LiveJournal Development

"Invalid password" when calling login method over XML-RPC

gregstoll — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:09:23 GMT

A week or two ago my LJBackup client started being unable to login - I didn't change anything (I think!), but now I always get an "Invalid password" response.

I'm using the XMLRPC method with the challenge-response scheme.

Anyone else seeing something similar?

Thanks!

cl-journal livejournal client

can3p — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:27:09 GMT

Hey everyone,

I'd like to present a livejournal client that I wrote to fulfill my needs but maybe there are other people that can find it useful.

The general idea is that the best way to write text is to to it in a favorite text editor in a plain text file, since you can easily save it, back it up or keep it as a draft without any fear that it gets lost. In addition it's much easier to search through text files than to do it by going through blog pages or using livejournal blog search.

cl-journal provides this oportunity. All posts are just markdown files that you write and later publish with one command. Client not only publishes new posts but also handles post modifications and deletes.

At the moment client only pushes data to the server and won't know if post was modified via web interface, so it's better to use it to publish posts and do all modifications. The good part is that you can manage only selected posts with the client and publish others by usual means.

For a full feature set please have a look on a home page, for release announcements please feel free to join cl_journal_cli community.

Some of the next features I'm planning to work on is a pull from the server, so that it's possible to get all blog history as text files and post templates so that it's easier to handle layout changes and things like table of contents.

At the moment only Mac OS X is supported, although other operating systems should be more or less trivial to support.

Thanks for your attention!

SessionGenerate and ljloggedin

lord_baskervil — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:26:51 GMT

Are there any information after release 86 and changes in cookies scheme to use sessiongenerate?
It returns ljsession key, but this key is not enough for calling getfriendspage method, for example, but is enough for login method.

Retrieving comments

oboguev — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:45:24 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to retrieve a list of comments made by user XXX (which may or may be not the currently logged in user) in the journals of users other than XXX?

Error: 399 . "Data corrupted"

lord_baskervil — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:12:18 GMT

Hi all. Some times ago I began to get new error from lj-server: error-code: 399 with message: Data corrupted.

Almost all time I get this error after requesting new challenge via getchallenge request. I can get 10 or 20 error one my one, or I can doesn't get error some requests in a row.

Do you have any ideas wtf?

Community posts and comments

javax_slr — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:40:21 GMT

Hi!
How can I download a community posts with comments when
1) I'm the community moderator
2) I'm not the community moderator

?

Thank you

LiveJournal Source Code Archive

mart — Mon, 04 May 2015 00:50:59 GMT

The official LiveJournal source repository at code.livejournal.org has been closed to those who don't work for LiveJournal since early 2014.

As a way of preserving (part of) the history of LiveJournal for posterity, I've created an archive repository, converted from Subversion to git so it's more usable with modern tools, that reflects every change from the LJ Subversion repository up to the end of March 2014.

After a considerable amount of history spelunking (with the help of burr86) I've been able to preserve the authorship information for many of the committers during the coversion to git, where possible using current email addresses to allow the commits to be attributed to each person's current github account.

I doubt anyone wants to run this code anymore (for that, the Dreamwidth code fork is probably an easier starting point) but I personally think LiveJournal made a significant contribution to the disciplines of collaborative development, scalable web application deployment and the social web, and thus I think its history (of which this codebase is a significant part) is worth preserving.

I hope someone finds this useful or interesting someday.

ЖЖ на телефоне обновился и сдох(

lumixograf — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:38:47 GMT

Смотрю - а телефон вдруг решил обновления качнуть! С Андроидом 2.3 - обновления надо выключать, но я освобождал место в памяти и снёс параметры Google Play... И в благодарность, почуяв исчезновение запрета на обновление, телефон стал качать новые версии софтин...

Так и пала ЖЖчка 0.4.1 на моём телефоне, заменившись на 1.0, которая запускается, сообщает о том, что не работает на андроиде версиями ниже 4, и всё - ничего с ним не сделать.

Как быть? Несмотря на возраст телефона (3.5 года) до рутовских прав у меня руки не дошли...
Искать по сайтикам с софтом древнюю версию?

Client error: No mode specified - I faced this error in flat API

ezhik_israely — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:26:44 GMT

I found a lot of posts about this problem at 2010 year.
What about it now?

request was http://www.livejournal.com/interface/flat?mode=login&auth_method=clear&user={ezhik_israely&password=klhjlkjkj

Thanks!
Julia

UserPic

green_2005 — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:46:59 GMT

Hi!
How can I get a userPic if I know username?

