livejournal-archive-helper

Description

The script is designed to help archive articles from the livejournal site. It parses all articles of a specified user, then automatically opens them in a browser and saves them in PDF format.

Features:

• Downloading articles by any user;
• Moving comments to a single page and automatically expand them (script.js);
• Clear downloading without ads and banners;
• Potencial ability to download hidden articles (for friends only) (available only after logging in to your account) (theoretically, not tested);

Requirements

• OS: windows, linux (mac not supported sorry);
• Ruby (3.1.4);

Install

• Install ruby (3.1.4):

  • (For Windows) you can use RubyInstaller;
  • For rvm:

   rvm install ruby-3.1.4
  

  • For rbenv:

   rbenv install 3.1.4
  

• Download repository:

git clone https://github.com/Whiletruedoend/livejournal-archive-helper

cd ./livejournal-archive-helper

• Run bundler:

  bundle

There are two ways to proceed with the installation:

Automatic (recommended)

• Run intall script:

  ruby install.rb

Manual

1. Download Chrome For Testing (chrome) and Chromedriver from link: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/
2. Extract chrome archive to: ./livejournal-archive-helper/_browsers (The folder will contain the chrome (ex. chrome-win64) folder)
3. From chromedriver archive extact chromedriver file to: ./livejournal-archive-helper/_browsers (The folder will contain the chromedriver (ex. chromedriver.exe) file)
4. Extract the contents of file ./livejournal-archive-helper/_browsers/_ext/_settings.zip to: ./livejournal-archive-helper/_browsers

Run

• Now you can run main script:

  ruby main.rb

Advanced Chrome profile customize

If you need to customize your browser (install/change extensions or log in to your account), you need to do the following:

Automatic way (recommended)

• Run debug script:

    ruby browser-debug.rb
  

Manual way

• Go to chrome browser folder;

  • (For windows): Create shortcut .lnk and add:

    --user-data-dir="path\to\_browsers\_ChromeData"
    

    , where you need to change the path to your path where the _ChromeData folder is located.

  • (For linux): just run chrome with this param;

• Now you can run chrome and make your changes;

Contribution

1. Fork tis project;
2. Make changes to the forked project;
3. On the page of this repository, poke Pull Requests and make a Pull Request by selecting your fork in the right list;

Contact

If you have any ideas or your own developments, or just questions about the performance of the code, then you can always contact me at the following addresses:

• Matrix