https://github.com/evmar/goodbye-lj

scripts to archive and delete livejournal posts
https://github.com/evmar/goodbye-lj

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scripts to archive and delete livejournal posts

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/evmar/goodbye-lj
• Owner: evmar
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2012-10-16T17:14:09.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-10-16T17:14:32.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T22:17:13.106Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 99.6 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
When [I quit LiveJournal][quit] I worried that some future owner of

the site would do something distasteful with my data -- like decide

that my private posts should be made public.  I wrote two quick

scripts: one to archive all my posts locally, and one to delete them

from the site one by one.

After writing over the years two or three LJ exporters into different

formats, I came to realize the most future-proof archive is plain

text. So this program saves each post into an individual text file

with the post metadata listed like RFC822 mail headers at the top.

WARNING: I wrote this years ago and only thought to publish it now.

From a skim through the code it appears to only save a listed set of

post metadata (subject, date, etc.).  If I were to write it now I'd

have it instead just save any attributes provided by the LiveJournal

export protocol.  The difference is that there is other post metadata

(like "current music" or whatever) that LJ added over the years that

this doesn't save.  Oh well, too late now -- I only cared about the

post text anyway.

WARNING 2: You'll need to adjust the code to use it on your own

content.  Don't worry, it's pretty simple.

[quit]: http://evan.livejournal.com/991055.html