!

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if you want bots to cache, make the resources cacheable!

[Aug. 30th, 2007|08:07 pm]

LiveJournal's bot policy page says:

"You are encouraged to cache the results of your bot's requests, which saves us bandwidth and CPU time. Bots making repeated requests on the same resource (URL) in a short amount of time will be blocked."

However, the HTTP responses LiveJournal sends for FOAF data are, per the heuristics in RFC 2616, nearly uncacheable. They don't include Last-Modified or Expires headers. There's sort of a cognitive disconnect going on here.

$ curl -I http://frank.livejournal.com/data/foaf
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:27:28 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: private, proxy-revalidate
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-length: 45098
Keep-Alive: timeout=30, max=100
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/rdf+xml; charset=utf-8

Clearly a custom application can cache the data however it wants. But it would be a lot more convenient if we could take advantage of HTTP-level caching support in web client frameworks. I've just spent much of the day struggling with such a framework, trying in vain to convince it to cache FOAF resources so I didn't have to re-invent the wheel. :-/

Community Cross-posting Software

[Aug. 27th, 2007|08:50 pm]

What Windows-compatible software (or server-based software that interoperates with Windows-compatible software) allows for easy cross-posting to multiple personal journals and/or communities? Which also allow you to easily edit the cross-posted post and have changes reflected in all of the journals it was posted in? Do any also allow you to automatically add a list of all journals it was cross-posted to?

Cross-posted.

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Speed [Aug. 26th, 2007|10:37 pm]

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Probably slightly off-topic. Something I noticed in the last couple weeks is that whenever I try to log in with ljklient, it takes ages to get a reply from the server — so much that it takes around a minute to log in to the service. I haven’t changed a thing in my code, and one of my translators mentions the same problem, so I wonder what’s going on.

Anyone have a clue?

EDIT.

Okay, it was the whole AAAA lookup mess as usual. I’m really glad that linux is daft like that, using AAAA lookups even when I have no ipv6 enabled. Strangely enough, there’s a proper reply right away when I dig for the AAAA record of www.livejournal.com — yet ljKlient tries four times, every 5 seconds, until it finally gives up and does an A record lookup.

A solution would be if LiveJournal were available on ipv6 :P I’ll try to figure out how to stop Python from doing this until then…

EDIT.

Wireshark to the rescue! Using my ISP or OpenDNS makes them fire back empty responses as proper, and then the software tries on “A” pretty quickly — my router however tries to be helpful by immediately looking it up on “A” once “AAAA” failed, and replies with a PTR: “18.177.9.204.in-addr.arpa: type PTR, class IN, www.livejournal.com” which apparently is too confusing to something in my system. Fun.

So, well, back on topic — if you use ljKlient and it’s ridiculously slow for you at logging in… set your nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf to OpenDNS’s addresses. Should help a lot.

[Aug. 21st, 2007|09:01 am]

half_my_own_man

Is there a client that would change all or selected posts to friends-only?

--Okay, I see LJSec does for your personal journal, but how about for a community that I run? Even if it's just for my posts in that community?

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Read blogs

[Aug. 15th, 2007|01:49 am]

Hello!
I want write a program that will read livejournal blogs. I found this doc http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ljp.csp.xml-rpc.getevents.html, but it says that user must log in to read blogs, that is, user must have an account. So... Is there any way to read blogs without logging?

Translated by Google =)

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LJ-Sec updated to v0.55

[Aug. 10th, 2007|04:09 pm]

LJ-Sec is a bulk journal entry management tool. It allows you to bulk change post security, delete posts, find and replace items, and repost journal entries to other LJ-compatible servers. LJ-Sec has been updated to version 0.55 today.

This fixes two issues with international settings (Cyrillic tags and titles would get wiped on edit; systems using European dates could not synchronize properly); enhances the error logging system and throws up a couple of more user friendly error messages; and makes it more difficult to accidentally repost entries in your own journal. Some other minor updates were performed to the GUI, plus there are some behind-the-scenes improvements. Thanks to

vargtimmen for some coding support.

Future items on the todo list include enhanced configuration management and community support.

LJ-Sec now requires the .NET framework version 2.0. IE 5.0 is also required. All posts also must be in Unicode in order for LJ-Sec to sync right (you can convert older posts here). The Mono compatible version now requires 1.2.

Backing up your journal using a tool like LJArchive is strongly recommended before using LJ-Sec.

Find the download for LJ-Sec at http://www.mp3vcr.com/ljsec/.

