How to back up your LJ with Xjournal or ljdump if you’re using Mac OS X

A friend asked me how to backup her LJ using ljdump. Here’s what I sent her:

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Wanna buy LJ?

kenshi has started a community to discuss converting LJ to a user-owned non-profit.

Some LJ backup tools

Some LJ backup tools.

ljdump – Python script, cross-platform. This is what I use.

ljArchive – Windows client. Probably what you want to use if you’re on windows.

Deepest Sender – Firefox extension for Firefox. Will sync all of your LJ entries to a local database. It won’t backup the profile data, icons, images or other goodies.

LogJam – GTK client, also available as an Ubuntu package. Go to “Journal -> Synchronize Offline Copy” to back up an entire journal.

LJ Book – Turns your site into a PDF.

ljsim – Perl command line tool. Saves posts, memories, graphics. Converts relative links to absolute. Creates contents page, supports http proxy.

ljmigrate – Python command line tool to migrate to other LJ-based sites (GreatesJournal, DeadJournal, etc.)

LJ cans 12 of 28 employees

[Edit: number of employees fired has been downgraded from 20 to 12.]

Awww, this sucks. Better back up your livejournal:

LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 12 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we’re told.

It’s a good idea anyway (if you care about your data), but this event makes it particularly important.

Some LJ backup tools:

ljdump – Python script, cross-platform. This is what I use.

ljArchive – Windows client. Probably what you want to use if you’re on windows.

Deepest Sender – Firefox extension for Firefox. Will sync all of your LJ entries to a local database. It won’t backup the profile data, icons, images or other goodies.

LogJam – GTK client, also available as an Ubuntu package. Go to “Journal -> Synchronize Offline Copy” to back up an entire journal.

LJ Book – Turns your site into a PDF.

ljsim – Perl command line tool. Saves posts, memories, graphics. Converts relative links to absolute. Creates contents page, supports http proxy.

ljmigrate – Python command line tool to migrate to other LJ-based sites (GreatesJournal, DeadJournal, etc.)

LJ Genie: friend’s list search?

Does anyone know of a way to search one’s friend’s list? For example, is there a way to find all the people on my friend’s list who live within 100 miles of Raleigh, NC?