I think we can all agree that Tumblr is lame now, joining the ranks of Facebook and Instagram - organizations who regularly censor content on a platform that was designed with freedom of expression and information in mind. As an art lover, I've been worried that the rise of corporate censorship would affect my favorite artists, so I decided to start working on backing up content locally. Here's what I had to do:
First I logged into Tumblr, opened Chrome Dev Tools, went to the Network tab, and dug around until I found the endpoint they use for their infinite scrolling. At the time of this writing it started with indash_blog
. By right clicking I was able to Copy as Fetch.