Um, yes that is true. But what I need is to move links, and those go to the images directly, not through the Scrapbook. So, while you can't move galleries as a whole, that's not what I am looking for. What I want is this:
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As a user, I want to:
Move existing LJ Scrapbook image links that are in my DW journal posts to my DW Images automatically.
Prerequisites: A registered LJ account - e.g. one from the crossposter
I'm assuming it's possible to have the importer login to the registered LJ account to be able to see LJ-flocked images. The existing journal importer can do this for posts.
Technically, this means an importer must: 1) go through all my DW journal posts 2) parse out all the links to images that go to LJs Scrapbook (url http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/[my registered lj user name]/*) 3) add them to my DW Images - using the "alt" attribute as image description - setting image security (public/flocked/private) according to the post privacy settings - ideally remembering that the image was imported and from what url so they aren't imported twice 4) rewrite the image links in the DW post to the new DW Image links
This means there needs to be a map kept for links that were already moved in the same importer run, or a way to remember which link a DW Image has on LJ, so images that are used more than once are only imported once. A new attribute is probably needed for that.
Since we have no direct Scrapbook access, the original image security setting is impossible to determine. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Setting the security to the same level the DW post has is a compromise.
Example post source code before:
Example post source code after. Links are rewritten, all previous img tag attributes are kept:
Maybe there could be added some new (invalid) img attribute to show the previous LJ url in the img tag, too. I tried showing this with the first link.
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Does that make sense? I really want this.
I know that parsing post code is a bit risky, but at least it is a feasible solution. Since the alternative is losing all the images in your journal when LJ goes away, I think it's worth the risk of the importer breaking a few posts.
Alternatively, if a global importer is too much, I'd settle for an "import image links in this post" button. I'd have to go through all the posts manually, but it's better than nothing.
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--- tell me where to put this as an official feature request ---
As a user, I want to:
Move existing LJ Scrapbook image links that are in my DW journal posts to my DW Images automatically.
Prerequisites:
A registered LJ account - e.g. one from the crossposter
I'm assuming it's possible to have the importer login to the registered LJ account to be able to see LJ-flocked images. The existing journal importer can do this for posts.
Technically, this means an importer must:
1) go through all my DW journal posts
2) parse out all the links to images that go to LJs Scrapbook (url http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/[my registered lj user name]/*)
3) add them to my DW Images
- using the "alt" attribute as image description
- setting image security (public/flocked/private) according to the post privacy settings
- ideally remembering that the image was imported and from what url so they aren't imported twice
4) rewrite the image links in the DW post to the new DW Image links
This means there needs to be a map kept for links that were already moved in the same importer run, or a way to remember which link a DW Image has on LJ, so images that are used more than once are only imported once. A new attribute is probably needed for that.
Since we have no direct Scrapbook access, the original image security setting is impossible to determine. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Setting the security to the same level the DW post has is a compromise.
Example post source code before:
Example post source code after. Links are rewritten, all previous img tag attributes are kept:
Maybe there could be added some new (invalid) img attribute to show the previous LJ url in the img tag, too. I tried showing this with the first link.
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Does that make sense? I really want this.
I know that parsing post code is a bit risky, but at least it is a feasible solution. Since the alternative is losing all the images in your journal when LJ goes away, I think it's worth the risk of the importer breaking a few posts.
Alternatively, if a global importer is too much, I'd settle for an "import image links in this post" button. I'd have to go through all the posts manually, but it's better than nothing.