Post-to-Tumblr class [complete + uploaded to OpenProcessing]

hndrsn6

Post-to-Tumblr class [complete + uploaded to OpenProcessing]

in Library and Tool Development • 2 years ago

24th Aug 2011 - TumblrP5 class now supports image data uploads, along with all other posts except video and audio data uploads. Available for download from http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=34381

Hope it's useful to somebody :)

Hacked together this class today, hope it's of use to somebody. It's probably a little messy so if anybody has any suggestions how to tidy it up, or if they want examples, want to report bugs, or ask a question, fire away! I was initially trying (and failing) to figure out how to post image data from processing to tumblr, which would probably be the most interesting thing if I could include it in this class. If anybody could suggest how to accomplish this, I would be very grateful!

~~At the moment it supports writing every type of post to tumblr, except data uploads.~~
~~Photos/Videos/Audio can be posted from an online URL source~~
~~Uses the API v1, so no Oauth required - just a username and a password~~

/*
** TUMBLRWRITE CLASS 0.9
** Write posts to Tumblr from Processing
** Data uploads not yet supported
**
** Henderson[Six] http://hendersonsix.com
** CC-BY-SA 2.0
*/
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
class TumblrWrite {
String userEmail;
String password;
String data;
String encType = "UTF-8"; //encode URLs according to UTF-8 format for tumblr
//CONSTRUCTOR
TumblrWrite(String _userEmail, String _password) throws IOException {
userEmail = _userEmail;
password = _password;
//prepare data string for POST request with email + password (required for each post request)
data = URLEncoder.encode("email", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(userEmail, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("password", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(password, encType);
}
/****************** SET-UP POST METHODS *******************/
//TEXT
void textPost(String title, String body) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Posting regular text...");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("type", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("regular", encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("title", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(title, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("body", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(body, encType);
}
//PHOTO - Embeds a photo from a URL source
void photoLinkPost(String caption, String url, String clickThroughUrl) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Posting a photo link...");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("type", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("photo", encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("source", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(url, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("caption", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(caption, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("click-through-url", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(clickThroughUrl, encType);
}
//QUOTE
void quotePost(String quote, String source) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Posting a quote...");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("type", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("quote", encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("quote", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(quote, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("source", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(source, encType);
}
//LINK
void linkPost(String name, String url, String description) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Posting a link...");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("type", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("link", encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("name", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(name, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("url", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(url, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("description", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(description, encType);
}
//CONVERSATION
void conversationPost(String title, String conversation) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Posting a conversation...");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("type", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("conversation", encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("title", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(title, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("conversation", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(conversation, encType);
}
//VIDEO - Supply either a youtube URL or html embed code for url parameter
void videoLinkPost(String title, String url, String caption) throws IOException {
String.out.println("Posting an embedded video...");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("type", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("video", encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("source", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(url, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("caption", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(caption, encType);
}
//AUDIO - Supply source url of audio file
void audioLinkPost(String title, String url, String caption) throws IOException {
String.out.println("Posting embedded audio...");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("type", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("audio", encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("externally-hosted-url", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(url, encType);
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("caption", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(caption, encType);
}
/****************** COMMON POST METHODS ******************/
//A short description of the application making the request for tracking and statistics, such as "John's Widget 1.0".
//Must be 64 or fewer characters.
void setGenerator(String generator) throws IOException {
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("generator", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(generator, encType);
}
//The post date, if different from now, in the blog's timezone.
//Most unambiguous formats are accepted, such as '2007-12-01 14:50:02'
//Dates must not be in the future.
void setDate(String date) throws IOException {
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("date", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(date, encType);
}
//Whether the post is private.
//Private posts only appear in the Dashboard or with authenticated links, and do not appear on the blog's main page.
void setPrivacy(boolean privacy) throws IOException {
if (privacy==true) {
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("private", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("1", encType);
}
else {
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("private", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("0", encType);
}
}
// Comma-separated list of post tags.
void setTags(String tags) throws IOException {
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("tags", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(tags, encType);
}
//html or markdown
void setFormat(String format) throws IOException {
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("format", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(format, encType);
}
//Post this to a secondary blog on your account, e.g. mygroup.tumblr.com (for public groups only)
void setGroup(String myGroup) throws IOException {
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("group", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(myGroup, encType);
}
//A custom string to appear in the post's URL: myblog.tumblr.com/post/123456/this-string-right-here.
//Max 55 characters
void setSlug(String slug) throws IOException{
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("slug", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(slug, encType);
}
// One of the following values: published, draft, submission, queue, publish-on=YYYY-MM-DDT13:34:00
void setPostState(String state) throws IOException{
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("state", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(state, encType);
}
//(optional, ignored on edits)
//One of the following values, if the tumblelog has Twitter integration enabled:
//no (default), auto (post summary), custom message
void sendToTwitter(String state) throws IOException{
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("send-to-twitter", encType) + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(state, encType);
}
/****************** SEND POST METHOD ******************/
void sendPost() throws IOException {
//set up http connection
URL tumblr = new URL("http://tumblr.com/api/write");
HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection) tumblr.openConnection();
http.setDoOutput(true);
http.setRequestMethod("POST");
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(http.getOutputStream());
//connect and write data to tumblr
http.connect();
out.write(data);
out.flush();
//get status of post request
//400 - multiple errors
//403 - incorrect username/password
//201 - success! created!
System.out.println(http.getResponseCode());
System.out.println(http.getResponseMessage());
//close OutputStreamWriter
out.close();
}
}

