Cheapo Tumblr Backup

A scraper for largely-text tumblr blogs.

What you need

• A working Python 2.x (or 3.x) installation.
• A Tumblr API key. You'll use the consumer key for this utility (see below)
• The API URL for the blog you want to scrape.

Running

• Use pip to install the contents of requirements.txt: pip install -r requirements.txt. Ideally you should use virtualenv to prevent installing these packages globally, where they may conflict with future/past Python software.
• Create a config.yml file in the same directory as the scrape.py script. It should contain the keys:
  • api_key: Must be a quoted string equalling the API consumer key you got from Tumblr.
  • url: The API URL for the blog you want to scrape. This is optional, and can be overridden by the --user option on the script.
• Run the scrape.py script. It will go away for awhile and generate a huge html file called posts.html containing all text content of your posts. The content of all photo posts will be dumped into the same directory.