Compatible clients
From Dreamwidth Notes
Useful information
Some clients require the user to insert the XML-RPC URL in order to work. Dreamwidth's is at http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/xmlrpc
Other clients use the Blogger api. The url for that is at http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger
In addition to posting, clients include backup tools. Please test those as well.
Basic information
| Client | Platforms | Current DW status | Open Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deepest Sender | All; based on FireFox. | Posting works, including friends only, but doesn't retrieve custom access groups. Can't edit read list/access list through client. | Yes | |
| Charm | Python based command line client | works, except for custom access groups. | Yes, GPL | |
| Semagic | Windows client | Posting works, including friends only, but doesn't retrieve custom access groups. | Yes, GPL | Very popular client |
| Petrus Blogger | Multiplatform, in Java | Might work with little modification; current LJ compatible servers hard coded in interface and include IJ and Rossia.org. Logs into IJ okay but couldn't get working with LJ itself. | Yes, BSD | Looks to be made for Russian first, English second. Well designed Java for the Mac. |
| Logjam | Multiplatform, GTK+ 2 | Works | Yes, GPL v2 | Currently not maintained, but for many Linux distributions, it is the default Livejournal client. |
| Gnome-Blog (aka Blog Entry Poster) | Linux (Gnome) | Works | Yes, GPL | Livejournal is hard-coded into software, using DW requires setting up a "Self-run other" type account. Does not support any info besides Entry title and entry body, e.g. no tags, mood, etc. |
| Drivel | Linux (Gnome) | Works | Yes, GPL v2 | Currently not maintained, does not support tags or multiple security levels |
| BlogTK 1.1 | Multiplatform, GTK+ 2 | Works w/ blogger API (nothing but entry text, not even titles) | Yes, BSD | 2.0 is in alpha, and promises to have fuller Blogger support (which may or may not increase the LJ-clone support) |
| Kblogger | Linux (KDE) | Needs testing by KDE user | Yes, GPL | |
| Google Docs | webservice, multiplatform | Works w/ Blogger API | No | does not support anything but entry text, not even titles |
| MarsEdit | Mac | Works | No | "It asked for the URL for my DW account, then couldn’t download the settings, asking if I wanted the interface to edit them myself. Ultimately, I told it that the API endpoint was dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger, and that sorted everything out.
Clicking through to view the webpage worked beautifully. Authorizing the Flikr image importer worked fine. Adding an image to the draft is previewing properly. I still have a message in my options window that says there are no options for this weblog, but I don’t know what to expect there." |
| JLJ | Perl | Works | Yes | Command line client, development halted in 2006 |
| jbackup.pl | Command line | No | Yes | Didn't work out of the box using --site=dreamwidth.org |
| LJ2ME | Mobile phones, in Java | Works | No | |
| LJXP | crossposting plugin for WordPress, php | works as of 2.0.5 | Yes, MIT License | Back in active development, supports crossposting categories and/or tags as tags, basic privacy levels, comment on or off, header/footer. |
