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LJ.XMLRPC.syncitems

Returns a list (or part of a list) of all the items (journal entries, to-do items, comments) that have been created or updated on LiveJournal since you last downloaded them. Note that the items themselves are not returned --- only...

LJ.XMLRPC.sessiongenerate

Generates a Live Journal session to more easily transitions users from a client to the Live Journal web interface....

LJ.XMLRPC.sessionexpire

Using this request mode, you can expire previously generated sessions, whether you generated them using the sessiongenerate call or the user logged in on the web site....

LJ.XMLRPC.postevent

The postevent method creates a new journal entry....

LJ.XMLRPC.login

This method logs into LiveJournal and retrieves information about the user logging in....

LJ.XMLRPC.getfriends

Returns a detailed list of the friends associated with the authenticated user's account....

LJ.XMLRPC.getfriendgroups

Retrieves a list of the authenitcated user's custom friends groups....

LJ.XMLRPC.getevents

Returns a list of a user's journal entries....

LJ.XMLRPC.getdaycounts

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....

LJ.XMLRPC.getchallenge

Generate a one-time, quick expiration challenge to be used in challenge/response authentication methods....

LJ.XMLRPC.friendof

Returns a "friends of" list for a specified user. An optional limit of returned friends can be supplied....

LJ.XMLRPC.editfriends

Adds, edits and/or deletes friends from your LiveJournal friends list....

LJ.XMLRPC.editfriendgroups

Updates the list of the current user’s custom friends groups provided in the request....

LJ.XMLRPC.editevent

Edit or delete an existing journal entry....

LJ.XMLRPC.consolecommand

The LiveJournal server has a text-based shell-like admininistration console where less-often used commands can be entered. This provides a framework for dispatching commands to a LiveJournal server....

LJ.XMLRPC.checkfriends

This method polls the server to see if the current user’s friends list has been updated. This is the preferred way to see when a friends list is updated as it is very fast and very lightweight....

Common Request Parameters

Every LiveJournal XML-RPC request takes a common set of request parameters....

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