After getting PyBloxsom working on my local machine (XP with Apache) I went off in search of a way to download all my old LiveJournal entries locally. My long term plan is to migrate everything on my site to PyBloxsom and retire both LiveJournal and MT.
By chance,I found an interesting tool: Charm: A command line livejournal client written in Python which should allow me to archive old entries into a text files.
I have one minor problem with it right now. It expects "vi" to be in the path. Not a big deal for me as I have Vim in the path. In the end I made a copy of vi in my cygwin installation and named it vi.exe. From reading the code I could have set one or more environment variables to indicate which editor to use.
I had one more problem. On windows, the environment variable HOME is set to c:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME. The spaces in this path cause some UNIX tools to get confused so I made a wrapper batch file and set it to the safe 8+3 DOS style path which can be found by doing a DIR /X on the long pathname.
After that Charm worked as expected.
Posted by stuartcw at May 5, 2004 06:24 PM