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.

Rocketboom owning Sexy Geeks 2007

Rocketboom-affiliated women are in 4 of the top 20 entries for Wired’s Sexiest Geek 2007 contest — go vote, help us bring home the gold!

stats monitor

• link
• source code (ruby+mechanize)

How to scrape MySpace, YouTube, BitJunkie

Bootstrap your career in data hacking! With Ruby and WWW::Mechanize you can get started collecting data on the web with just a few lines of code.

download Jdubs’ mechanize scrapers 1.0 — simple scraping examples for MySpace, YouTube, and torrent index BTjunkie.

Techniques for exploring a web page, Ruby & gem installation, and explanations of the simple extractors below.