A Tumblr dashboard RSS feed
UPDATE: If this Yahoo! Pipes version is acting buggy for you and you have some web space, try using the PHP version I recently wrote instead. It works way better!
If you’re a geek like me, you try to get all your internet content from as few places as possible. Right now, to keep up with all the blogs, communities and people I love, I go to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stack Overflow (and a few of its spin-off sites), a message board or two and, last but not least, Google Reader. Not to mention my own calendar, to-do list and a few other randoms.
The general goal is to get as much of my life into Google Reader as possible. But not everything in my life is an RSS feed, so I have to make do. That is, until I have a couple hours to nerd out and figure out a way to turn one of those sites into an RSS feed.
Today’s target: Tumblr. I love the Tumblr dashboard, but it’s basically its own social RSS feed of everyone you follow, but without its own RSS feed.
So, I created a Tumblr dashboard RSS feed using the power of Yahoo Pipes. All you have to do is enter your Tumblr username and password (don’t worry, nobody will ever see it) and you get an RSS feed that you can throw into your favorite RSS aggregator.
It’s still got a few bugs, but I did as best I could to make it presentable. Of course, it being a Yahoo Pipe, you can always clone it and fix bugs yourself. Or, if you find an issue and you’d rather have me fix it, you can do that too. Just send me an email or leave a comment here.
Known Issues
- Videos don’t show up. You have to click through to see them on the blog site. Still trying to figure this one out.
- Audio won’t play. You have to click through for these too.
- You don’t get feed items when someone likes a post or starts following you. Think of it as an opportunity to reduce your own vanity.
Some credit is due to Satoru Tamura’s original pipe that I cloned this from, which gave me a basic structure to expand.
- August 6th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
- Category: Uncategorized
thankss! i’d been waiting for this pipe..
Comment by buoka — August 8, 2010 @ 11:07 pmAwesome. Thanks! I was worried I was going to have to make this pipe.
Comment by Brandon — September 15, 2010 @ 3:10 pmjust what i needed. thanks for this!
Comment by joe — October 6, 2010 @ 7:42 pm[...] while back when I was bored I made a little tool that turns a Tumblr dashboard feed into an RSS feed that can be imported into Google Reader (or [...]
Pingback by Another (nerdier) Tumblr dashboard RSS feed | Josh Mock — October 25, 2010 @ 1:03 pmI needed this so badly. Thank you!
Comment by Narae — October 29, 2010 @ 12:28 amThanks!
Comment by Aaron — December 2, 2010 @ 11:11 pmBrilliant! Just what I needed.
I can hardly believe that tumblr don’t have an rss feed for the dashboard already.
Comment by Chris — December 13, 2010 @ 8:11 amCool! Got to be some way to filter for just photo and text or something
Comment by scodal — December 18, 2010 @ 8:12 pmNICE. Thank you! Ever figure out the video or mp3 bugs?
Comment by gsb — December 30, 2010 @ 11:39 amAmazing! Thanks!
Comment by bonjour404 — January 2, 2011 @ 6:06 pmthank you so much! this is just what i’ve been looking for!
Comment by julie — February 8, 2011 @ 4:53 pmCool – thanks! I want my content from as few places as possible also…guess that makes me a nerd too!
I am down to essentially 2 places – (1) I use Hootsuite for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn and (2) I use GoogleReader to catch all my blogs and (now!) my Tumblr feed.
Cheers!
Comment by Brett — June 27, 2011 @ 9:35 amThanks for ur pipe! It works but there is a problem i cant figure out. According to know issue no.3, the post people like refers to the corresponding item that appears in my dashboard right? Therefore, when every new post is liked by people does it turn out that none is fetched in the feed?
Comment by perry — August 2, 2011 @ 10:52 pmHmmm. I get this:
Comment by Tromans — November 4, 2011 @ 3:29 pmPipes encountered a problem while running this pipe: Pipes engine request failed (malformed engine data) (2)
Awesome! Thanks so much. Works great.
Comment by mithudso — January 10, 2012 @ 11:47 pm