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squirrelitude ([personal profile] squirrelitude) wrote2017-04-05 09:08 am
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To delete your LJ

If you're looking to delete your old Livejournal posts now that you've moved to Dreamwidth and LJ continues to pile on the suck, I've written an honestly kinda crappy tool that does the job:

https://github.com/timmc/lj-expunge

It's repurposed from ljdump and it walks all your journal entries and sets the subject, body, and various metadata fields to "wiped". If someone would like to improve it (there's a TODOs list at the bottom), patches are welcome.

If you find or write another tool to do this, please feel free to link to it in comments.

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