Embed Journal Contents Into External Site?

[charamei]

Title:
Embed Journal Contents Into External Site?

Area:
entries, features

Summary:
Ability to embed journal contents into external sites - not necessarily the style, just the contents

Description:
Like many people, I dislike having to update multiple blogs in multiple places with the same information; one of the great attractions of DW for me is its ability to rmeotely update my other blogs (thanks!). One thing I do miss from LJ is the ability to embed my blog into an outside site, to save me having to update it there, too; it would be lovely if DW could add this feature. Better yet would be the ability to leave the style behind and just embed the journal contents/comments (aaaand maybe the avatars...); although I love the embed feature and the codebase, I've never liked the way LJ forces you to build the site around the journal.

Poll #1130 Embed Journal Contents Into External Site?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33

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Should be implemented as-is.
16 (48.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (9.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (3.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (36.4%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (3.0%)

Comments

[zvi]

I think charamei means something similar to the LJ embed methods which are mostly script based.

(one thing that would make this even more delightful would be if it supported tag arguments.)

[snakeling]

I know what he meant; I've done it myself. :)

But the easiest way to get the info without the style would be to use an XML file that listed the info, culling it from there, and displaying it. Lucky for us, there's already an XML file with the entries' info, the RSS feed. Unfortunately, it lacks a good deal of the info associated with an entry.

[charamei]

Pssst... I'm a girl :)

Personally, I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to go about ripping open an RSS feed/XML file, but I can certainly see that it would be a possibility for a more competent coder.

[zvi]

I wasn't actually commenting so much for your edification as for people returning to this entry later, trying to figure out what charmei's original suggestion was for. Personally, I found the original proposal to vague to vote on, and I'd never seen the technical references for what became a little clearer once she described it, although it was enough for my friend Google to dig up what I linked to.