NEW Tumblr Scraping Method

There hasn't been a good/easy/free way to scrape Tumblr for a little while now (at least not that I've been able to find). Although this isn't a bot, it takes about 30 seconds of your time to scrape ~1000 tumblr URLs.

THINGS YOU NEED
Mozilla Firefox
Link Gopher (Firefox Add-On)
Notepad++

1. Go to Tumblr (it looks new now) and search for a term you want to scrape users for. Using the END key on the keyboard, scroll through the Tumblr posts in your tag until you reach the VERY end of the list. Tumblr will scroll "infinitely" until about 1000 recent posts.
2. With Link Gopher installed, in Firefox go to View->Toolbars->Addons
3. In the bottom right corner of Firefox, you'll see Link Gopher.
4. While on the tumblr tag page, right click on Link Gopher (where it says "Links"), and choose "extract all links."
5. A new window will pop up. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page where the subsection "Domains" is listed. (The full list is divided into bold sections titled LINKS and DOMAINS)
6. Copy and paste all of the domain URLs into Notepad++ and remove the duplicates!

Ta da! Now you have a scraped Tumblr user list.

If anyone knows how to turn this process into an iMacro, it would be greatly appreciated.

i would look for a pic downloaded from tumblr .... not only the urls ... but nice share

Very interesting method, Ill give this a try and see if it works. Thanks for the share.

Do you want to follow these users or what? Because I can give you iMacros macro, which follow users, and user list don't necessary. It follows people (you can change how many of them) and it follows people by niche (follows people on one page like: http://tumblr.com/tagged/health)

I use this to scrape users because in my niche, I sent private messages using proxies to these URLs to encourage them to check out my products.

And to download pictures, you can use Downthemall (another firefox addon) that will download pictures and URLs.

For the cheap price, if you're constantly scraping, just get PRHarvester.

Interesting! Will try and report back.

atosz33 said:

Do you want to follow these users or what? Because I can give you iMacros macro, which follow users, and user list don't necessary. It follows people (you can change how many of them) and it follows people by niche (follows people on one page like: )

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hey, can I get that script. I really want to follow people on tumblr in an automated way

Oh man, I've been waiting for this.