• Katherine Fisher
    This seems to be working on my public journal (it's crawling now). I also have a private journal and I could not get it to work. I assume I somehow have to be "allowed in". Any suggestions???

    Thank you -
  • Joe
    Katherine,

    Private Journals require the use of passing a secure cookie. This is possible, but makes it a bit more difficult.

    Briefly, you would clear your cache and cookies, then login with your Web browser, then find that cookie and use that same coookie (aka, Session), and crawl it and use the authenticated cookie to crawl a private journal.

    Use the following commands in your Wget command:

    --cookies=on --load-cookies=cookie.txt --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies=cookie.txt


    You'd copy over the data of the authenticated AOL cookie into the a cookie.txt file in the Wget bin folder and do that.

    ~Joe
  • Katherine Fisher
    Just an update....it crawled FOREVER. When I finally stopped it, it was not in any way clear how the files were organized. Very frustrating. But, I have to keep trying....

    thanks!
  • Joe,

    I thought I'd give you a heads-up - AOL Journals users can now import their journals to the Blogger platform.

    How-to is here:

    http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=11...


    I wrote a short update on my blog here:

    http://anti-aol.livejournal.com/98350.html

    Perhaps you want to update your blog to keep J-Land users who stop by up-to-date on what's going on.
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