lj2news 0.2

[ewx]

I've just released lj2news 0.2. This fetches livejournal articles, formats them by calling lynx, and then posts them to a newsgroup. I use it to gateway this LJ to chiark.journals.

The new version is a single C program instead of a conspiracy of shell scripts, and instead of reading a config file takes its arguments on the command line. (In practice this means your config file is the script from which you invoke it.) It supports AUTHINFO GENERIC.

Another difference from the previous version is that no state directory is required any more. Instead it relies entirely on the receiving news server's own de-duplication measures. (There is scope for efficiency improvement in this area.)

I wouldn't call it “plug and play” quite yet, but it's getting there.

Comments

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Is there any way of following comments in the rss feed? Half the time it's the comments that people leave which make a post interesting :-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Nope, comments don't make it into RSS. If it's just your own journal though then you could use the email notifications.