Comments | lj_nifty: LJFriends Reader for Yahoo Widget Engine

chewie_007 in lj_nifty

LJFriends Reader for Yahoo Widget Engine

Sep 12, 2006 19:52

Update #2Sometime near this last weekend, LiveJournal changed the format of their Mobile version of the friends page -- which I based the parsing for this wonderful widget on -- as a result you may have been experiencing a bit of strangeness... particularly when it comes to the label defining who made the post. Well, that problem has been fixed ( Read more... )

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prince July 19 2006, 09:31:58 UTC

semagic also works for this... though i believe you have to have a paid account for it to work.

http://semagic.sourceforge.net/

geekosaur July 19 2006, 10:03:41 UTC

It's supposed to work, in theory LJ doesn't send notifications when only comments change... but in practice it does seem to do so. This is not a client-specific issue.

chewie_007 July 19 2006, 12:42:32 UTC

what he said :D

wyntermoonwolf July 19 2006, 09:45:51 UTC

Someone commented that you should make it work for Deadjournal. A preference where you can select or enter a URL for a site running LJ's codebase should make it work for all the clones.

Yahoo Widgets, windows programming in Javascript. Loving it myself.

chewie_007 July 19 2006, 12:54:54 UTC

I can look into this, but it seems that Deadjournal uses different URL formatting for their communities (at a quick glance) and so it would not be as simple as entering a URL.

Thanks for the suggestion.

aellia July 19 2006, 09:45:55 UTC

That looks handy,I downloaded it bit for some reason I couldn't open the file.

lookbehindyou July 19 2006, 11:04:53 UTC

Do you have Yahoo! Widgets already? Go here.

lookbehindyou July 19 2006, 11:04:14 UTC

I think I love you. Semagic is such a pain in the butt with it always telling me there are updates on my fpage when there really aren't any save for new comments.

Thanks so much for this. :-)

pegkerr July 19 2006, 11:47:00 UTC

I have downloaded it, and I like it! V. cool. Well done.

Is there a way to set it to monitor one of your filters for your friends pages other than the default?

chewie_007 July 19 2006, 12:45:53 UTC

unfortunately, no. To hack around the lack of an RSS feeds page for the friends page, I use the mobile LJ section, which is very concise and consistant across all users. Unfortunately it also does not have filtering options.

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chewie_007 July 20 2006, 19:50:47 UTC

that was my first thought on the subject when I realized that there was not an RSS feed for the friends page. But I thought it would be slow (and quite harmful to livejounral.com's bandwidth) to query every friend, since I have some friends who have over 200 friends. That's a lot of page requests.