LiveJournal export without entering your password?

[Alexander Konovalenko]

Hi,

The LiveJournal to Blogger converter (https://
livejournal2blogger.appspot.com) currently requires the users to enter
their LiveJournal password.

That's OK for people who trust the authors of the converter and want
to export some protected (friends-only) entries from their journals.
But is the password really required to export all public entries and
comments?

It would be nice if the converter allowed you to proceed just with
your LiveJournal user name. Alternative, if you want to ensure that
only owners can export their journals (but why?), you can authenticate
them using OpenID. Of course, in both cases only public information
will be exported.

-- Alexander

[JJ Lueck]

Hi Alexander.

The reason that the password is required for the LiveJournal
conversion tool is to protect the author of the original LiveJournal.
Even though an entire blog's posts and comments are made available
through LiveJournal, the actual process of exporting all of the data
should be protected by the administrator. It prevents the case where
an author's blog is used to duplicate the information elsewhere
without the original author's consent.

Offering OpenID as well as a username/password pair would be a great
addition to this tool. If you care to help out, I'll provide code
reviews for the work. I'll be doing another round of edits and bug
fixes in the coming days and I'll take a look at what would be
required to authenticate via OpenID during the export process.

[Alexander Konovalenko]

Hello JJ,

Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately I won't be able to help
with the implementation. I'll try to test the LiveJournal export tool
on my data once OpenID is available though and will report anything
interesting in the issue tracker.

By the way, I came across a broken link on the site. See
http://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/issues/detail?id=8.

Looking forward for more exciting news from the Data Liberation Front :-)

-- Alexander

[Rick]

Just a FYI, there is a Nucleus to LJ plugin that allows both password
or MD5 hash. She hasn't updated it in almost a year, but it still
works for me.

http://www.lykhin.com/nucleus-livejournal/

OpenID would rock for this, I wish I knew more about programming. Took
me 2 days to make my own Nucleus > Wordpress this week.

On Jan 13, 3:19 am, "Alexander Konovalenko" <alex...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello JJ,
>
> Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately I won't be able to help
> with the implementation. I'll try to test the LiveJournal export tool
> on my data once OpenID is available though and will report anything
> interesting in the issue tracker.
>

> By the way, I came across a broken link on the site. Seehttp://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/issues/deta....

[JJ Lueck]

I agree, OpenID would definitely be more suitable for any LiveJournal
export conversion. Hopefully there will be support for this from
within the LiveJournal XML-RPC library (I believe right now all
authentication is done through password challenges ... someone correct
me if I'm wrong here).

Nice job on a Nucleus2Wordpress conversion! I'm sure that other
Nucleus users may be interested in doing that type of conversion.

Cheers,
-JJ.