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LJ.XMLRPC.getdaycounts

Posted by Byrne Reese on March 3, 2006

This mode retrieves the number of journal entries per day. Useful for populating calendar widgets in GUI clients. Optionally a journal can be specified. It returns a list of the dates and accompanied counts.

Request Parameters

LiveJournal's Common Request Parameters
usejournal - Journal username that authenticating user has 'usejournal' access in, as given in the 'login' mode. If getting the day counts of a shared journal, include this key and the username you wish to get the counts of. By default, you load the counts of "user" as specified above. (optional)

Return Values

daycounts - An array of struct of type DayCount for each day that the user has posted a journal entry

DayCount Type

date - The date, in yyyy-dd-mm format.
count - The number of journal entries on that date.

Sample Request

Sample Response

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodResponse>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value>
        <struct>
          <member>
            <name>daycounts</name>
            <value>
              <array>
                <data>
                <value>
                  <struct>
                    <member>
                      <name>count</name>
                      <value>
                        <int>1</int>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                    <member>
                      <name>date</name>
                      <value>
                        <string>1995-05-01</string>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                  </struct>
                </value>
                <value>
                  <struct>
                    <member>
                      <name>count</name>
                      <value>
                        <int>1</int>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                    <member>
                      <name>date</name>
                      <value>
                        <string>1997-05-01</string>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                  </struct>
                </value>
                <value>
                  <struct>
                    <member>
                      <name>count</name>
                      <value>
                        <int>1</int>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                    <member>
                      <name>date</name>
                      <value>
                        <string>1999-05-03</string>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                  </struct>
                </value>
                <value>
                  <struct>
                    <member>
                      <name>count</name>
                      <value>
                        <int>17</int>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                    <member>
                      <name>date</name>
                      <value>
                        <string>1999-05-04</string>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                  </struct>
                </value>
                ... 
                <value>
                  <struct>
                    <member>
                      <name>count</name>
                      <value>
                        <int>1</int>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                    <member>
                      <name>date</name>
                      <value>
                        <string>2020-02-20</string>
                      </value>
                    </member>
                  </struct>
                </value></data>
              </array>
            </value>
          </member>
        </struct>
      </value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodResponse>

LJ.XMLRPC.getdaycounts

Request Parameters

Return Values

DayCount Type

Sample Request

Sample Response

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