FOAF File

A Friend of a Friend (FOAF) file is made to describe links between people in a machine readable format. You can read more about it at foaf-project.org.

=LiveJournal and FOAF=

Locations and examples
Community and personal accounts have a FOAF file. By default, all friends on a journal's friends list are included in it.

http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/data/foaf http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/data/foaf.rdf http://the_unadvocate.livejournal.com/data/foaf http://the_unadvocate.livejournal.com/data/foaf.rdf http://community.livejournal.com/examplecomm/data/foaf http://community.livejournal.com/examplecomm/data/foaf.rdf



  exampleusername aa878b768897c68e4d4f8386593ab8ae6f8b1a62   LiveJournal.com Profile Full LiveJournal.com profile, including information such as interests and bio.    </foaf:Person> </rdf:RDF> <?xml version='1.0'?>

<rdf:RDF xml:lang="en" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <foaf:Person> the_unadvocate</foaf:nick> af0529b74e12e3ca9046b94df589fd29a30d3af1</foaf:mbox_sha1sum> <foaf:img rdf:resource="http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/44042732/9975509" />  <foaf:Document rdf:about="http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=the_unadvocate"> LiveJournal.com Profile</dc:title> Full LiveJournal.com profile, including information such as interests and bio.</dc:description> </foaf:Document> </foaf:page> <foaf:weblog rdf:resource="http://the-unadvocate.livejournal.com/"/> <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://www.noljads.com/" dc:title="No LJ Ads" /> <foaf:knows> <foaf:Person> adzite1</foaf:nick> <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://adzite1.livejournal.com/data/foaf" /> <foaf:weblog rdf:resource="http://adzite1.livejournal.com/"/> </foaf:Person> </foaf:knows> </foaf:Person> </rdf:RDF>

Using an external FOAF file
If you want to use your own FOAF file, you can set it to an external URL using this setting:

http://www.livejournal.com/settings/?tag=foaf

Limiting which friends are in your FOAF file
FAQ #149 describes how you can limit who shows up in your FOAF file by creating a Custom Friend Group called

FOAF-knows