Replies(6)

hndrsn6

Re: Post-to-Tumblr class

2 years ago

Can now perform data uploads for images. Currently testing so will post the new additions soon.

fiveagon

Re: Post-to-Tumblr class

2 years ago

Awesome! This will save me so much time.

What I want is to have a sketch just for uploading to Tumblr. I want to open the sketch, open sketchfolder, drag images into the data folder, and then run the sketch. The sketch will turn images into queued photo posts in the tumblr queue, using the filename of the image as the photo post caption (without the .png extension).

You think this would be possible?

hndrsn6

Re: Re: Post-to-Tumblr class

2 years ago

Yeah that's possible, you'll have to play around with it a bit but with the updated class I'll post later the basics should be there to get you started. I'm not sure how many you want to upload but it's possible that the Tumblr API will limit how many times you can upload images in quick succession - I'm not sure what that limit is though, or even if there definitely is a limit at all.

I will upload the class to open processing soon. The data uploads require the apache commons httpclient, which most users wouldn't have installed on their system, but I'm thinking about converting the class to run with that as it will make integration between all the different kinds of posts much smoother. I will package the apache commons httpclient .jar with the openprocessing upload later, so it should work fine when downloaded correctly.

hndrsn6

Re: Post-to-Tumblr class [complete + uploaded to OpenProcessing]

2 years ago

Updated original post with download link to TumblrP5 class.

Makio135

Re: Post-to-Tumblr class [complete + uploaded to OpenProcessing]

2 years ago

Hi hndrsn6,

it seems to be exactly what i need for a project (i'll let you know when complete) & It works great!

Thx a lot.

fiveagon

Re: Post-to-Tumblr class [complete + uploaded to OpenProcessing]

2 years ago

Sweet, got mine working. I can queue up every image in the sketch's data folder with the press of a button. Awesome, thank you.

I made a slight modification to TumblrWrite.photoDataPost to take a File object instead of a path string.

TumblrWrite tumblrWrite;
File[] imageFilesToUpload;

final String username = "username@mail.com";
final String password = "password";

void setup() {
    try {
        tumblrWrite = new TumblrWrite();
    }
    catch(IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    imageFilesToUpload = new File(sketchPath, "data").listFiles();
    println(imageFilesToUpload);
    noLoop();
}

void keyTyped() {
    switch(key) {
    case 'u':
        massPhotoUpload();
        exit();
        break;
    }
}

void massPhotoUpload() {
    for (File imageFile : imageFilesToUpload) {
        String filename = imageFile.getName();
        if (filename.endsWith(".png")) {
            filename = filename.substring(0, filename.length()-4);
            uploadPhotoDataPost(imageFile, filename);
        }
    }
    println("massPhotoUpload() complete!");
}

void uploadPhotoDataPost(File img, String caption) {
    try {
        tumblrWrite.init(username, password);
        tumblrWrite.photoDataPost(img, caption);
        tumblrWrite.setPostState("queue");
        tumblrWrite.sendToTwitter("no");
        tumblrWrite.sendData();
        println(img.getName());
    }
    catch(IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

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