does anyone know how to download large gif hunts? there's a specific set of gif hunts that i used to use a lot and the blog that posted them seems to have been abandoned, so i'm hoping to save those gifs before it gets deleted (if it does, i hope it doesn't)
the problem is each post has 100+ gifs so downloading them one by one manually is a process and i just don't have the patience for that x10
the other problem is that the blog has been flagged as nsfw meaning i can't actually open the gif hunt in the url dot tumblr dot com page, making it functionally a dash-only blog even though i know it isn't
i've already tried to open the post in its own tab and save the webpage but it's just not giving me the gifs that way. i can access them via the inspect element console but it won't let me download them from there, which ???? i feel like it should. i can download the html-only source for the page but then i'm having a Time figuring out how to get just the gif urls from that, and then how to like actually download them instead of going one by one. this feels like there's some sort of macro that could be written or some easier way i am somehow missing
help????? this is The andy biersack gif repository set of posts and i dunno what to do lol
so i tried what @nicolemaiines suggested but in the folder, instead of giving me a separate folder with the gif files or just listing them right there, it generated a .DOWNLOAD file ???? which i cannot read, i tried. i tried to save the page using the same method but with internet explorer (i refuse to use its new name) and same thing; with firefox it did give me the actual image files but in the clunkiest way possible and using .webp as an extension (which apparently means i only had the first frame) for most of the gifs. not sure why.
BUT
i just found a roundabout way to do it, for now. my main issue with what @uservicky suggested is that while yes i know where the gif urls are, they're hidden in tumblr's really clunky json formatting due to NPF, so it's there but it still was gonna take too long
today i stumbled on tumblr mirror sites such as tumbex, and i tried playing with that for a bit and found out that you can open the mirrored post even if tumblr has hidden it due to content rules so long as you have the post number and the post still exists. so then i tried opening that and when i downloaded it, what nicolemaiines suggested does in fact work as it should, BUT ALSO the page source is itself readable and it's formatted in an html-friendly way, meaning i can do what i originally wanted to do which is to copy-paste the html into my own tumblr post in my gif hunt dump blog so i can keep that
granted, tumblr now has an image limit per post i believe, iirc it's 30? and that means approx 10 to 20 posts per gif hunt i'm trying to save, but it's a LOT easier
so step by step (in purple what changes according to your post you wanna save):
yoink the post permalink - the one that's like tumblr.com/blogurl/bunchofnumbers/post-title
format the original url you just copied so it's tumbex.com/blogurl.tumblr/post/bunchofnumbers
go nuts i guess lol
if you go into the page source, you gotta scroll down a bit (the post technically appears in the <head></head> section but i don't know if the entire post is there or not, didn't check that closely - that's not the actual body of the webpage)
you'll find the post in what looks like the yellow square above (it's preceded by blog info about who posted it, so like their url, description, pfp, etc.) and then the actual gifs are what's in the red square
if you select the text in that red square, it's got some escape characters you wanna delete, marked in red here
{"url":"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mbid64mx4d1rt6nee.gif","height":375,"width":500,"type":"image"},
and some information you don't need, so just delete everything marked in red here:
{"url":"https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbid64mx4d1rt6nee.gif","height":375,"width":500,"type":"image"},
so it's just this:
https://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbid64mx4d1rt6nee.gif
and you get a proper gif that you can either open in a new tab or post on tumblr by pasting the url itself:
and that's it :)