AddComment method

lord_baskervil — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:36:16 GMT

Hi. This method works only for my posts, but I can't add comment to non-my posts. Each attempt returns this error:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<fault>

<value>

<name>faultString</name>

<value>

<string>Client error: Not allowed to create comment</string>

</value>

</member>

<name>faultCode</name>

<value>

</value>

</member>

</struct>

</value>

</fault>

</methodResponse>

I see this version of source code (http://repo.or.cz/w/livejournal.git/blob/HEAD:/cgi-bin/ljprotocol.pl#l560) I see that this error code returns if LJ::Comment->create failed but I don't understand why does it fail?
For my posts I can add comments without problem.

Fetching images via API

green_2005 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:52:19 GMT

Hi!
Are there any methods to get image content that are marked as "Only for Friends" ?
I'm writing Android app and I try to use HttpGet. I add FB Headers like that:

Host: pics.livejournal.com
X-FB-User: bob
X-FB-Auth: crp:0123456789abcdef:0123456789abcdef
But in response I get Html page with access denied message.

RPC request for polling

be_progressive — Tue, 27 May 2014 11:49:05 GMT

Hey there!
I try to send request to Lj rpc-xml server for polling, but it return an error 203 - "Invalid argument(s): answers [203]".

Poll has ID 1968584 and chosen answer is 2.

The data that I send:

requestHash = new HashMap<String, Object>();

requestHash.put("pollid", "1968584");

requestHash.put("answers", "2");

client.call("LJ.XMLRPC.votepoll", requestHash);

In ljprotocol.pl I found following code:

# check answers parameter

my $answers = $req->{answers};

return fail($err, 200, 'answers') unless($answers);

return fail($err, 203, 'answers') unless(ref $answers eq 'HASH');

But I can't understand, what means 'HASH' :(
Please, help me to find out, what am I doing wrong.

Web source code frontend broken?

rahaeli — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:21:37 GMT

When trying to look up the change history of a particular bit of the LJ source just now, I noticed that the web frontend for the LJ source is returning blank. Is this change deliberate, or just a temporary glitch?

is_show, is_loaded in getcomments

alsterellie — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 19:38:29 GMT

Hi, has someone figured out what the parameters "is_show" and "is_loaded" mean exactly? They are returned by the getcomments function. I've played around a bit and I can see that the are both generally set to 1, but they will be both set to 0, if the comment was deleted. Do situations such as this ever occur?

is_show = 0
is_loaded = 1

OR

is_show = 1
is_loaded = 0

LJ Picture Uploader

thornik — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:15:29 GMT

Hello, guys!
Lately I made a program to upload pictures on LJ server (Page on SoftPedia). It's quite simple at look and same simple in use, so hope people will enjoy it.
If you have any ideas how to improve it, welcome!

Program is written on C#/.NET 4.5, uses PhotoBilder API.

function- lj-like

danilovmy — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:50:26 GMT

In the journal community lj-photophile.livejournal.com is such a function- lj-like, when users can mark their favorite articles.
(The figures below each article like "+1 (45)")

how i kann included this property?

If nobody don't know, please somebody tell me, who can I ask?

when I asked this livejournal service, they heard from me about this property for the first time.

Thank´s a lot,

FotoBilder

lord_baskervil — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:05:34 GMT

Is it possible to link image (GetPics) and gallery (GetGals)? I want to see in desktop client all content of my scrapbook and show pictures in albums.

No more private photo uploads?

metageek — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:36:25 GMT

(I asked this in the support forum, too, but I'm not getting any response; maybe this community is a better place to find the people who know.)

I maintain a photo uploader for Android which uses the Fotobilder API. Yesterday I noticed that private uploads, using the PicSec: 0 setting, were not working: they get an error message:

<Error code='211'>Invalid argument: PicSec</Error>

When I switch to public (PicSec: 255) or friends-locked (PicSec: 254), the client works correctly. And I know PicSec: 0 was working no more than three weeks ago.

Does anybody know whether private uploads have been deliberately blocked in the Fotobilder API for some reason, or is it just a bug?

(On further experimentation, I find that GalSec: 0 is also being refused, which makes me think it's more likely to be deliberate...)

Download current blog style

lord_baskervil — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:56:44 GMT

Hi.
How I can download my current blog style?
I create desktop application for lj and I want to do a preview in blog style.
Thx.

