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Wylie
Wylie

Reputation: 1064

Possible to find a list of followers or following on Tumblr using API or other means?

The Tumblr API supports basic content reading, but I have not yet found a way to get either the list of followers, or the list of people you are following. The API seems to only return the follower count. The theme documentation has a block that can show who you follow, which is the closest I have found to what I want.

My question is: Given a user's email address and password, is it possible to find either of these lists, through any means? Some sort of background job might be necessary.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 68040

Answers (3)

Wylie
Wylie

Reputation: 1064

To answer my own question:

While this was not possible with the Tumblr API before, the newly release API v2 now supports both types of information.

/followers and /user/following are the relevant commands. They return JSON objects which list the blogs that follow a user, or that a user follows. It looks like they also require OAUTH to access, as this is not public information.

Upvotes: 7

Arvin
Arvin

Reputation: 2282

I am looking for the same thing and one idea I came up with is for the specific Tumblr user to create a custom page with the following settings and code.

  • Page URL: _____.tumblr.com/following.json
  • Page Type: Custom Layout
  • Show a link to this page: unchecked

Custom HTML:

{block:Following}[
{block:Followed}  {
    "name": "{FollowedName}",
    "title": "{FollowedTitle}",
    "url" : "{FollowedURL}",
    "portrait": {
      "16": "{FollowedPortraitURL-16}",
      "24": "{FollowedPortraitURL-24}",
      "30": "{FollowedPortraitURL-30}",
      "40": "{FollowedPortraitURL-40}",
      "48": "{FollowedPortraitURL-48}",
      "64": "{FollowedPortraitURL-64}",
      "96": "{FollowedPortraitURL-96}",
      "128": "{FollowedPortraitURL-128}"
    }
  }, {/block:Followed}
  {}
] {/block:Following}

So I just visit i.e. http://arvn.tumblr.com/following.json But I'm still looking for other alternatives.

Upvotes: 5

Taylor Satula
Taylor Satula

Reputation: 508

The only way I could think of is to use a scrape the content off of Tumblr.com using some sort of script that knew where to look for the names.

This is not an ideal option because if Tumblr changes their code then your system breaks but hopefully it is a bit better than not having it at all. If the API says it doesn't exist I don't think there is any way to do it otherwise.

You could email [email protected] and request it. Who knows, maybe you will get your wish. They are really nice people.

Upvotes: 0

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