Archive posts

[rominf]

@daniilr, is there way to archive posts?

I guess, no, as I didn't find it on: http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ljp.csp.xml-rpc.protocol.html

That's sad. I found that http://ljcharm.livejournal.com/ is capable of doing this, but:

1. It's written in python2.
2. It has terrible codebase (IMHO, sorry Charm developers!). I mean: all the code is contained in one file & CLI is mixed with the logics.

What do you think?

[daniilr]

I guess, no, as I didn't find it on: http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ljp.csp.xml-rpc.protocol.html

This is a official XML RPC protocol of LiveJournal. Obviously it will never have archive function (if you mean "dump to disk" function). LJServer is a wrapper for this interface. BTW take a look at backup script at backup.py. I guess it should be rewritten with better option for serialization.

1. It's written in python2.

We don't support python 3 for now. But this a great suggestion.

[rominf]

@daniilr
I can port it to python3. Do you mind?
I would drop python2 support, because it's legacy and it's python2-python3 code is unidiomatic.

[daniilr]

Would be great. I am working to write unittests now

[daniilr]

@rominf check out #3

[markfortma]

I don't know where else to post this - so I am putting it here:

def datetime_from_string(s):
    """This assumes input in the form '2007-11-19 12:24:01' because that's all I care about"""
    if(s):
        date_s = s.split(' ')
        print(date_s)
        year_s, month_s, day_s = date_s[0].split('-')
        hour_s, min_s, sec_s = date_s[1].split(':')
        return datetime.datetime(int(year_s), int(month_s), int(day_s), int(hour_s), int(min_s), int(sec_s))
    # Fallback: Y2K
    return datetime.datetime(2000,1,1,0,0,0,0)

I encountered NoneType often and this corrected it.

Also, keywords all and id are Python keywords, switch them to all_ and id_ or select a new variable name; they were found in many of the functions in backup.py

[daniilr]

@markfortma
Changed it to:

return datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

I think strptime is the best approach here. Who needs manual parsing? :)