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The Lemming save us from bad documentation and people who talk at the theatre

[Aug. 8th, 2007|12:57 pm]

I've been set a programming exercise of creating a fully-featured class to communicate with LJ servers, using both the flat and XML-RPC APIs. Problem is that the LJ documentation appears to be woefully out of date. Would anyone happen to have an up-to-date copy of the flat and XML-RPC API docs, or failing that, a list of everything that's different in implementation from the docs, including missing functions? Any information on possible differences/traps between LJ's in-use code base and their open source code base would be useful, too.

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Mobile posting

[Jul. 29th, 2007|02:22 pm]

Hi everyone,

I'm adding a post here about something that I recently created. You see while clients exist for my plam Treo 700P none of them really worked right, especially the java based ones. It also seems that the wap clients listed on the clients page resulted in a 404 or where not able to be located. As a result I came up with something really neat I wrote a PHP and XHTML based gateway to allow me to post from my Treo. The best part of it is I've released the source code under the GPL v3 for anyone to use. I've built this client to work with my treo and a blackberry 8830. It should work on all Treos and most blackberrys, as well as any modern smart phone or pda that can interpret XHTML. I've listed the requirements for it to run below. I hope this helps some you looking to build something similar, it gives you an idea of how it can be done.

Requirements:

PHP4 or PHP5
PEAR
PEAR HTTP_REQUEST module

Click here for the source code

Posting from a website

[Jul. 20th, 2007|01:54 pm]

Hi, I'm wanting to make a web app that will provide a "Post this to Livejournal" style functionality. Either a link to the site or embedding media. I'd like it to be as simple as possible, i.e. a link that will take you straight to the "Update Journal" page with the embedded stuff/link already filled in and the user only having to add comments if they want and hit the post button. Anyone here know how I'd go about doing that?

Failing that, is there anything publicly available that will provide this functionality?

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convenient managing of favourite lists

[Jul. 19th, 2007|11:30 am]

Is there a client for convenient managing of the list of favourite posts? For example, if I have about 1000 entries in my list of favourite posts and I wanna clear my list of favourite posts or make them all private for viewing, it's very unconvenient to do it using usual method beacuse I have to do it with each entry separately.

The same question for posts of a journal. Is there a convenient client for managing to make all (!) the posts of my journal into private posts?

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Insert table "defaults code" -- I want to change it.

[Jul. 13th, 2007|02:33 pm]

dailyafirmation

I use Semagic, and in HTML mode, when I click on Format > Insert table, this is what gets added to my workspace:

<table width="2" border="2" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3"><tr><td></td></tr>
</table>

Two things:

1) Is there a way to either make this "canned code" exclude the width attribute altogether (or at the very least, make the default different from "2")?

2) Is there a way to make the "table" tag not be on a new line?

Thanks for any help from anyone.

Jabber LJ_Bot client feature request - gmail interface!

[Jul. 10th, 2007|03:55 pm]

So I don't quite know if this should be posted here or if this should be posted in lj_dev, so sorry if it's wrong.

I don't quite know how the lj_bot is implemented and how neccessary it is to run on it's own server, however, it would seem to me that if we could provide a setting in our lj profiles for a gchat id, then if the lj_bot were to connect to gchat, it could verify that setting, and authenticate a gmail user as the equivalent lj_user and implement all the same functionality it already has. I'd love to be able to make posts from my gmail account on the run.

[Mid Writing Edit] It looks like you can add Frank to your gmail buddylist, you just: [16:06:41] LJ Bot (Frank) (bot): Can't post from non-LiveJournal Jabber addresses yet. [/Mid Writing Edit]

Is there any update on the schedule for this feature?

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a cryptic post

[Jul. 9th, 2007|08:53 am]

I was reading the LJ front page today, and it mentioned that "not all clients support custom security", when referring to the use of custom friends groups to be able to filter one's readers into groups.

What does that mean? It could be interpreted in a number of different ways!

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Tag editing?

[Jul. 3rd, 2007|06:12 pm]

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I'm trying to find a client that would help with editing/re-adding very old tags in a community -- they're glitched, and aren't showing up on the actual tag pages. I was directed here from livejournal support, but I have no idea if this is where I should be. (:

Thanks for your time!

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Looking for .Net implementation of LJ Protocal...

[Jun. 21st, 2007|10:39 pm]

Greetings,

Is there a good .Net implementation of the LJ protocol floating around? Specifically, something that can retrieve and edit posts? Or should I just write my own?

Thanks!

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