Hi — I’m a web developer. I built a tool (called Archivr) to backup Tumblr blogs a few years ago in the hopes of preserving my likes and my own blog. When Tumblr announced their new (bullshit) rules I dusted off the code and made some improvements.
Using Archivr, I can backup the latest 10k posts from a Tumblr blog, including text, captions, photos and Tumblr-hosted videos, in under 5 minutes. More data can be captured beyond that if desired, it just takes longer.
If you want to have your blog backed up or saved before The Purge, send me a message. I’ll need the public blog URL (e.g. http://yourname.tumblr.com). If you only want a specific tag archived let me know (e.g. if you only want your original content and not reblogs and tagged your posts with “mine”).
Once the data is stored I’ll give you a link where you can download it. I cannot host the data forever, so please download it, make a copy on a thumb drive or external drive, or back it up up to the cloud.
In the future I’ll build a tool that can take this exported data in the format it’s in and reconstruct a website from that archive. For now I’m just focusing on saving as much of the content as possible before Tumblr nukes it from orbit.
Reblog/spread the word.
naked-yogi