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Get the Image link of a Tumblr post

I was trying trying IFTTT and wanted to save my Tumblr liked image post to Dropbox. Searched Google for it but found nothing I can get direct image link with post url. So I decided to scrape post html to get link.

TIP: When you have to scrape and web page think about its mobile version, they are always light weighted and with simple dom structures.

Tumblr provides a mobile version for their blogs, you can open this my simply putting /mobile at  the end of home page url. So its its xyz.tumblr.com, mobile version ll be at xyz.tumblr.com/mobile.

Here is simple PHP function that returns the image permalink by post url.


function getImg($postUrl){
	$url = explode("/", $postUrl);
	$data = file_get_contents("htt"."p://".$url[2]."/mobile/post/".$url[4]);
	preg_match_all('',$data,$matches,PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
	return $matches[1][0];
}
Hope this ll help you.

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