cedriczirtacic / tumbperl

🔮A Perl client/module for the Tumblr API.

tumbperl.

tumbperl. (or Tumblr::API) is an unofficial Perl client for the Tumblr API.

Installation

Manual

To install the module just copy the Tumblr/ folder to your common perl libraries directory. For example:

$ perl -V:archlib
archlib='/usr/lib/perl5';

Then, as a superuser o someone similar, copy the dir:

$ cp -r Tumblr/ /usr/lib/perl5

Test if you can successfully load the module:

$ perl -e 'use Tumblr::API;'

Using Module::Build

You might want to run the installation as a superuser.

$ perl Build.PL
$ ./Build install

Examples

Get information from user:

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use strict;
use warnings;
 
use Tumblr::API;
 
my $tumblr = Tumblr::API->new(
       consumer_key    => 'your_consumer_key',
       consumer_secret => 'your_consumer_secret',
       base_hostname   => 'your_blog_hostname',
       );
 
my $blog_info= $tumblr->get_info();
if($blog_info->{meta}->{msg} eq "OK"){
        printf "This blog has %d posts\n", $blog_info->{response}->{blog}->{posts};
        exit 0;
}else{
        print STDERR "Error getting blog info.\n";
        exit 1;
}

Dependencies

List of dependencies needed by this module:

• JSON
• Net::OAuth

Bugs

For bugs or related mail me.

Author

Cedric Zirtacic (cicatriz)