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Suddenly a lot of "new follower" notifications here! I cannot imagine why

(BTW, if no one else does it I intend to make a Tumblr importer script once I'm done frantically scraping everything I can, but it would help to have some Ruby examples for DW's API.)

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It actually might, but it’s just not sticking them someplace easily visible? Jekyll Tumblr export should get them, if you want to try that; I think it’s only imageset backup that the API update broke.

(And my exporter’s got them; so, one set of backups of your (public posts’) tags definitely does exist. In my iron grip, and as-yet non-human-readable.)

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I just saw this, I'm really grateful to hear it, my tags are super precious to me. 8( It seemed really strange it wouldn't grab them... someday I will, I dunno, visit, mail a thumb drive, receive a tag-only email, just knowing that they're backed up remotely is a huge pat on my anxious backbrain.

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I plan to start emailing people their text piles once I’ve got my exporter/converter fixed up! I think all your blogs’ raw JSON data (minus the images) was under 100MB in 7z format. I’m going to do HTML and Jekyll output first (because relatively-up-to-date templates already exist), then Dreamwidth and WordPress (because I’m assuming other people are working on those anyway).

The images are obviously a lot bigger; I’m still thinking about the sanest way to do that. Torrent? Mail a DVD-R?