Import your loved tracks into tumblr (or just about anywhere)
*** UPDATE 3/27/09 After some experimentation, I am not happy with either a pipes solution or using a feed of twitter search results (described below). The best solution, I think, would be to use the tumblr API to generate the posts. That would allow me to include pictures, or other media to make the tumblr posts more than just tweets in tumblr. Any ideas are welcome, but this one may take some time, so please be patient! ***
*** UPDATE 2/26/09 Several users (myself included) are seeing some strange formatting problems when following this process - I will work on getting a yahoo pipe togather that fixes these problems. Stay tuned… ***
A user asked if there is a way to import your lastfmlovetweets into tumblr without having all of your tweets imported.
My first thought was to use yahoo pipes, but then I realizes that theres a much easier way that anyone can setup in just a few minutes.
Basically you want to do a search on twitter, and then grab the feed for that search and import the search results into tumblr. Make sense? Here are the steps broken down: (This assumes your tweets have the hashtags #lastfm #love - if they don’t you will have to make a search to suit your format.)
1. Go twitter’s search and enter the following search (using your twitter username instead of pootytang): #lastfm #love from:pootytang
2. Click on ‘search’ to get to the results screen.
3. Grab the feed for that query. (Right click on ‘Feed for this query’ and select ‘Copy link location’)
4. In another tab or window go to your tumblr dashboard and click on ‘customize’ and then ‘Feeds’
5. Paste the twitter ‘Feed for this query’ link from step 3 into the ‘Feed URL’ box.
6. You can decide whether to import as links, links with summaries, or Text without titles.
This process can be used to get your loved tracks pretty much anywhere that you can get an rss feed, so play around with it, and have fun!
If you do import your loved tracks into a tumblr blog, or anywhere else, please let me know in the comments of this post, as I would love to take a look!
Happy lastfmlovetweeting!
Peter
1 year ago