Backing up MANY journals?

January 6, 2009 10:18 AM

With Livejournal possibly aiming itself for a demise sometime in the future, I have a techie question that I'm hoping metafilter can answer and save me countless hours of google time.

I and several (and by several I mean -45-) friends have a LJ RPG, with five years of history that we do not want to lose. We're very aware there are backup tools, but what I'm looking for is a way to backup communities and journals and their comments -without needing the passwords-, preferable in a mass group. None of the posts are locked, so that's not a concern. (I repeat - we do not want to archive locked posts, no privacy will be violated.)

Is there any such tool? ALL of the programs I have found so far require a password, and given the forgetful nature of people, we'd rather just have a small team on this, since it's 70 journals.

posted by FritoKAL to computers & internet (3 comments total)

I don't know of a readymade tool, but as long as they're public posts you could use wget or any other web spidering utility. It should be just a few lines of a script with a text file of URLs. MeFiMail me if you'd like more help, if someone doesn't just post a script in here. :)
posted by rhizome at 11:31 AM on January 6

Do you just want to back these up to display somewhere? LJSM can do this.
posted by mkb at 11:36 AM on January 6

mkb - Thank you, thank you, thank you. That is EXACTLY what I wanted.
posted by FritoKAL at 12:18 PM on January 6