I ran ljdump-1.5.1 on a Mac under OS X using Terminal. Terminal tells me it all worked fine, and I eventually tracked down the directory with the files from the export.

But how do I actually view the files?

My profile page says I have 5584 journal entries posted and 26,095 comments received. I just ran ljdump and apparently it ran successfully. Does it create one file per journal entry and one file per comment? Because I only get 3570 files beginning with "L-" (presumably journal entries) and 4600 files beginning with "C-" (presumably comments).

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Hullo!

I made the mods calmingshoggoth suggested after ljdump barfed after entry 1000.  Then it processed all entries, but was unable to grab the comments;

Fetching journal entry L-1494 (update)
Fetching journal comments for: tcb
*** Error fetching comment body, possibly not community maintainer?
*** not well-formed (invalid token): line 111, column 15
Fetching ( Read more... )

hi.

i'm trying to dump ljournal of other user:
i specify user-name1 and password1 in the "ljdump.config",
but set journal=otheruser2.

when i run the ljdump.py, the error appears:

Fetching journal entries for: otheruser2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./ljdump.py", line 368, in ljdump(server, username, password, e.childNodes[0 ( Read more... )

The first problem was that LJ limits you to 1000 fetches per hour. I made the loop sleep for four seconds (60*60/1000 is 3.6, so I rounded up) between fetches and it doesn't seem to have that problem anymore ( Read more... )

how to cure it?

1000 record this error occurs.

Is it possible to connect a proxy?

I found bug.

In my post is text with +, but in xml created with your program, + is lost...

field

example, text of post is "+887878"

but in xml will be
887878

without + !!!

why?

i think, bug in xmlrpclib

because in this point in function "dumpelement"

s = unicode(str(e[k]), "UTF-8")e[k] is NUMBER! not string! number without + of cause ( Read more... )

Here it goes: http://pastebin.com/Q35EmMyY

It doesn't use this part because of some sort of byte/str serialization error happening I don't know a thing about:
f = codecs.open("%s/comment.meta" % Journal, "w", "UTF-8 ( Read more... )

Thanks for building this great tool. I've run it fine and seem to have downloaded everything. Now, how can I nicely view them?

I've flicked back through this forum and found a previous discussion of how non-l33t people like me might get a bit stuck, but there doesn't seem to be a nice answer there. Looks like I could import the whole thing to ( Read more... )

At least it did for me, just now. If you've had trouble recently, try it again today.