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I found this neat script: https://github.com/arty-name/livejournal-export to export all your LJ posts *and* comments to a set of files on your computer, in several formats, including .html that you can browse in a web browser. (There's also json, markdown and xml, so they can be potentially imported somewhere else afterwards.)
I just run it, and I can confirm that it still works! It doesn't require giving your password to anyone, and it's very fast (took me a few minutes, and my LJ started in 2002...)
It requires to copy/paste a couple of cookies from your browser's settings into the file auth.py (so the site thinks that you're logged in, and you don't have to go through the process of logging in.) The ljloggedin cookie can be found under livejournal.com and ljmastersession - under www.livejournal.com. Also, edit download_posts.py to specify the range of years.
If you want to backup your LJ posts, do it ASAP, while LJ is still alive...
I just run it, and I can confirm that it still works! It doesn't require giving your password to anyone, and it's very fast (took me a few minutes, and my LJ started in 2002...)
It requires to copy/paste a couple of cookies from your browser's settings into the file auth.py (so the site thinks that you're logged in, and you don't have to go through the process of logging in.) The ljloggedin cookie can be found under livejournal.com and ljmastersession - under www.livejournal.com. Also, edit download_posts.py to specify the range of years.
If you want to backup your LJ posts, do it ASAP, while LJ is still alive...
