kartik727 / tumblthree

A Tumblr Blog Backup Application

TumblThree - A Tumblr Blog Backup Application

TumblThree is a free and open source Tumblr blog backup application. It downloads photo, video, audio and text posts from a given tumblr blog.
It is the code rewrite of TumblTwo, using the Win Application Framework (WAF) and C# with WPF and the MVVM pattern.

Features

• Source code at github (Written in C# using WPF and MVVM).
• Multiple concurrent downloads of a single blog.
• Multiple concurrent downloads of different blogs.
• Internationalization support (currently available: de, es, fr, ru, zh).
• A download queue.
• Autosave of the queuelist.
• Save, clear and restore the queuelist.
• A clipboard monitor that detects blogname.tumblr.com urls in the clipboard (copy and paste) and automatically adds the blog to the bloglist.
• A settings panel (change download location, turn preview off/on, define number of concurrent downloads, set the imagesize of downloaded pictures, set download defaults, enable portable mode, etc.).
• Uses Windows proxy settings.
• A bandwidth throttler.
• An option to download an url list instead of the actual files.
• Set a start time for a automatic download (e.g. during nights).
• An option to skip the download of a file if it has already been downloaded before in any currently added blog.
• Change the blog settings of multiple selected blogs at once
• Uses SSL connections.
• Preview of photos & videos.
• Taskbar buttons and key bindings.
• File rename functionality

Blog backup/download:

• Download of photo, video (only tumblr.com hosted), text, audio, quote, conversation, link and question posts.
• Download meta information for photo, video and audio posts.
• Downloads inlined photos and videos (e.g. photos embedded in question&answer posts).
• Download of all image sizes possible (SVC, API only for newer blogs, higher resolution not possible for old blogs)
• Support for downloading Imgur, Gfycat, Webmshare, Mixtape, Lolisafe, Uguu, Catbox and SafeMoe linked files in tumblr posts.
• Download of safe mode/NSFW blogs.
• Allows to download only original content of the blog and skip reblogged posts.
• Can download only tagged posts.
• Can download only specific blog pages instead of the whole blog.
• Allows to download blog posts in a defined time span.
• Can download hidden blogs (login required / dash board blogs).
• Can download password protected blogs (of non-hidden blogs).

Liked/by and Likes backup/download:

• A downloader for downloading "liked by" (e.g. https://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/wallpaperfx/) and "likes" (e.g. https://www.tumblr.com/likes) photos and videos instead of a tumblr blog (login required).
• Download of all image sizes possible (SVC, API only for newer blogs, higher resolution not possible for old blogs)
• Allows to download posts in a defined time span.

Tumblr search backup/download:

• A downloader for downloading photos and videos from the tumblr search (e.g. http://www.tumblr.com/search/my+keywords).
• Download of all image sizes possible (SVC, API only for newer blogs, higher resolution not possible for old blogs)
• Allows to download posts in a defined time span.

Tumblr tag search backup/download:

• A downloader for downloading photos and videos from the tumblr tag search (e.g. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/my+keywords) (login required).
• Download of all image sizes possible (SVC, API only for newer blogs, higher resolution not possible for old blogs)
• Allows to download posts in a defined time span.

Download

Latest versions can be found here.

If you experience crashes right before or while logging in, it may be that on your system the "Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2019" (x86 or x64) is missing. You can download it from MS.

Screenshot

Application Usage

Read our wiki page about Application Usage

Getting Started

The default settings should cover most users. You should only have to change the download location and the kind of posts you want to download. You can find more information in our wiki Getting Started and Insights.

How to Build the Source Code to Help Further Development

• Download Visual Studio. The minimum required version is Visual Studio 2015 (C# 6.0 feature support).
• Download the source code as .zip file or use a git client (e.g. GitHub Desktop or TortoiseGit) and checkout the code.
• Open the TumblThree.sln solution file in the src/ directory of the code.
• Build the Source once before editing anything. Build->Build Solution.

Contributing to TumblThree

We like the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome! If you've ever wanted to contribute to open source, and a great cause, now is your chance!

• You can find useful information about How and What you can contribute to the TumblThree project here.
• Also see the wiki page for ideas of new or missing features and add your thoughts.

Contributors ✨

Last but not least see also the list of contributors who participated in this project.