🔍 Tumblr Search Scraper - Extract Tumblr Blogs

Search and scrape Tumblr blogs from a keyword query. Extract clean, structured blog metadata (name, title, description, avatar, theme) plus the latest post details (summary, tags, engagement) and media (videos/images). Great for market research, creator discovery, and content analysis.

📋 Table of Contents

• 🚀 Features
• 🎯 Use Cases
• ⚡ Quick Start
• 📊 Input Parameters
• 📤 Output
• ❓ FAQ

🚀 Features

🧩 Data extraction

• ✅ Blog profile - blogName, blogTitle, blogUrl, description, avatarUrl
• ✅ Blog settings - NSFW/Adult, ask enabled, anonymous asks, messaging, subscribe
• ✅ Theme details - header image + basic theme colors
• ✅ Latest post - summary, date, tags, notes/likes/reblogs
• ✅ Media scraping - Extracts video URLs and image URLs from latest post content (latestPostMedia)

🎯 Use Cases

Use Case	Description	Benefits
Creator discovery	Find Tumblr blogs about a niche/topic	Discover creators + communities
Market research	Analyze blog descriptions & themes	Identify trends and positioning
Content analysis	Inspect latest post summaries/tags	Understand what creators publish
Media discovery	Collect video URLs & posters	Build media datasets for review

⚡ Quick Start

1️⃣ Basic run

{
  "query": "photography",
  "maxResults": 20
}

2️⃣ Find blogs related to videos

{
  "query": "video",
  "maxResults": 50
}

📊 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Default
query	String	✅	Tumblr search keyword	photography
maxResults	Integer	❌	Maximum blogs to scrape (20-100)	20

📤 Output

Each dataset item represents one blog + its latest post summary/media (when available).

🧾 Blog item (example)

{
  "blogName": "smallpwbbles",
  "blogTitle": "SmallPwbbles",
  "blogUrl": "https://www.tumblr.com/smallpwbbles",
  "blogDirectUrl": "https://smallpwbbles.tumblr.com/",
  "description": "Pebs/Pebbles, she/her Hey! welcome to my blog...",
  "avatarUrl": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/.../s512x512u_c1/...png",
  "isNsfw": false,
  "isAdult": false,
  "askEnabled": true,
  "askAnon": true,
  "canMessage": true,
  "canSubscribe": false,
  "headerImage": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/...png",
  "backgroundColor": "#B8E2CD",
  "titleColor": "#444444",
  "avatarShape": "circle",
  "latestPostId": "802772482125955072",
  "latestPostUrl": "https://smallpwbbles.tumblr.com/post/...",
  "latestPostDate": "2025-12-12 23:51:38 GMT",
  "latestPostSummary": "I don’t even like, have the capacity...",
  "latestPostTags": ["tadc", "tadc spoilers"],
  "latestPostNoteCount": 6457,
  "latestPostLikeCount": 5909,
  "latestPostReblogCount": 527,
  "latestPostMedia": [
    {
      "type": "video",
      "provider": "tumblr",
      "videoUrl": "https://va.media.tumblr.com/..._720.mp4",
      "width": 1920,
      "height": 1080,
      "posterUrl": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/..._frame1.jpg"
    }
  ]
}

❓ FAQ

Q: Does it scrape video URLs from posts?

A: Yes. If the latest post contains a video block (like the example), it will be included in latestPostMedia with videoUrl and posterUrl.

Q: Why some items have empty latestPostMedia?

A: Not every latest post contains media blocks, or return only text for that post.

Q: How many blogs can I scrape?

A: Up to 100 per run (controlled by maxResults).

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🏷️ Tags

tumblr scraper, tumblr search, tumblr blogs, tumblr blog discovery, tumblrcreator discovery, tumblr video scraper, tumblr media scraper, tumblr market research, tumblr content analysis, tumblr apify actor

Get Started Now

Ready to extract Tumblr blogs?

1. Add one or more Tumblr blogs in query (UC...)
2. Set max blogs per channel (maxResults) if you want a limit
3. Click "Start" to run the actor
4. View results in clean table views
5. Export data in your preferred format
6. Click "Try for free" to test the actor

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