The Great Migration: where’s Spider going, and how to save your stuff.
Alright. So, I’m not huge on other websites, but I have just made an account at mastodon.social (@CellarSpider) which I’ll use as a staging ground, either within the mastodon ecosystem or linking to wherever I end up.
So, with regards to making backups of tumblr content, here’s the major options I’ve found, all but one of which I’ve personally tested:
TumblThree: can back up any public tumblr blog, and save images and MP4 videos from likes, but you must log into your account within the program (under “settings”) and enter https://www.tumblr. com/liked/by/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE as the blog for it to crawl through.
Tumblr’s Blog export feature: slow as balls, but should let you retrieve posts that tumblr has flagged as explicit. Does not back up Likes.
Export to WordPress: This is an option if you don’t have local space for a backup! I haven’t tried it personally, and I don’t know whether it can get to flagged material. It should, because it’s accessing via your account.
tumblr-utils: a Python script that can scrape Likes from your blog and display them in a nice HTML format, but I haven’t been able to get it to fully work on more than a thousand posts. This is the only way you’re getting text out of your Likes. If you manage to get this working, please let me know, so I can update this post.
If you’ve found any other methods, let me know and I can add them as well.
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