Trying the importer

[redbird]

I'm importing a bunch of stuff from LJ to Dreamwidth; if I have this set as I think I do, it will be grabbing almost everything, but only one icon (I have lots on LJ, and room for six on DW), and not the userinfo. (All these are options.)

I still probably won't crosspost everything, if only out of laziness and the ways that this client works. Is anyone actively working on posting clients for Dreamwidth, or updating the existing ones to crosspost better?

Comments

[eftychia]

How do you feel about command-line tools? I've got a clumsy shell script that I keep meaning to get around to perfecting and polishing, that invokes (a slightly modified version of) the Clive client to do the posting. It takes a text file (HTML now but I can make that a switch) as input for the entry body[*], and any other data (e.g. subject, icon, community) as command-line arguments. If that sounds like something you'd use, let's start talking about what features you'd want and I'll see whether I know how to implement 'em.

If you're specifically looking for a GUI client/crossposter, I won't take it as an affront, but I also regrettably won't have much clue. (A long, long time ago, I saw Clive listed at the very bottom of the LJ stats page with something like four users. The last few times I've looked at stats pages for any of the *J sites that publish them, Clive didn't even make the list despite my posting at least once each day with it to each site. So I get the impression that most people don't want to use a command-line client.)

[*] Clive will invoke the editor of your choice with an empty buffer if you don't give it an input-redirect, but making my auto-crossposting script, which calls Clive multiple times, do that, will require a little front-end coding that I haven't needed to do for myself and thus haven't gotten around to.