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Can I find a list of subscribers or follow Tumblr using the API or other ways?

The Tumblr API supports basic reading of content, but I have not yet found a way to get either a list of subscribers or a list of people you follow. The API seems to only return the number of followers. The documentation contains a block that can show who you are following, which is closest to what I want.

My question is: given the user's email address and password, is there any way to find any of these lists? You may need some background work.

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To answer my own question:

While this was not possible with the Tumblr API earlier, the new release of API v2 now supports both types of information.

/followers and /user/following are the appropriate commands. They return JSON objects that list blogs that follow the user or what the user follows. They also seem to require OAUTH access, as this is not publicly available information.

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I am looking for the same thing, and one idea I came up with is a specific Tumblr user to create a custom page with the following settings and code.

  • Page URL: _____. tumblr.com/ following.json
  • Page Type: Custom Layout
  • Show link to this page: not checked

Custom HTML:

 {block:Following}[ {block:Followed} { "name": "{FollowedName}", "title": "{FollowedTitle}", "url" : "{FollowedURL}", "portrait": { "16": "{FollowedPortraitURL-16}", "24": "{FollowedPortraitURL-24}", "30": "{FollowedPortraitURL-30}", "40": "{FollowedPortraitURL-40}", "48": "{FollowedPortraitURL-48}", "64": "{FollowedPortraitURL-64}", "96": "{FollowedPortraitURL-96}", "128": "{FollowedPortraitURL-128}" } }, {/block:Followed} {} ] {/block:Following}

So I'm just going to visit, i.e. http://arvn.tumblr.com/following.json But I'm still looking for other alternatives.

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The only way I could think of is to clear the content from Tumblr.com using a kind of script that knew where to look for the names.

This is not ideal, because if Tumblr changes its code, then your system crashes, but I hope this is a little better than not having it at all. If the API says this does not exist, I don’t think there is any way to do it otherwise.

You can email support@tumblr.com and request it. Who knows, maybe you will get your desire. They are really good people.

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