livejournal-export

Forked from arty-name/livejournal-export, and heavily modified as a hobby project.

Here's what's downloaded:

• Your posts
• Your LJ friends comments to your posts
• Your LJ friends userpic

These are all placed in a folder named "exported_journals". From this you can create a static website of your LiveJournal entries using Pelican, a static website generator.

To run

Requires Python 3.6+ (hasn't been tested with anything else), and hasn't been tested on Windoww.

Create the Python virtualenvironment with this command:

python3 -m venv venv; . venv/bin/activate; pip install -r requirements.txt

ljconfig.py

Edit this file with your LiveJournal username and password. Also enter the dates you wish to download.

export.py

This script will do the exporting

• posts-html folder will contain basic HTML of posts and comments.
• posts-markdown will contain posts in Markdown format with HTML comments and metadata necessary to generate a static blog with Pelican.
• posts-json will contain posts with nested comments in JSON format should you want to process them further.