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Old 03-17-2015, 04:48 AM   #3840
mcb123
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Livejournal & FFDL

Hi all,

I was hoping Jim would be so kind as to add livejournal.com (LJ) to the supported sites. What I want to do is this:
1) Capture story URLs from a particular LJ page (similar to A03 series capture)
2) Make the links on each subsequent page below (and on down to the ends) chapters within the originally captured story
3) Have the option to anthologize or not using epub merge and still get updates.

The other "solutions" I've found and the problems with them are as follows:

1) Fetch News
a) The existing LJ RSS feed is too complex, and includes all works by the user, not just from a specific page on down.
b) Creating a new RSS feed using 3rd-party software includes all tag associated works from the side bars, not the main frame of the page only
c) I am a novice programmer at best and simply do not understand enough python (willing to learn but it is slow) to adequately write an advanced custom recipe.
d) In order to keep the fics long-term, I'd have to disable the auto-delete function for all of my custom news sources, and that is a huge repetitive time suck step backwards

2) Grab My Books Firefox Plugin did not show the reported "Grab Links" option, which had it been there, might have solved my problem.

Thanks!
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