Shoutbox

Tumblr is a really nice personal blogging platform, designed for posting "snippets" rather than large, journal-like posts. I just signed up yesterday, but was immediately impressed with how lite and streamlined it felt.

I was wondering if it is possible to create a script which posts a text update to a specified Tumblr blog from a WLM window. For example, something like /tumblrpost Hello World, and it updates the Tumblr with Hello World. In essence, this would be turning WLM into a "desktop client" for Tumblr.

And if anyone is REALLY creative, perhaps they can find a way to perform other types of updates(image, audio, video), as well?

Information on the Tumblr API
Some existing programs for interacting with Tumblr from the outside Maybe helpful, maybe not. =P You have to be logged in to see this page.

Also perhaps relevant: Each user is given an email that they can use to text updates to via cell phone. I don't have or use a cellphone, but perhaps this would be useful in carrying out remote updates? Just a thought.

Finally, a bonus idea: a system which reads specified RSS feeds, and notifies you of updates to them the via toast. One might thus specify the RSS feeds of friends' Tumblrs.

I'd attempt it myself, but I've never done a script which interacts with forces outside of WLM, and I've no idea where to begin.

Anyway, if this is possible, I hope someone will consider it. Thanks for reading :3

Maybe try to set up a script to write/send email to that address directly in WLM? That might be feasible although I'm new to the whole WLM Scripting scene. Then set it to run off of /tumblr [stuff to be blogged].

Woah, you're fast!

Yeah, that's what I was thinking =] However, I don't know if that email address can be used to update from anything but a cell phone (again, I don't use a cell phone so I'm unaware of the standards on these types of things.).

Send an email from your computer and see if it's updated. An email is almost always just an email from my experience.

So.. log into your email, send one to tumblr, and check back in a few minutes to see if there's an update.

Woot! Yes, I just tried sending an email from Gmail, and it updated within less than 30 seconds.

It even retained formatting -- I had a raw URL pasted into the email, which Gmail converted into a link. And Tumblr kept it as a link. =D

Now comes the idea of sending an email from a WLM window. I'll do some searching. You may want to edit your first post and the thread title to "[Request] Send email from a chat window" and such.

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Originally posted by Shadowmancer
Now comes the idea of sending an email from a WLM window. I'll do some searching. You may want to edit your first post and the thread title to "[Request] Send email from a chat window" and such.

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did you read the api? its easier just to use their api to add a post. the api for adding a post is a simple POST Request

Awesome, thank you! I'll edit the title.

The neat thing is that this email address allows the full range of content to be sent to the Tumblr--

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Add Tumblr to your phonebook:
Post text, photos, MP3s, or videos (if you have Vimeo enabled) directly from your mobile phone. You can use the Subject line to attach a caption to photos. Remember that anyone can use this address, so keep it private. If you need to, you can reset this address.

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--but I can't think of how these could be sent from WLM. =/ Although, I must say I'd probably only use it to post images; I doubt I'd do audio and video posts very often.

Also, obviously the email is unique for everyone, so there would have to be a way to set it, and have it remember you.

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Originally posted by -dt-

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Originally posted by Shadowmancer
Now comes the idea of sending an email from a WLM window. I'll do some searching. You may want to edit your first post and the thread title to "[Request] Send email from a chat window" and such.

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did you read the api? its easier just to use their api to add a post. the api for adding a post is a simple POST Request

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Oops, didn't see this before I made my reply, I'm helping with dinner over here. =P

Anyway, the API stuff is over my head. Hence this request.
So you're saying the email method is more complex than it has to be?

Heres some code for anyone who wants to build on it.

code:

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/*
TODO:

- make a gui for setting the config values and store them into the registry
- allow sending tumblrs from the conversation window
- design a gui for sending longer tumblrs
*/



/*
    config values
*/

var username = "username";
var email = "email";
var password = "password";

/*
    initialize and send a tumblr
*/
function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart){
    sendTumblr("moo title", "moo body");
}


/*
    Sends a post request to the Tumblr write api as defined here http://www.tumblr.com/api
    It shows a toast on success/fail
*/
function sendTumblr(postTitle, postContent){
    var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://www.tumblr.com/api/write", true);
    xmlhttp.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
           
            if(xmlhttp.status == 201){
                MsgPlus.DisplayToast("tumblr", "Post Added", "", "OnTumblrToastClick", xmlhttp.responseText);
            }else{
                MsgPlus.DisplayToast("tumblr Error", xmlhttp.status + " " + xmlhttp.responseText);
            }
        }         
    };
   
    xmlhttp.send("email=" + encodeURIComponent(email) +"&password=" + encodeURIComponent(password) + "&type=regular&title=" + encodeURIComponent(postTitle) + "&body=" + encodeURIComponent(postContent));   
}


/*
    if the post works and the user clicks the toast that shows, then the post will open
*/
function OnTumblrToastClick(param){
    new ActiveXObject("wscript.shell").run("http://" + username + ".tumblr.com/post/" + param);
}

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Heh.. Just started scripting today. ^^; My bad. Seemed like a good start.. ><.