Blagg LiveJournal Plugin

From Fraser Speirs Wiki

Rael Dornfest wrote some nice blogging and RDF/RSS tools in perl. My personal favourite was blagg, because I'm interested in what you can do with syndication.

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Blagg supports plugins, and because I'm majorly into LiveJournal, I wanted to somehow integrate RDF/RSS feeds into my journaling. LiveJournal offers a 'friends' page - an aggregated page of entries made by other LiveJournal users that you define as 'friends' on the site.

So, I wrote a blagg plugin that takes a series of RDF feeds and posts to a LiveJournal account the stories that have appeared in the channels since it was last run. I run it hourly in cron.

So you can download the plugin here (v1.1 - 17/9/02)]. Instructions for use are included in the file. It also requires that you have the LJ::Simple perl module installed.

An easier way? Note that LiveJournal.com also supports syndicating RSS feeds to a LiveJournal account, which might make certain uses of this plugin somewhat redundant.