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Liru / tumblr-downloader

A command-line program that scrapes tumblr blogs, and downloads images and videos from several at once.
MIT License
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Add downloading of "likes" #45

Open Shaav opened 7 years ago

Shaav commented 7 years ago

I came across this project because I was looking for a tool to download images/videos that I have "liked" using my own account. It would be perfect for my purposes if there was just a little flag somewhere that added the option to download from .tumblr.com/likes rather than the blog itself... Seems like that wouldn't be a difficult thing to add?

Shaav commented 7 years ago

Yeah, so maybe not so simple. I thought maybe it would be easy enough I could just do it myself! Foolishly, I thought you were scraping the actual page --- should have known better there: who does that these days?? --- and could just add "likes" to the url. Of course, it's the api and there is no *.tumblr.com/likes/api/read/json equivalent. You need to use v2 of the api to get access to even publicly accessible likes which means registering an app to get an api key. That I have no problem with---did in fact---but even then it looks like the parameters for iterating calls through the post history are different. Probably the json is all different too. :P Became too much for me right at this moment, especially since I've never used Go before.

So, anyway, I'd still love to see the functionality, but I understand that it probably only makes sense if you move to v2 of the api.

Liru commented 7 years ago

I'm still thinking about moving to the v2 API, but the original point of this project was to quickly download just users' images. If this is going to be added, it'll probably be added in v2.0 of this program, since I was planning on making some config files that would let you specify what should be downloaded from a certain user.

Making a separate program to download someone's "liked" posts should be easy enough once you get the API key, though.