Tumblr, reblogs are downloaded as well. (bug or not?)

[yomanbest]

My thanks for the creators of this beautiful tool. Lately my tumblr blog URL downloads contain not only original posts, but reblogs as well, which I haven't seen happening before, but I'm not sure if its a bug or not. My current version is 1.1.1. Can provide logs if needed.

[Hrxn]

Not a bug, I'd say. These are the same reblogs you would see when visiting that blog on Tumblr in your browser, right?

Anyway, gallery-dl gets whatever is returned by the API as posts, so this is intentional. Although it should be possible to add as an additional feature, filtering out reblogs.

[yomanbest]

Decided to double-check my already downloaded galleries. It seems that you're right ; I did find reblogs there as well.

Well, I guess this is a feature request now ??

Anyway, thanks for the quick answer, have a nice day.

[mikf]

I'm not entirely certain about the default value for this option, so I just wanted to ask someone who actually uses/knows Tumblr: should reblogs rather be included (how it has been) or excluded (like d235f68 implements) by default?

[yomanbest]

I'd say reblogs should be excluded by default because different content gets mixed along the blog-original content, which, at least for me, is a no-no. Ex.: Downloading a blog full of kitten photos only to see reblogged posts of toy-cars, or something, in the download folder.

[Hrxn]

To be honest, I'd argue otherwise.
You are right about the mixed content (depending on the blog / the Tumblr user), and that is something you would potentially not want to download.

But the reblogged stuff is what you see when visiting the blog in question in your browser.
And it seems more reasonable to me that gallery-dl gets you what you can see in the browser, by default.

But I'm not necessarily against this change, don't get me wrong. For me personally, both would be fine.
My gallery-dl.conf is at some 490 lines right now, as far as I know, so adding just one more setting would not make any more difference for me 😄

[yomanbest]

I kind of agree of you, but I was mostly thinking of artist blogs, that reblog art from others as well, rather than a normal post blog. You would expect to see their art only, when the download is completed, rather than having mixed art from different unknown sources.

But yes, in the end it's all about the blog type. In my case, I only download artist blogs and I don't really appreciate ending up with mixed art without a clear signtaure or source.
Imho this issue could be solved by asking the users what type of blogs they download mostly.
To finally end this long reply, I agree that reblogs are a crucial part of tumblr itself and in the end I'm good with whatever choice mikf makes, having an option to filter them out is good enough for me.

[mikf]

I agree with HRXN's point in that, by default, you would expect to download all posts of a Tumblr user, reblog or not, as this is what you see when visiting with your browser. Including reblogs by default has also always been a "feature" (intentional or not), so I would rather want to keep it this way.

[KaMyKaSii]

@mikf so we will not have any parameters to skip reblogs?

[mikf]

There is extractor.tumblr.reblogs, implemented in d235f68 as mentioned above. Set it to false to skip reblogged posts.