Tumblr image downloader and archiver

A simple bash script that scans the archive of a tumblelog and gets the image or video files from the post pages. It keeps track of the post pages that have been downloaded, so that existing images are not downloaded again. This makes it easy to archive a tumblelog on your computer and update it if new images were posted.

bash (Version?), wget, grep, egrep (most linux distros should have these)

Checkout the code:

 git clone git://github.com/gedsic/tumbdl.git

Set script as executable:

 cd tumbdl
 chmod +x tumbdl.sh

Run script on your favorite tumblelog

 ./tumbdl.sh prostbote.tumblr.com prostbote

Detailed usage of the script:

 tumbdl.sh [URL] [DIR]
 
 URL: URL of tumblelog
 DIR: directory to put images in

Simply run the script again, passing the URL of the page and the directory in which the old files are.

Delete the articles.txt file in your target directory. This way, the script will scan all archive pages again. Don't worry, existing images will not be overwritten.

Videos not hosted by tumblr will not be downloaded. Try youtube-dl!

If you use tumbdl and like it, you are welcome to donate bitcoins to my address: 1LsCBob5B9SWknoZfF6xpZWJ9GF4NuBLVD

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0, see code for more information

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