Is there a Tumblr plugin for EE?
Posted: 29 March 2008 03:48 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I’ve searched the forum and wiki and can’t find anything that indicates whether a fully-fledged Tumblr plugin exists - can anyone tell me if there is one?

Basically I want to import content via the Tumblr API, parse it, and output it via EE tags somehow (also in the RSS/Atom templates as well). I might optionally want to import it into the EE database, I guess, but that’s not so important.

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Posted: 29 March 2008 09:49 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I’ve never even heard of Tumblr - which means I haven’t seen an add-on to pull any information for it.  I do sometimes find out about web services through new add-ons, which is kind of fun.

You can always create a plugin, though!

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Posted: 29 March 2008 09:52 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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How does the API work? Can you post an example, maybe in psuedo-code?

I too don’t have a clue what it is. That doesn’t mean much, but even after reading about it, it just seemed like a moblogger tool, which EE has in the personal/commercial license.

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Posted: 29 March 2008 10:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Jared Farrish - 29 March 2008 09:52 AM

How does the API work? Can you post an example, maybe in psuedo-code?

I too don’t have a clue what it is. That doesn’t mean much, but even after reading about it, it just seemed like a moblogger tool, which EE has in the personal/commercial license.

Tumblr is a tumblelog provider - yes, you could do it with other sites or through EE itself, but Tumblr has some clever ways of extracting certain things (e.g. images, video, quotes) from sites you bookmark, and there’s a Firefox extension to allow you to quickly add stuff while you’re surfing.

The API is pretty simple - it uses HTTP/cURL and returns XML or JSON. Could I use something like Magpie or a generic XML parser plugin?

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Posted: 29 March 2008 11:21 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Oh, so it’s like a heavy-duty feed-as-a-web-service? Are all you’re looking to do is consume and print the data?

EE could do this, I don’t think without a problem, as either a plugin or a module. Of course, I think you would need to have cURL (do you have to send request data like in a POST?) or fopen, or even the xml handlers in PHP 5.

Honestly, you could setup a template to parse PHP on output and get it working, and then turn it into a plugin or module from there.

Have you ever consumed a Tumblr service before?

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Posted: 29 March 2008 03:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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I created a stand-alone class that did it in CodeIgniter as part of a Facebook app, so it’s pretty easy to do. I’ve made a start on a new EE module to consume the API now anyway, as there are a few specific things I need from a Tumblr feed.

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Posted: 29 March 2008 03:28 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Cool! If you can, post the code so someone else may be able to use it or build off of it.

EE 2.0 will be CodeIgnited, so that’s exciting.

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Posted: 11 August 2008 09:31 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Hi, there. New member, resurrecting this thread from March

One of my clients has a complex site built in Expression Engine that contains several blogs. EE’s a great tool, but right now posting quick newsbrief-style items with links is far more complex for site contributors than it needs to be.

I’ve integrated Tumblr with Wordpress blogs, and I know it can be a good third-part posting tool for short items.

Has anyone actually integrated Tumblr into an EE site yet? If so, got a link so I can see how it works?

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