Scheduled Imports

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Title:
Scheduled Imports

Area:
importer

Summary:
I want to be able to schedule regular imports of other journals.

Description:
A lot of people maintain journals in two places, like on DW and LJ. And maybe they make posts on LJ that they want imported instead of using the crossposter, but don't want to have to manually do it every now and then. Or they want to let people comment in both places and automatically get new comments imported into their DW. It would be really useful if they could set up automatic scheduled imports so that this would happen daily, weekly, biweekly or monthly.

This should probably be implemented after the crossposter and importer talk to each other. It would also require stored account details like service, username, and password.

Because this encourages heavier use of the importer, which is undesirable to overload, and because free users can still use the importer whenever they want, this could easily be a paid feature. Additionally, it could be tiered by minimum time between imports, where Premium Paid accounts could perhaps set up daily imports and Paid accounts could have weekly imports. Another tier could be number of accounts allowed to have scheduled imports. Automatic imports for regular backups along with search would make a paid DW a good second account for heavy users of LJ, whether or not they're actually into using DW as a place to read.

Downsides to this: it could clog up the importer. We don't want any one service we're importing from to be burdened by our imports.

Poll #961 Scheduled Imports

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

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Should be implemented as-is.
18 (46.2%)

Should be implemented with changes.
9 (23.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (30.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)