Yo dawg

October 16, 2010 8:18 PM

What's the cleanest way for me to import Tumblr feeds into a second Tumblr blog?

Tumblr doesn't natively support importing Tumblr RSS feeds. They do support importing other RSS feeds. I'm looking for a clean way to move content off one tumblelog, and present it in a format that a second tumblelog will cleanly take in.

posted by Rory Marinich to Technology (2 answers total)

So if you import an RSS feed that happens to be for another Tumblr, it just doesn't do it? Interesting, I didnt know that.

I'm just spitballin' here, and you've probably all ready thought of this, but can you set up a third site--maybe a Wordpress site with an RSS importing plugin--then import that third site's feed into the Tumblr?

Not sure if you (or I!) consider that "clean", however...
posted by Ian A.T. at 11:32 PM on October 16, 2010

You could try a solution with Yahoo pipes. Here are some examples of implementations for importing from other sites like Flickr or even tumblr itself.

These do require a little coding work, I am not sure how comfortable you are with that. When I tried one setup, I could get only new posts, not older ones. So, I am not sure how much you would have to play with it.
posted by ssri at 1:02 AM on October 18, 2010