Friending List, the Days of Yore Edition!

[nookiepowered]

It's not exactly the same as when we were able to use the Admin Console for the Friending List but the amazing never_dull has brought us a holiday miracle all the same: mass-friending scripts for both Windows and Mac users!

If your journal is brand new to the friending list, you can go GO HERE, follow the updated instructions, and add all of the current game-related journals at once. (Up to LJ's 200-ish per day friending limit. To add the rest, just do the whole thing again at least 24 hours later.)

For everybody else, we have new characters to add, old ones to remove, a few to move around, and instructions on how to use one of the scripts to do that all at once!

Step 1: Copy the list behind the cut, paste it into the word processing program of your choice, and save it as a text file: whatever-you-want-to-call-it.txt

Friending/Defriending December 2014

elated_or_gassy,students,add
fallsoldier,townies,add
hexentotchen,students,add
imafuturist,teachers,add
nuclear_snide,teachers,add
princessarcasm,students,add
saddeserthermit,teachers,add
sarcastic_vamp,students,add
seeks_truth,students,add
smilestopscars,students,add
stillamthenight,teachers,add
the_greywaren,students,add
wandering_stone,teachers,add
whoisalicewhite,teachers,add
fewerexplosions,alumni,add
gunslingerpose,alumni,add
holyshitsnacks,townies,add
notmysupervisor,townies,add
raspberryturk,alumni,add
teashopconman,teachers,add
the_merriest,alumni,add
vdistinctive,teachers,add
wrongkindofsith,teachers,add
1stinkinpercent,friends,remove
3girls_1core,friends,remove
6buckstohisname,friends,remove
amthenight,friends,remove
bloody_luck,friends,remove
brainfreediet,friends,remove
chernayavdova,friends,remove
dr_manly_voice,friends,remove
gal_wednesday,friends,remove
gdiumbrella,friends,remove
give_areason,friends,remove
graveyardwolf,friends,remove
jaegerbomber,friends,remove
jaegerborn,friends,remove
multiplez,friends,remove
notasalad,friends,remove
notvenom,friends,remove
poison_princess,friends,remove
rilla_myrilla,friends,remove
screwyoumarvel,friends,remove
thegodofxbox,friends,remove
usedtowhizz,friends,remove
wasthecuteone,friends,remove
willbethenight,friends,remove



Step 2:

For Windows users: download this file. Some browsers will try to save it as a txt file, so after you've downloaded it, verify that it's named correctly by going to Control Panel -- Folder Options -- View, and unchecking "Hide extensions for known file types." If your filename is "Add and Remove Friends.vbs" then all is good. If it's "Add and Remove Friends.vbs.txt" then delete the .txt part.

For Mac users: download this file. (Make sure the filename is "Add and Remove Friends with Groups.app" )

Step 3: Double-click the file you just downloaded to run it.* The script will prompt you to choose the text file with your friending list in it, then it will ask for your journal name and password. (It won't save these or pass them on to anywhere but Livejournal.) Once that's done, it will add all of the friends on the list, up to Livejournal's daily limit, and when finished, will tell you which, if any, journals couldn't be added.

That's it, and poof, you're done!

[*If you're a Windows user and the file opens in Notepad instead of running, here's how to fix that: right-click on the "Add and Remove Friends.vbs" file and choose "Open With..." Check the box that says "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" then Browse to c:\windows\system32\wscript.exe and click Open, then OK. Now double-clicking the "Add and Remove Friends.vbs" file should run the script.]




As usual, if you have a question or you see anybody we need to add/shift/remove, let us know in the comments and we'll get that fixed up!

Comments

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

Just a quick heads up that Ronan's username has an underscore. The other username will get someone not affiliated with the game friended.

[nookiepowered]

Arrgh, I fixed that everywhere else, and then missed it in the most important place! Thanks for catching it.

