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[derien]

I barely have to look at my email anymore - the only things interesting are in my LJ comments folder. 

It would probably be a horribly daunting task to go back and edit in all comments people have made on my LJ posts to be part of the posts to that they'll archive when I run the archiver.  Hm, three years of LJ?  Killer project. 

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[dances-withcats.livejournal.com]

http://fawx.com/ljArchive

This is a really cool LJ archiver program. It's free, and it downloads comments and all. I used it recently and it's somoe wicked easy!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Eor actually made an archiver. But how can that one download comments? They don't belong to 'you', having been posted by someone else.

[dances-withcats.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure exactly how it does it, code-wise, but I know that when I downloaded my journal, I selected an option to download the comments too, and it did. It basically downloads anything in your journal that you want it to.

[beowabbit]

I have a shell script I run that downloads my journal entries with comments. (It basically just saves the HTML of the page.) If you have a Unix machine somewhere with both "wget" and "lynx" available to run it on, you could probably make it work. Let me know if you're interested in seeing it.

(The only tricky thing is getting authentication working so you can see private/friends-only entries. The way I do it is I have it look at my Firefox browser cookies, so if I'm "permanently" logged in in Firefox when I run the script, everything works. If the machine I was running the script on were different from the machine I ran my web browser on, I'd need to deal with transferring the cookie file by hand.)