Data Sources

There are some data sources that you can use when trying to get information about Dreamwidth and its users, especially programmatically.

Atom and RSS Feeds
All users currently have Atom and RSS feeds. Note that they can change the syndication's content with the syndication level setting.

Feeds are located at:

http://user.dreamwidth.org/data/rss http://user.dreamwidth.org/data/atom

Interest Data
Interest data can give you information on the specific interests a user has, or how many users have listed an interest.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/misc/interestdata.bml?user=USERNAME http://www.dreamwidth.org/misc/interestdata.bml?int=INTEREST

Icon Data
You can get information on an account's icons through an Atom feed.

http://exampleusername.dreamwidth.org/data/userpics http://exampleusername.dreamwidth.org/data/userpics.rdf

FOAF
FOAF files are available here:

http://exampleusername.dreamwidth.org/data/foaf http://exampleusername.dreamwidth.org/data/foaf.rdf

Edges Data
This is our JSON formatted replacement for LJ's fdata.bml.

http://exampleusername.dreamwidth.org/data/edges http://www.dreamwidth.org/data/edges?user=exampleusername

OPML
http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/opml.bml?user=USERNAME

Service Stats
Stats on service activity are available here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/stats

Raw stats are currently unavailable.