FAQ Question #149

All journals on LiveJournal have both an RSS and an Atom feed. For personal journals, the feeds are located at URLs of the following forms:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/data/atom

In both cases, "exampleusername" is replaced with your username.

These URLs are used for community journals:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/communityname/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/communityname/data/atom

In both cases, "communityname" is replaced with the community's username.

Both types of feeds display only the 25 most recent entries. Protected entries are visible if the user requesting the feed is able to authenticate with LiveJournal and has permission to see the entries. This may be done either through your browser's login cookies, or by HTTP Digest Auth by appending ?auth=digest to the URL. That is:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/data/rss?auth=digest
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/data/atom?auth=digest
http://www.livejournal.com/community/communityname/data/rss?auth=digest
http://www.livejournal.com/community/communityname/data/atom?auth=digest

For example, if you view your RSS feed in your browser while logged in, you will see all your most recent entries in it. However, someone who is not logged in, or someone you do not list as a friend, would not be able to see any protected entries in the feed.

Feeds include the subject (when present), the full text of the entry, and a link to the entry. Backdated entries (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=91) will not show up in your data feeds.

RSS feeds provided by LiveJournal at the URLs above are RSS version 2.0.

Information about how bots may be used to read these files can be found at http://www.livejournal.com/bots/.