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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_biz 2009-04-15 05:18 pm (UTC)

Importing memories is hard for two reasons:

* The existing memories code won't let you memory a post from another site;
* LJ doesn't provide any sort of machine-readable data feed for memories, so we'd have to screen-scrape to get that information, and screen-scraping leads to getting blocked Very Quickly.

If we can figure out a lightweight way of getting that data out of LJ, what we'll probably do is dump all the links in a categorized list and post that entry to your journal as a private entry tagged "imported memories" or whatever, but it's going to be hard to solve the screenscraping problem.

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