RSS Feed for any LiveJournal
Thanks to an entry on the Liferea FAQ, I now know how to get an RSS feed for any LiveJournal. All it takes is a little URL magic.
Enter the following URL into your feed reader, replacing [username] with the correct username for your friend with the LJ:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/[username]/data/rss
Voila! By way of example, here are feeds for a couple of my friends’ LJ blogs:
- Jen’s Beads, Books, and Politics
- Mickey’s Insanity Central
Okay guys, now I can honestly promise to do a better job of staying up to date on your weblogs. 
Update: Gregory Blake shows how get access to friend-locked LJ posts through your feed reader.
that led me to http://forever.p3k.org/rss/ from which I plagiarised some code to revamp my own homepage, http://stevehemingway.com. The RSS feed is automatically produced by LJ: I discovered this from Adam Messinger’s page which mentions this . Adam has produced a good collection of articles about this kind of stuff here. I hope that Mambo will soon be turning out an RSS feed for Fra’s phlogiston science magazine project.
Pingback by Diary of a Grumpy Old Nerd — February 27, 2005 @ 2:41 pm
Incidentally, LJ now has it set up so that to get an RSS feed of a journal, you type in http://username.livejournal.com/data/rss (where username is the username of who’s LJ you want to get an RSS feed of)
Comment by Jeffrey MacHott — February 4, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
Thanks for the update, Jeffrey.
Comment by Adam Messinger — February 4, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
This feature is not always working with unicode-based languages, that’s why I use LI’s agreggator.
Comment by punk — February 19, 2007 @ 4:45 am