RSS feed of your Tumblr dashboard

Update 08/15: code is now on GitHub

Been using the blogging service Tumblr lately: jamiew.tumblr.com
Very happy with the simplicity (and reblogging!) but disappointed by the lack of RSS for the dashboard!

Voilá a quick Ruby script to login to your Tumblr account, scrape the last 50 posts or so, and output as RSS.

>> tumblr-dashboard-rss.rb

usage:

  • set the email & password variables
  • put in a cgi-bin on your server, or
  • use an RSS reader like Vienna or NetNewsWire that can parse RSS from a local file

I’m avoiding setting this up as service; just wanted to put the code out there.

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