How to export your Tumblr site

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How to export your Tumblr site

You will need to have Ruby installed and the knowledge of how to run commands from the terminal.

1. Install the jekyll-import gem.

    gem install jekyll-import
   

2. Save the included export.rb to an empty folder.

3. Open export.rb with a text editor and define the website to export under "url".

4. Run the script from your terminal with ruby export.rb.

You should now have a very basic _posts/ and tumblr_files/ folder.

export.rb

require "jekyll-import";

JekyllImport::Importers::Tumblr.run({
    "url"            => "https://mysite.tumblr.com",
    "format"         => "html", # "md" misses links and images etc
    "grab_images"    => true,
    "add_highlights" => false,
    "rewrite_urls"   => false # `true` breaks build
})

Check out the related guide on how to export and host your Tumblr site, too!