Your wording here is not too specific, but if I'm understanding correctly, you can subscribe to the journal the entry in question would be posted to and receive a notification via inbox/email/stuff.
I could download the post and search its HTML for the date, but it seems that different journals use different formats, so this solution seems complex. Would you suggest a better answer?
Also, note that this will probably only tell you the time that the user chose -- not the server time when it was submitted. (Users can choose a date in the past or the future for their posts, of course.)
Andy, just in case you have a spare minute. To access certain pages the way you recommend I need to authenticate myself. Mathematica doesn't support cookies so I wonder if I can do something like this:
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I have an address of LJ post (e.g. http://vlnv.livejournal.com/15531.html). How can I *programmatically* extract the date when it was posted?
I could download the post and search its HTML for the date, but it seems that different journals use different formats, so this solution seems complex. Would you suggest a better answer?
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2). try to find it in an RSS/Atom feed, both of which should have "date" metadata
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http://vlnv.livejournal.com/15531.html?format=light&user=pstas&password=zzz
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