Downloading LiveJournal to an e-reader format.

knaw — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:00:54 GMT

Is there a way to download LiveJournal directly into EPub or Kindle format?

I find it more comfortable to read an e-ink screen but the Kobo's built-in browser is fiddly.

Friends entries

smamit — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:07:30 GMT

Hi, All

I need to get friends list in my app. I am going to run over html content and scrap needed data.
Do we have some way to specify in which style We get friends list ( Something like this http://zuma.livejournal.com/friends?style=Everwhite&skip=10 or http://vodex.livejournal.com/friends/?s2id=StyleId&auth=digest ).
How can i know what is the ID of certain style ?

Thanks.

All apis supported by LJ

lord_baskervil — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:52:56 GMT

Hi, developers. I try to find all type of api supported by LJ or it's services.
Today I have only 2: XML-RPC API and FotoBuilder API.
May be there are more apis?

More XFN support in profiles

lindner — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:03:20 GMT

Hi -- here's a patch that adds proper rel="me" for the yahoo and last.fm portions of the profile. I'd like to also add the same to the twitter/facebook/other links from

my $instant_message_xtra = LJ::run_hook('userinfo_instant_message_extra', user => $u, remote => $remote, mangleaddress => $mangleaddress );

If anyone can point me at the source for that I can also patch that.

Thanks!

Paul

===================================================================

--- htdocs/userinfo.bml (revision 22866)

+++ htdocs/userinfo.bml (working copy)

@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@

my $yim = LJ::ehtml($u->{'yahoo'});

my $yim_alt = $ML{'.im.yim'};

my $yimstatus_alt = $ML{'.im.yim.status'};

- $instant_message .= "<tr class='im_yahoo'><td class='im_icon'><img src='$LJ::IMGPREFIX/profile_icons/yahoo.gif?v=14273' alt=\"$yim_alt\" title=\"$yim_alt\" /></td><td><a href='http://profiles.yahoo.com/$yim'>$yim</a></td><td class='im_status'><img alt=\"$yimstatus_alt\" title=\"$yimstatus_alt\" src='http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=$yim&m=g&t=0' width='12' height='12' /></td></tr>\n";

+ $instant_message .= "<tr class='im_yahoo'><td class='im_icon'><img src='$LJ::IMGPREFIX/profile_icons/yahoo.gif?v=14273' alt=\"$yim_alt\" title=\"$yim_alt\" /></td><td><a rel-'me' href='http://profiles.yahoo.com/$yim'>$yim</a></td><td class='im_status'><img alt=\"$yimstatus_alt\" title=\"$yimstatus_alt\" src='http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=$yim&m=g&t=0' width='12' height='12' /></td></tr>\n";

}

if ($u->{'msn'}) {

my $msnname = $mangleaddress->(LJ::ehtml($u->{'msn'}));

@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@

my $url_escaped_last_fm_user = LJ::eurl($u->{'last_fm_user'});

$lastfm_url =~ s/%username%/$url_escaped_last_fm_user/g;

- my $lastfm = "<a href='$lastfm_url'>" . LJ::ehtml($u->{'last_fm_user'}) . "</a>";

+ my $lastfm = "<a rel='me' href='$lastfm_url'>" . LJ::ehtml($u->{'last_fm_user'}) . "</a>";

my $lastfm_alt = $ML{'.im.lastfm'};

$instant_message .= "<tr class='im_lastfm'><td class='im_icon'><img src='$LJ::IMGPREFIX/profile_icons/lastfm.gif?v=14402' alt=\"$lastfm_alt\" title=\"$lastfm_alt\" /></td><td colspan='2'>$lastfm</td></tr>\n";

}

LiveJournal Development

"Invalid password" when calling login method over XML-RPC

cl-journal livejournal client

SessionGenerate and ljloggedin

Retrieving comments

Error: 399 . "Data corrupted"

Community posts and comments

LiveJournal Source Code Archive

ЖЖ на телефоне обновился и сдох(

Client error: No mode specified - I faced this error in flat API

UserPic

AddComment method

Fetching images via API

RPC request for polling

Web source code frontend broken?

is_show, is_loaded in getcomments

LJ Picture Uploader

function- lj-like

FotoBilder

No more private photo uploads?

Download current blog style

recent comments - the way of making yours BLOG better!

Downloading LiveJournal to an e-reader format.

Friends entries

All apis supported by LJ

More XFN support in profiles