Friends entries

[smamit]

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 Read more... )

Comments

[jdevelop]

http://www.livejournal.com/misc/fdata.bml?user=username

[smamit]

Hi, I meant friend`s entries which are retrieved by "youUserName.livejournal.com/friends"

[jdevelop]

you may want to take the friends list, then retrieve RSS feed for every friend and then aggregate it in single RSS feed. You may want to review https://github.com/jdevelop/lj2rss - it is doing almost the same as you wish (eventually it sends e-mail messages with latest replies)

[smamit]

I don`t this this is a good approach because if the user has , for example , 100 friends so it will take a lot of time to perform 100 requests.

[jdevelop]

it depends :) you may spawn 100 threads for instance

[smamit]

I saw Lj-client app for android which allows to see friends entries. Each request retrieves 20 entries. So I suppose that there is an other working way :)

[jdevelop]

perhaps they have their own server-side part, which does the aggregation and simply pushes updates back to the app. It would be most bandwidth-efficient way.

[pauamma]

100 requests in parallel is just about sure to get you flagged as a bot. See the
Rates & Limits section in http://www.livejournal.com/bots/.

[jdevelop]

never happened to any of my app :)