The result is that you can visit a link like this (NSFW), and Feedly will give you what it has saved of the Tumblr blog back in 2014, (on July 25 at 14:25 UTC).Īnd because the data Feedly provides is meant to be worked with using machines (it's JSON), it's very easy to write scripts to massively download lost Tumblr images. And to put the cherry on top, when a webpage in an RSS feed is deleted by the website (such as Tumblr deleting posts) Feedly doesn't delete the saved data from its platform. Among the things Feedly saves of Tumblr pages are the image URLs, which is precisely the things we are looking for.Īnd to make things absolutely more interesting, Feedly decides to make these data publicly available, via its programming API interface. Some people use Feedly to subscribe to Tumblr pages. And Feedly does this by storing a simplified copy of the webpages in an RSS feed, as well as some metadata. įeedly takes URLs like this and make them look modern like Google News. Tumblr supports RSS, which is reachable at the blog’s URL + /rss, like. RSS is a web standard, existed long before things like Pocket and Google Newsstands, that let you subscribe to and see updates from a website much like how most people do it today on, say, Apple News. Most posts removed under Tumblr’s NSFW content ban are removed in this manner, meaning that there are still a lot of NSFW content on Tumblr’s server - we just don't have a good way to find/index them. What makes it so frustrating, then, is that, once Tumblr decides to either remove a post (“Oops, there's nothing here”) or mark one as NSFW (“This Tumblr may contain sensitive media”), it becomes very difficult to find out the direct image URL, since it's all hashes like 5cc472f5. (If you’d like an actual example: this post is marked NSFW, effectively not viewable, but its image at is still viewable (NSFW: actual gay porn, be warned) This means that even if you can't see the post anymore, you can still see the image, by directly visiting its URL to the Tumblr server, the URL that begins with 64., if you still have the URL. Now, let's say Tumblr has decided to remove this post, which means that you can no longer see it using the post’s URL (that begins with the blog’s name, in this case it's ).īut a lot of time, when Tumblr removes a post, it doesn’t go all the way to delete the photos in it from the servers. The post includes an image, which has the URL . Say you have a Tumblr post: (SFW, found randomly on trending). A simpler explanation of what’s going on:
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