This project was created as a black box, from scratch reimplementation of Liru/tumblr-downloader, recreating and improving upon its features.
- Downloads all photos and videos of a blog, including those inlined into posts
- Automatically stops scraping a blog where it left off the last time
- Allows filtering out reblogs
- Uses Tumblr's v2 API, which is more robust and significantly faster
- Simulates Tumblr's private API to even scrape private blogs if needed
- All downloads are parallelized
- Documentation (up until now this strictly has been a private project)
- Crawling of >5000 posts per day will lead to rate limiting
- Continuing a previously failed crawl/scrape is not supported
Setting thebeforefield in the config allows you to scrape backwards starting at a date in the past.
That way you can manually, iteratively scrape a huge blog in "sane" chunks (e.g. first everything before 2014, then 2015, 2016, ...). - Support for
youtube-dlwould be nice