[scattered]

Does anyone know a program that will batch export the contents of the LiveJournal to disk? The internal exporter offered on LJ.com only allows you to do it month by month, which would be a big pain.

[mduell]

A friend of mine wrote one called ljdump.

[scattered]

Thanks! That worked. These files are in XML format, right? It's not immediately clear.

[sushiism]

I get the error "No such file or directory: 'ljdump.config'" I did make a copy of the config file and removed the sample bit so that file should exist. Is there a special command I should be typing or should "python ljdump.py" be enough or is there a special directory I should be doing this from?

[Apfhex]

I use xJournal and it can export the entire contents of your LJ into, well, a .plist (XML) file, which may or may not be useful to you. But the app has a good History viewer to look at the file with.

[scattered]

Originally Posted by sushiism

I get the error "No such file or directory: 'ljdump.config'" I did make a copy of the config file and removed the sample bit so that file should exist. Is there a special command I should be typing or should "python ljdump.py" be enough or is there a special directory I should be doing this from?

Run it from within the directory ljdump is stored in. Use cd to navigate there.

[sushiism]

Originally Posted by scattered

Run it from within the directory ljdump is stored in. Use cd to navigate there.

I did

[Freeflyer]

you might want to check out

http://www.ljbook.com/

which exports your LJ to a pdf format book.

[Apfhex]

Hey, LJBook is pretty cool!