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cs_hackerary2017-01-01 11:54 pm
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How to use wget to fetch locked things on LJ and DW
h/t to antennapedia on LJ, "Making a local archive with wget"
You can use wget (if you have wget) to fetch pages off LJ and DW that you can only access logged in by this handy method:
1) Install the "Export Cookies" add-in to FireFox (presumably there are ways to pull this off with other browsers, but this is what I did.)
2) Log in to LJ or DW as appropriate.
3) Run "Export Cookies" and put the resultant cookie file somewhere you can find it.
4) Call wget like so:
On DW, the "X-LJ-Auth" header field name still works, as does "X-DW-Auth".
antennapedia on LJ, "Making a local archive with wget"You can use wget (if you have wget) to fetch pages off LJ and DW that you can only access logged in by this handy method:
1) Install the "Export Cookies" add-in to FireFox (presumably there are ways to pull this off with other browsers, but this is what I did.)
2) Log in to LJ or DW as appropriate.
3) Run "Export Cookies" and put the resultant cookie file somewhere you can find it.
4) Call wget like so:
wget --cookies=on --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies /path/to/newcookie.txt --load-cookies /path/to/ff_exported_cookes.txt --header "X-LJ-Auth: cookie" http://www.livejournal.comsubstituting whatever url you want for "http://www.livejournal.com".
On DW, the "X-LJ-Auth" header field name still works, as does "X-DW-Auth".