Eza's Tumblr Scrape

Creates a new page showing just the images from any Tumblr

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Posted: 22.05.2019

Broken for "search" URLs

This seems to be broken for "search" URLs like: https://www.tumblr.com/search/eza/

This looks like it might be due to change in pagination URL to: https://www.tumblr.com/search/eza/post_page/3

I changed one of the references to that, and that seems to work.

Now just how to figure out how to download images with this..

EzaliasAuthor
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Posted: 25.05.2019

I was not aware this script ran on www.tumblr.com. It's intended for individual blogs.

Search /post_page URLs do not contain unique content based on their number. This script cannot display more than one page of search results.

www.tumblr.com/tagged/example pages might work? Unfortunately they use Unix timestamps instead of /page URLs.

www.tumblr.com/dashboard is also possibly usable, but that uses /post numbers instead of consistent /page URLs.

The way this script finds and displays pages does not fit those URL structures. I won't rule out future support... but right now the script is working as intended.

Sorry.

EzaliasAuthor
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Posted: 10.06.2019

This script now handles www.tumblr.com/tagged/example pages, at least as well as Tumblr does. There is a "next" button, but no "previous" button. So far images are only shown, and cannot be listed as text links.

That part was easy and fun. Fixing instant image resizing took another eight hours. Javascript is a terrible language and Tumblr is a terrible website.

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