ruby-tumblr

What

ruby-tumblr is a library for tumblr API.

Installing

sudo gem install ruby-tumblr

API Document

http://ruby-tumblr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/

Demonstration of usage

read

Tumblr::API.read("tumblr.dynamic-semantics.com") do |pager|
  data = pager.page(0)
  p data.tumblelog
  data.posts.each do |post|
    p post
  end
end

write

Tumblr::API.write($email, $password) do
  regular("test body", "test title")
  quote("test quote", "test source")
  link("http://tumblr.dynamic-semantics.com", "test link")
end

backup

Tumblr::API.read("tumblr.dynamic-semantics.com") do |pager|
  data = Tumblr::Data.new
  0.upto(pager.last_page) do |n|
    puts "get #{n}/#{pager.last_page}" 
    data << pager.page(n)
  end
  data.save(File.join(ENV["HOME"], "backup.xml"))
end

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-tumblr

TODO – create Google Group – ruby-tumblr

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code and for section 8b: Submit patch to Google Groups, use the Google Group above.

The trunk repository is svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ruby-tumblr/trunk for anonymous access.

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the Ruby license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to Keita Yamaguchi.

Dr Nic, 21st August 2007
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