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Hello,
Sorry if my question is offtopic in this community, but it doesn't seem like your dev question thread is very active, so I'll take my chances and ask here. I'm trying to programmatically download DW posts from my journal and have troubles accessing friends-only and private posts. Suppose I have the following request:
GET https://ari-linn.dreamwidth.org/545896.html?format=light&expand_all=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: ari-linn.dreamwidth.org
It results in an error page: "You need to be logged in to see this content."
I thought about logging in programmatically to DW and grabbing cookies to pass with the request, but my attempts are getting me nowhere. I can successfully get challenge and compute response from this:
POST http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/flat HTTP/1.1
Host: www.dreamwidth.org
mode=getchallenge&ver=1
But I can't login using the challenge-response pair. The following request is invariably giving me an error page: "There was an error processing your request: This account name was not found." Why it can't recognize the user=ari_linn parameter is honestly beyond me.
POST https://www.dreamwidth.org/login?ret=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.dreamwidth.org
chal=c0:some:very:complicated:challenge:here&response=md5(challenge_plus_md5(password))&user=ari_linn
Is there any way I can programmatically login to DW to access private posts?
Sorry if my question is offtopic in this community, but it doesn't seem like your dev question thread is very active, so I'll take my chances and ask here. I'm trying to programmatically download DW posts from my journal and have troubles accessing friends-only and private posts. Suppose I have the following request:
GET https://ari-linn.dreamwidth.org/545896.html?format=light&expand_all=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: ari-linn.dreamwidth.org
It results in an error page: "You need to be logged in to see this content."
I thought about logging in programmatically to DW and grabbing cookies to pass with the request, but my attempts are getting me nowhere. I can successfully get challenge and compute response from this:
POST http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/flat HTTP/1.1
Host: www.dreamwidth.org
mode=getchallenge&ver=1
But I can't login using the challenge-response pair. The following request is invariably giving me an error page: "There was an error processing your request: This account name was not found." Why it can't recognize the user=ari_linn parameter is honestly beyond me.
POST https://www.dreamwidth.org/login?ret=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.dreamwidth.org
chal=c0:some:very:complicated:challenge:here&response=md5(challenge_plus_md5(password))&user=ari_linn
Is there any way I can programmatically login to DW to access private posts?
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Also, we've now got pretty effective ability to detect and delete imported duplicates. If you want me to do so, I can. (Too be clear, this is just the lower numbered ones without comments.)
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As for duplicate posts, I've killed them all myself. Thank you for addressing the issue though, hope it'll help you with the importer, and people won't get duplicates anymore (or at least support will have a tool to identify and remove them promptly).