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dancerjodi ([personal profile] dancerjodi) wrote2009-12-30 10:43 am

LJ friends in RSS feeds

Does anyone have a good way to put my LJ friends list into my RSS reader? I know that LJ doesn't have an internal tool to do this - any suggestions? Thanks in advance. :)

EDIT: I found a way to do this, but not with locked posts. Perhaps google reader doesn't support cookies?

Here's what I did: http://community.livejournal.com/howto/40882.html

[identity profile] sajuka.livejournal.com 2009-12-30 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
AFAIK LJ doesn't support RSS for your friends list, but you can fetch each person's RSS feed.

The unlocked posts are available at:

http://dancer.livejournal.com/data/rss

Replace "dancer" with each username. For locked posts you have to have an RSS reader that understands the HTTP Auth protocol, at which point you use:

http://dancer.livejournal.com/data/rss?auth=digest

Your reader will prompt you for a username and password. Enter your LJ username and password and you should see locked posts. I managed to get this to work with Thunderbird and ... I forget the other dedicated RSS reader I was using (Owl maybe?). But at the time I couldn't get Google Reader to work (this was a while ago, and Google has progressed a lot).

Good luck!