[furnaceface]

Not even that, since it's not a journal that exists, apparently. But thanks for saying something so that I can add you manually from here. :D

[furnaceface]

LLWY YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL PERSON AND ALSO MY HERO FOREVER.

Oh man that went so quickly. <3 Thank you! And to the admins for passing it along and curating the flist and all. :D

[sharp_as_knives]

<3! Hey, I didn't wanna have to do it manually, either! :D

[sharp_as_knives]

Psst - The clicky link after raspberryturk has an extraneous s at the end.

Also, since apparently Jalian's roommate is going away, is it too late to get her a new one?

[nookiepowered]

TOO SLOW I JUST FIXED THAT S SO THERE.

And there aren't any leftover empty spaces among the roomie pairs, so Jalian gets a single this term. (Unless you bump into someone else with a non-new character who'd like a roomie -- you can move existing characters in together any time just by letting us know.)

[sharp_as_knives]

Well, poo. If I'd known... Thanks, though!

(I saw that S, I did!)

[sharp_as_knives]

Would there be call for a defriending script? I could do one.

I *think* (wouldn't swear, though) that if you run the current script on the filter-movers, it should move them.

[nookiepowered]

There might be a call for a defriending script? It's not usually a very long list, though; it depends if people would want to make a new text file and run a different script for what's sometimes only a handful of names.

As far as I can tell, the current script doesn't work on the filter movers. It checks to see if you already have those journals friended, and once it sees that you do, it chucks them out of the action.

[sharp_as_knives]

Oh, right! Sorry; that was a late addition, to try avoiding LJ's limit as much as possible. But without that check, I think it would - again, I can do one if there's a call, but with such a small list usually... *shrug*

[sharp_as_knives]

Hm. Or we could have three arguments per line:
journal name, group, action

And do one script to add, move, or delete. If you think it'd be helpful and you don't mind the extra maintenance work on the list, let me know!

[notconflicted]

Thank yooooou!!

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! This worked superbly! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[princessarcasm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[not_every_mage]

I'm sorry, I'm an idiot. Firefox downloads it as a text file named addfriends.vbs.txt. Renaming it doesn't seem to work. What do I need to do it get it to work? I assume I need to change the "open with" but what to?

[sharp_as_knives]

The "open with" should be wscript. But if you change it to just addfriends.vbs, no .txt, it should let you double-click it.

[not_every_mage]

Yeah, I'm not seeing how to do that? It shows as a text document and I don't know how to change the file type. (It's not as simple as renaming.) This is what it looks like in my downloads folder if visual aids help.



I don't have real MS Office -- do I need that for this to work?

[wrongkindofsith]

Yeeeeah, all the script does when I try to run it is throw errors.

[sharp_as_knives]

I'm actually just leaving work now, but if you're on in about an hour, ping me on AIM (Llwyden) or at Hannibal's e-mail? I can try to figure out what's going on.

[gavegoodface]

Now that it's working *uses what is either least or most appropriate shirtless icon as thanks*

[sharp_as_knives]

So it turns out there's a few things to note:

Some characters will cause the XML to error. I hadn't thought of this, because I'm pretty sure LJ doesn't allow them in usernames, but if you happen to have one of these in your password, it'll cause a problem:
    "    '    >    <     &

Also, you can't leave any blank lines in the file you paste the friending list into.

Thought I'd mention them in case they throw anyone off!

(ETA: I can probably edit the code to check for these and fix them, but I'm for bed now.)

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Trying to use it on Mac OS X Yosemite, I keep getting an error that "The application “Add Friends with Groups” can’t be opened."

I'm doing stuff the old fashioned way just to get it don, so it's not pressing for me at the moment. Just FYI.

[sharp_as_knives]

That's a security issue. Stupid thing doesn't like anything not downloaded from the app store. Here's the info on changing your options or just exempting one app.

[stillamthenight.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem to be that. I have it set to allow apps downloaded from anywhere right now and I'm getting the same error. Is it maybe an issue with Yosemite versus another version of OS X?