LJ Client/Server protocol question

[pstas]

I wonder if I can use "getevents" method to access posts of users other than myself?
If yes, please point me to a relevant example.

Comments

[andy]

No.

[pstas]

Thank you! Please advice what would be the easiest way to find when the post (not mine) was submitted?

[andy]

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.

[pstas]

Sorry, let me expand my question:

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?

[andy]

1). parse http://vlnv.livejournal.com/15531.html?format=light

2). try to find it in an RSS/Atom feed, both of which should have "date" metadata

[pstas]

Thanks, let me play with your suggestions.

[pne]

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.)

[pstas]

Good point! Thank you.

one more question

[pstas]

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:

http://vlnv.livejournal.com/15531.html?format=light&user=pstas&password=zzz

[andy]

To the best of my knowledge, no, you can't.

[pstas]

Thanks!