Journal improfane's Journal: Backup My Comments? 2
I'm wondering if anybody knows of a way to download Slashdot comments (and journals) easily?
I'd like to take my own copy of my slashdot comments. Short of writing a script to do it I can't think of a simple way to do it.
Can I get Slashdot to email me after a comment? Really, I should be sensible and save comments to my computer first and paste them in...
Don't think so. (Score:2)
Writing a script is the only thing that came to mind. Maybe someone has already written something similar that you can use as a base - http://slashdot.org/faq/code.shtml [slashdot.org] looks like a good place to start. It would make sense to ask around on Slashcode first I schpose.
Be careful scripting against Slashdot... (Score:2)
I don't know of a way to do what you're suggesting. There is no obvious method, unless you review Slashcode.
Once upon a time, I knew someone who was writing a thing he was calling "6 degrees of Cmdr Taco" (a play on 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon). It was collecting all the users names, IDs, and their friends list. The goal was to produce an association matching of the users, to show the hops from any user to Cmdr Taco.
This was quite a few years ago, when new UIDs