PHP script to convert tumblr blog articles to jekyll posts, modify the settings then simply run this in your terminal: php tumblr2jekyll.php More on the blog - http://oodavid.com/2013/04/09/convert-from-tumblr-to-jekyll-using-php.html

tumblr2jekyll.php

<?php

	//
	// Settings
	//
		// Blog URL
		$blog		= 'oodavid.tumblr.com';
		// Tumblr API key - register for one here: http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps
		$api_key	= 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
		// Local folder to write to - PHP must be able to write here
		$folder		= '/home/david/Desktop/jekyllposts/';

	//
	// Settings encoding
	//
		$blog		= urlencode($blog);
		$api_key	= urlencode($api_key);

	//
	// Read the number of posts
	//
		$url	= "http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/{$blog}/info?api_key={$api_key}";
		$ch		= curl_init($url);
		curl_setopt_array( $ch, array( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true ) );
		$result	= json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
		$posts	= $result['response']['blog']['posts'];

	//
	// Download and process the posts in batches of 20 - it's an API limit
	//
	for ($n=0; $n<$posts; $n+=20){
		// Read the posts
		$url	= "http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/{$blog}/posts?api_key={$api_key}&limit=20&offset={$n}";
		$ch		= curl_init($url);
		curl_setopt_array( $ch, array( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true ) );
		$result	= json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
		// Loop the posts
		foreach($result['response']['posts'] AS $post){
			if(isset($post['title']) && isset($post['body'])){
				// File-Name
				$date = date('Y-m-d', $post['timestamp']);
				$filename = "{$date}-{$post['slug']}.html";
				// Title
				$title = '"' . str_replace('"', '\"', $post['title']) . '"';
				// Tags
				$tags = $post['tags'] ? "\ntags: \n- " . implode("\n- ", $post['tags']) : '';
				// File-Contents
				$contents = <<<HEREHTML
---
layout: blog
title: {$title}{$tags}
---
{$post['body']}
HEREHTML;
				// Write to file
				$fh = fopen("{$folder}{$filename}", 'c+');
				fwrite($fh, $contents);
			}
		}
	}