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BenWard / tumblr2wordpress

A single-page PHP script to export all public posts from a Tumblr account and export them as Wordpress extended RSS. (Enhancement fork of Hao Chen's Tumblr2Wordpress.)
http://tumblr2wordpress.benapps.net/
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Error fetching Tumblr posts #5

Closed jakelevine closed 14 years ago

jakelevine commented 14 years ago

Hi Ben,

Thanks for this script but unfortunately it does not seem to be working for me. Can you advise? My blog is at jakelevine.tumblr.com

Best, Jake

My error: Error fetching Tumblr posts String could not be parsed as XML 200 posts fetched

BenWard commented 14 years ago

There's definitely some flakey behaviour with collecting all the posts from Tumblr. I'm rewriting that piece of code at the moment, and there should be something new to try shortly (say, an hour from now.)

BenWard commented 14 years ago

Merge from other issue: http://maryrambin.tumblr.com/ fails as well.

BenWard commented 14 years ago

Switching to using curl for Tumblr API requests has greater improved the stability of the script; I can't reproduce the failure on jakelevine anymore.

In the event of network/API failure, the script will now output much more detailed debugging information. It's not very smart or refined, but if Tumblr throws up, you'll at least be able to see what the error is an act accordingly. Oftentimes, if the API goes down or is overloaded, the solution will just be to retry the export after a few minutes. The script could certainly do smarter things there (pausing, retrying, doing a partial export), but for the time being I don't see that level of user-friendliness as a priority. So long as people know what the failure was, and so long as it works reliable most of the time, I think that is sufficient for our purposes.

Code is updated and tagged as v0.3.1.