download your liked photos from tumblr

tumblr-likes-downloader.rb

require 'tumblr_client'
require 'mechanize'
require 'date'
require 'yaml'
require 'uri'

Tumblr.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = "consumer_key"
  config.consumer_secret = "consumer_secret"
  config.oauth_token = "oath_token"
  config.oauth_token_secret = "token_secret"
end

THREADPOOL_SIZE = 4
SEGMENT_SIZE = 25

HISTORY_FILE = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "previous.yml")


previous_dled_ids = YAML.load(File.open(HISTORY_FILE)) rescue []

directory = "tumblr-likes"

client = Tumblr::Client.new
likes = client.likes
liked_count = likes["liked_count"]

puts liked_count

likes = []

(0...liked_count).each do |i|
  if i==0 or i%SEGMENT_SIZE==0
    p "getting #{SEGMENT_SIZE} more likes starting at #{i}: #{likes.count} thus far"
    client.likes({:limit => SEGMENT_SIZE, :offset => i})["liked_posts"].each do |like|
     likes << like if like['type'] == 'photo' and !previous_dled_ids.include?(like['id'])
   end
 end

end

if likes.empty? 
  p "no new likes!"
  exit 0
end 

puts "#{likes.count} new likes!"



# some of this code comes from https://github.com/jamiew/tumblr-photo-downloader

already_had = 0

threads = []
likes.each_slice(likes.count / THREADPOOL_SIZE ).each do |group|

  threads << Thread.new {
    begin
      p "launching thread #{threads.size + 1}"

      group.each do |like|

        i = 0
        like["photos"].each do |photo|
          url = photo["original_size"]["url"]

          filename = "#{like["blog_name"]}-#{like["slug"]}-"
          filename += "#{i}-" if i > 0
          filename += File.basename(URI.parse(url).path.split('?')[0])
          if File.exists?("#{directory}/#{filename}")
            puts "Already have #{url}"
            already_had += 1
          else
            begin
              puts "Saving photo #{url}"
              file = Mechanize.new.get(url)
              file.save_as("#{directory}/#{filename}")
            rescue Mechanize::ResponseCodeError => e
              puts "Error #{e.response_code} getting file for #{url}"
            end
          end
          i += 1  
          previous_dled_ids << like['id']            
        end
      end
    rescue Exception => e
      puts "unhandled exception:, #{$!}"
    end
    p "closing thread"
  }
  
end

threads.each{|t| t.join }

YAML.dump(previous_dled_ids, File.open(HISTORY_FILE, "w"))

Not pretending to have any major knowledge about ruby or programming in general. However, some questions above are pretty basic so i’ll write down the steps i took to make this work on my mac. I used the fork zbas made since i had more than 1000 likes to download.

• Register a tumblr app to get the consumer_key and the consumer_secret.
  You can do this here: www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps
• Use the in browser tumblr_api console tumblr provides to get the oauth_token and oath_token_secret for my tumblr account.
  This can be had here: https://api.tumblr.com/console/
• Paste all of the above in the script fork of zbas.
• install the latest version of ruby using homebrew
  Command in terminal in iMac: brew install ruby
• Clone the git repository for the required gem tumblr_client to get the before functionality since this is only contained in the master version.
  Command in terminal on iMac: git clone https://github.com/tumblr/tumblr_client.git
• Build the tumblr_client gem from the cloned repository.
  Command in terminal on iMac(in the repository directory): gem build tumblr_client.gemspec
• Install both the generated tumblr_client gem and the required mechanize gem.
  Commands in terminal on iMac(in the repository directory to pick the correct client):
  gem install tumblr_client-0.8.5.gem
  gem install mechanize
• run the ruby script in terminal using the command:
  ruby tumblr-likes-downloader.rb

Many thanks to all who contributed and mbas for his fork.

I am getting this error (Mac OS Sierra):

tumblr-likes-downloader.rb:37:in <main>': undefined method each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

Any advice?

If you are not able to run this, here I made one as well:

https://github.com/neuro-sys/tumblr-downloader-client

If any one like node.js, I made one too https://github.com/gonejack/tumblr-likes-downloader