Quick and dirty script to copy data from one Tumblr to another.

create_test_blog.php

<?php

/**
 * Quick and dirty script to copy data from one Tumblr to another.
 * Useful for setting up a test blog for theme development.
 *
 * @author Ken Mickles
 */

// the blog to copy from
define('TUMBLR_SRC', $_ENV['TUMBLR_SRC']);
// the blog to copy to
define('TUMBLR_BLOG', $_ENV['TUMBLR_BLOG']);
// login data
define('TUMBLR_EMAIL', $_ENV['TUMBLR_EMAIL']);
define('TUMBLR_PASSWORD', $_ENV['TUMBLR_PASSWORD']);

// turn on error reporting
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

// fetch tumblr data
$url = 'http://'.TUMBLR_SRC.'.tumblr.com/api/read/json';
$response = file_get_contents($url);

if ( empty($response) ) {
	die("Received empty response from Tumblr!\n");
}

// parse JSON
$response = trim(preg_replace('/^var tumblr_api_read = /', '', trim($response)), ';');
$data = json_decode($response, 1);

// process posts
foreach ( $data['posts'] as $post ) {

	// see http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api#api_write for details
	$url = 'http://www.tumblr.com/api/write';

	$post_data = array(
		'email' => TUMBLR_EMAIL,
		'password' => TUMBLR_PASSWORD,
		'group' => TUMBLR_BLOG,
		'type' => $post['type'],
		'generator' => "Tumblrtestr",
		'date' => $post['date'],
	);
	
	switch ( $post['type'] ) {
		
		case 'regular':
			$post_data['title'] = $post['regular-title'];
			$post_data['body'] = $post['regular-body'];
			break;
		
		case 'photo':
			$post_data['source'] = $post['photo-url-500'];
			$post_data['caption'] = $post['photo-caption'];
			$post_data['click-through-url'] = $post['url'];
			break;
			
		case 'quote':
			$post_data['quote'] = $post['quote-text'];
			$post_data['source'] = $post['quote-source'];
			break;
			
		case 'link':
			$post_data['name'] = $post['link-text'];
			$post_data['url'] = $post['link-url'];
			$post_data['description'] = $post['link-description'];
			break;
			
		case 'conversation':
		case 'video':
		case 'audio':
			// skipped cause jacki doesn't have these
			break;
		
	}

	// make the request
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);	
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);	
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post_data));
	$response = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

	
	// if we got a post_id back, it worked. add the url to the list
	if ( is_numeric($response) ) {
		echo "Created new post: {$response}\n";
	}
	else {
		echo "Tumblr API error: {$response}\n";
	}
}

?>