Friend Data

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Personal and Community Accounts have a Friend Data (or "fdata") file.

Personal Accounts have the following format:

http://www.livejournal.com/misc/fdata.bml?user=exampleusername

Usernames preceded by a > are friended by the account.

Usernames preceded by a < list the account as a friend.

Usernames that appear in both sections are mutually friended.

# Note: Polite data miners cache on their end.  Impolite ones get banned.
> exampleusername
< exampleusername

Community Accounts have the following format:

http://www.livejournal.com/misc/fdata.bml?user=examplecomm&comm=1

Usernames preceded by a P> are a member of the community.

Usernames preceded by a P< list the community as a friend.

Usernames that appear in both sections are members and list the community as a friend.

# Note: Polite data miners cache on their end.  Impolite ones get banned.
# Note: examplecomm is a community account
P> exampleusername
P< exampleusername