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Good thing Derpibooru exists.

I have a personal archive most of it I got from here though

@Zaknel  
If the DNP is of the nature “I only want this on my tumblr”, there is the obvious matter that the DNP reasoning is invalid; in general, don’t worry too much, we’ll just delete DNP stuff if we really have to, as it’s quite important the art is saved somewhere.  
I was using pbooru earlier for some stuff and uploading there is kind of a hassle (file upload only, no reverse search, and no description field); try and find somewhere better if you can.

@The Frowning Pony  
Added, it creates a folder containing a whole setup to recreate the entire blog with html files and the assets used.
 
Also, sadly, the blog I used it on (mars-venusgore) is expressly DNP here, so it will remain a local archive; I would recommend some others do the same for less likelihood images are lost in the event marsminer has no plans to migrate them.

I will see what I can do.
 
If I slip up and post art from someone who is DNP, will I be forgiven?

@The Smiling Pony  
I will play my part in saving the art on Tumblr and joining the protest to end the disappearing of the art!

Here’s an article to help those who want to download blogs from Tumblr.  
https://stevivor.com/features/guides/download-entire-tumblr-blog/

@Princess Luna  
Possibly. If you can try it out and it works, feel free to add it to the first post. Note that a CLI may not be the most user friendly for a lot of people.

@The Smiling Pony  
Is this program not also effective for these purposes?

Alright, so aperantly given program seems to have a vay to import blog names via text file, so i’ll try to archive 31dec 2015 and tell you how it went

@The Smiling Pony  

 
Please note that some artists probably don’t know that they can export their blog. It’s incredibly slow because probably lots of people are trying to backup their blogs now, but the good thing about these backups is that they have the original images, not the resized 1280px-wide versions. Sadly you can’t “export” anyone else’s blog like this, only the owner can do it, but if you’re already going to beg to an artist, maybe tell them about this, maybe they’d like to download a copy of their blog before it gets purged, and maybe they’ll be able to share that copy eventually.

@Background Pony #1A91  
I know that there are other archiving efforts going on; for mass archival I cannot assist outside of derpi. There’s also mass uploader for derpi I can point you towards atm.
 
 
@Background Pony #24C9  
If you’re uploading from the tumblr itself, this extension is a one-click uploader that also checks for duplicates before submitting.

Is there a way to check if a blog is already fully uploaded here other than manually checking each page?  
( This needs to be saved for instance, an early piece of fandom history )
 
€dit: This might help http://hotdiggedydemon.wikia.com/wiki/Ask_Jappleack

I can try to help out as time allows. I’ll check that scraping program later.
 
EDIT: Will try to double check selbbap’s blog first. Confirmed.

@The Frowning Pony  
Alright. For those that do this, is there a way to mass upload them, or at least place them somewhere? Preferably not just some torrent, where months later it becomes “dead”.

@Background Pony #1A91  

 
 
*Yes! See this program

К сожалению, не сижу на Тумблере, а вся память на компе уже забита картинками из Дерпибу! Так что мне придется сидеть сложа руки((

StSyaN  
Is there an automated way to scrap pics like this?

For now Tumblr already removed almost all nsfw posts from viewing. Recognisible example — nsfw.kevinsano.com [NSFW]. He used to make a posts each month for a very long time. You can look at the archive and notice huge gaps [NSFW].
 
~~HOWEVER, there is still hope: all the posts are still accesible via direct link and dashboard if you subscribed. You may “jump” to date by:  

As many of you know, Tumblr has decided to ban all NSFW content by December 17 2018. That means a lot of art will vanish forever.
 
Please help archive as much art as possible before that date by going through the list HERE. Note that blogs listed there aren’t just NSFW pony stuff, but ones that have any pony art and may post NSFW, so don’t discriminate as long as it’s pony!
 
Note that Tumblr has already begun hiding images. You may need to go to https://tumblr.com/blog/BLOG-NAME-HERE or the blog’s archive or directly beg to the artist; chances are a lot of content has already been lost forever, but there’s still time to save some before it’s over.
 
If possible, reply here noting whether you’re actively going through a blog or are sure that one is already fully archived.
 
Yes, this is a fairly big undertaking, and a very annoying. But that’s why we need the help of everybody that can.
 
Guide on how to download tumblr blogs
 
List of all tumblr’s uploaded from onto derpi  
Plus unique domains that point to tumblr  
Google spreadsheets for organizing purposes
 
Addendum: Help me keep a list of all the places artists are spreading off to here
 
*Courtesy of DBot  
Torrent file with the NSFW tumblr’s listed is here  
Torrent file with the story tumblr’s listed is here  
The torrent files are large, some clients will not support it.
 

 
 
DO NOT DISCUSS THE TUMBLR ISSUE HERE  
I will remove all posts discussing tumblr and not the image archiving