29 May 2004
The LiveJournal Backup Toolkit
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: Projects .
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Features:
- Export to Plain Text (the reason I created this really, so I can store all reformatted backups in GMail
- Export to CSV (A wee little different from LJ’s, as you’ll see!)
- Export to Movable Type
- Instructions on how you can export to WordPress , pMachine and Drupal
- Ability to set private entries as drafts when exporting to the above blog engines
- Ability to export only public or only private entries, or both
- Ability to export optional export items like music or moods of each entry
- Ability to strip HTML from exports
- Works with the XML Backups generated by LJ.
Requirements:
Download Options:
- You can download only the binary by clicking here (66 KB)
- You can download the binary including setup wrapper, which can be uninstalled through the Control Panel, by clicking here (335 KB)
- You can download the .NET 1.1/C# code by clicking here (444KB)
11 Comments so far...
Al Says:
30 May 2004 at 3:14 am.
Weird, when it starts, it only gives me a single button allowing me to choose, but not create, an xml or lj file for backup… Since I don’t have one and I can’t create one, that’s kind of useless.
Manish Jethani Says:
30 May 2004 at 3:23 am.
This actually has a GUI too? Wow! I’ll try it out once I decide to move to MT 3.0.
Mikhail Esteves Says:
30 May 2004 at 2:56 pm.
Al, you need to export using LiveJournal. See the How-To in the Help menu of the application. Once you have the XML file that LJ generates, you can use this application to export that into any supported format.
Ladi Says:
5 August 2004 at 9:25 pm.
RTFM apparently, sorry!
But for people who are reading this, but not the docs, make sure you leave ALL the fields checked when exporting from LJ.
Jim Says:
6 October 2004 at 7:24 pm.
Useful Link
Lurchy Says:
11 October 2004 at 7:28 am.
Is this software ONLY for Windows XP?
I’m using 98, and Microsoft Update
will not give me the option to install
.NET Framework 1.1.
I can’t start the software without
.NET Framework 1.1, but there’s NO HELP
FILES that I can look at without starting
the software… and nothing helpful on
the site that I see… so I’m going
to try something different. :P
Mikhail Says:
12 October 2004 at 7:18 pm.
Hmm… I wouldn’t know about that. I’ve only used it with XP. If the .NET Framework 1.1 can be installed on Windows 98, it would definitely work :)
And no, there are no help files. The utility is pretty straight forward.
Wing Says:
15 October 2004 at 2:11 pm.
awesome job… works like a charm
Mark Ryan Says:
4 April 2007 at 3:06 pm.
Cool, convenient… thanks