A Tumblr dashboard RSS feed
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
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