In the first part of this mini-series we requested an for an API key from Tumblr, then we used it to retrieve data and the avatar for a blog. In this concluding part, we’ll retrieve some posts that are a little more complex. Getting posts ... So far our calls have been simple, because there was no json to interate through. But now, because we’re looking for a single post from multiple posts, we need to do a little more to arrive at our data. Our first step is to determine our URL (replace your-api-key with...
Every well known service on the Web has an API we can play with to get its data feed and Tumblr is no exception; the popular blogging platform has a really intuitive API that we can use to get anything from avatars to posts with links and images. In this article I’ll give you a feel for this API and teach you how to make some simple requests. Getting an API key ... If you’re familiar with working with this kind of API, you’ll know that we usually need to create and application and request an API key in order...