I'm going to stop crossposting to LiveJournal.

[snarp]

Due to aggregate aggravation building over the course of a number of years, rather than any specific reason or incident. I'm still going to read my Flist over there, given that DW doesn't support reading secure RSS, so I'd miss some access-locked posts if I just turned everyone I read over there into a feed.

I'm sure the answer to this is going to be "no", but: Does there exist some kind of script that would go through my LiveJournal entries, match them up to my Dreamwidth ones, and just replace the text of the LiveJournal post with a link to the DW one?

I don't really want to leave my content up over there, but I'd feel like I was contributing to the entropy of the universe, in the form of linkrot, if I just deleted everything. I don't want to give QB any more rationalization for its behavior.

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[niqaeli]

To my knowledge? No, there's not.

Personally, I did a backup to a separate dreamwidth account, unlocked the fic on the dreamwidth, and then went through and manually deleted everything except my fic entries on LJ and replaced the text with a link to the DW edition. It, uh, took months because dear god it was mind-numbing.

A script to do that would be really awesome and probably wouldn't be that hideous to write, although it might be hideous to look at and/or use, but I'm not much of a programmer so I cannot write it for you. :/

[snarp]

Yeah, I went through and did a few by hand after making this post, but I do not possess the time, patience, or carpus health necessary to do them all.

I am a crappy programmer with no knowledge of HTTP, so I can't write the script either.

[kaigou]

I started to do the same when I switched to DW, got bored out of my wits, then tried to write an xml to do it. Never did manage, but then, I don't know xml very well, and the LJ api just wouldn't behave. Which is to say, it was well above my grade at that point. But it's still on my mental todo list, right after the other bazillion apps I want/need to do...