When I was trying to backup INL, which is on GJ, not LJ, but they use the same code base, I explored a lot of options.
There is a simple download entries function LJ itself has, if I remember correctly. I believe it CAN actually capture comments, but nothing captures user icons.
You can get a third party program which can even log in for you and capture everything, but it doesn't get icons.
You can use a web-spidering program to mirror a browseable copy complete with user icons, but, it runs into trouble when you hit comments threads, because each comment has a thread link, and that generates another full copy of the page. And if you tell it to not exclude thread type links, you won't get the expansion for any threads which were too big for LJ to show fully off the bat.
I can imagine that on some threads the full view could be rather hard on servers, /but/ they could keep it treed, and still cap comments displayed on a page to say, 50. Whether they're expanded or not.
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Date: 2006-06-17 05:36 pm (UTC)There is a simple download entries function LJ itself has, if I remember correctly. I believe it CAN actually capture comments, but nothing captures user icons.
You can get a third party program which can even log in for you and capture everything, but it doesn't get icons.
You can use a web-spidering program to mirror a browseable copy complete with user icons, but, it runs into trouble when you hit comments threads, because each comment has a thread link, and that generates another full copy of the page. And if you tell it to not exclude thread type links, you won't get the expansion for any threads which were too big for LJ to show fully off the bat.
I can imagine that on some threads the full view could be rather hard on servers, /but/ they could keep it treed, and still cap comments displayed on a page to say, 50. Whether they're expanded or not.
Yeah. So.