Dreamwidth backup
May. 11th, 2025 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Because I am a hoarder, I would like to export my entire Dreamwidth journal, including comments.
Dreamwidth provides an export tool, but it only backs up the main entries, not the comments.
I was delighted to discover ljdump, which I downloaded from here (and which, despite the name, is supposed to work for dreamwidth as well as livejournal). But every time I try to run it, I give it my username and password and it replies:
File "C:\Users\wotw\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\xmlrpc\client.py", line 642, in close
raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpc.client.Fault: (Fault 101: 'Invalid password')
(I've changed the pointy brackets around "Fault 101: 'Invalid password'" to parentheses so that Dreamwidth doesn't interpret them as html brackets.)
I am sure that I am inputting a valid password, which I've tested by logging into and out of dreamwidth several times using the same password that I'm giving to ljdump.
So my questions are:
1) Is there another alternative?
2) Is there some known way to get around this problem with ljdump?
Update:Okay, this seems to do most of what I want --- except that it exports only to .pdf and .doc, and I'd really prefer .html .
Dreamwidth provides an export tool, but it only backs up the main entries, not the comments.
I was delighted to discover ljdump, which I downloaded from here (and which, despite the name, is supposed to work for dreamwidth as well as livejournal). But every time I try to run it, I give it my username and password and it replies:
File "C:\Users\wotw\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\xmlrpc\client.py", line 642, in close
raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpc.client.Fault: (Fault 101: 'Invalid password')
(I've changed the pointy brackets around "Fault 101: 'Invalid password'" to parentheses so that Dreamwidth doesn't interpret them as html brackets.)
I am sure that I am inputting a valid password, which I've tested by logging into and out of dreamwidth several times using the same password that I'm giving to ljdump.
So my questions are:
1) Is there another alternative?
2) Is there some known way to get around this problem with ljdump?
Update:Okay, this seems to do most of what I want --- except that it exports only to .pdf and .doc, and I'd really prefer .html .