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This plugin allows you to export images from Lightroom directly to your Tumblr account.
This plugin works in Lightroom 5 and Lightroom 4.
The same download works for both Windows and Mac. See the box to the upper right for the download link link (in orange) and installation instructions.
After downloading, installing, and enabling the plugin (download link is in the orange box, in the upper-right of this page; install instructions are here), you can activate the Tumblr export by clicking on the Export Dialog's masthead, as illustrated here.
You can add additional functionality to the Tumblr export (and to all exports) with export-filter plugins. I have a variety of them on my Lightroom Goodies page related to Geoencoding, support, metadata management, running external apps, automatic snapshot creation, Creative Commons licensing, etc.
Availability
This plugin is distributed as “donationware”. I have chosen to make it available for free — everyone can use it forever, without cost of any kind — but unless registered, its functionality is somewhat reduced after six weeks.
Registration is done via PayPal, and if you choose to register, it costs the minimum 1-cent PayPal fee; any amount you'd like to add beyond PayPal's sliding fees as a gift to me is completely optional, and completely appreciated.
Note: a Lightroom major upgrade, such as from Lr3 to Lr4, de-registers the plugin in the upgraded version, thus requiring (if you want to maintain registration) a new (1-cent if you like) registration code in the upgraded version. It makes for a hassle every couple of years, I know. Sorry. See this note for details.
For details on plugin registration and on how I came into this hobby of Lightroom plugin development, see my Plugin Registration page.
Version History
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| 20130520.22 |
Added the ability in Lr5 to export images even if the master image file is not available, so long as there's a smart preview available. |
| 20130501.21 | Update for Lr5 |
| 20130412.20 | Build system update. |
| 20130328.18 | Fixed a possible plugin crash in Lr2 that might happen if the remote site's servers are failing. |
| 20130302.17 | Make authentication a bit more robust. |
| 20130225.16 | Fixing a boo-boo in yesterday's update. |
| 20130224.15 | Sending keywords with the image is now optional. |
| 20130220.14 |
Added support for some new template tokens: FlagStatus (requires Lr4.1 or later), and for Lr3 and later, a bunch of IPTC extended metadata: AdditionalModelInfo, CodeOfOrgShown, DigImageGUID, Event, ImageSupplierImageId, MinorModelAge, ModelAge, ModelReleaseID, ModelReleaseStatus, NameOfOrgShown, PersonShown, PlusVersion, PropertyReleaseID, PropertyReleaseStatus, and SourceType. |
| 20130209.13 | More build-system maintenance |
| 20130206.12 | Tweak for my registration system |
| 20130111.10 |
Added the ability to set the post date to the photo date. The caption-preset UI was ugly... made it better (I think). |
| 20130101.9 |
Added the ability to use caption presets. Keywords marked in Library for export are now sent as image tags, and you can add extra tags as well in the export dialog. |
| 20121213.8 | Added the ability to include a clickthrough link when uploading a photo |
| 20121126.7 | Try to work around a logging problem one user has. |
| 20121126.6 |
Plugin was unwittingly overriding the blog's auto-tweet setting. Fixed. |
| 20121114.5 |
Added the ability to automatically upload only those images not yet uploaded and/or modified since last upload. Fixed an error that popped up during export if the plugin's unlimited trial had ended. |
| 20121113.4 | Added the ability to set a new post as private/draft/queue. |
| 20121016.3 |
Realized a bit late that because Tumblr wants the entire upload package HMAC-SHA1 signed (as opposed to just the non-image-data parts like most upload destinations), the raw HMAC-SHA1 routines in pure Lua that I wrote years ago to handle short hundred-byte handshaking just won't cut it for multi-megabyte full-image uploads. I've found a way around it for Lr4, but it's not possible to fix in Lr3, so I have to pull support for Lr3. Note that Tumblr's photo-upload limit is 5MB, so if the image is larger than that, bail before even trying. |
| 20121014.2 | Added a help dialog when encountering the mysterious 'handle in the wrong state' error. |
| 20121010.1 | Initial Public Release. |
I’ve tried your tumblr export plugin — the one I was using so far to publish directly from LR is now broken due to a change in Tumblr API.
It works, even if publication takes a very large amount of time (much more than with my previous plugin).
Some improvements that would be very welcome: possibility to add to the queue instead of direct publication, and possibility to associate keywords — similar to what one can do when publishing directly on Tumblr site.
Just some suggestions. Thank you in any case for your great work!
-Kiting Free, from France
Very glad to see this as an alternative to the other, broken plug-in.
I found the time to upload normal – I processed a 1280px picture at 240 dpi at about the same speed as LR’s native uploader for Flickr.
I too would welcome the use of keywords (from Lightroom would be fine) and also an option to use the caption in Lightroom, perhaps with the alternative to overwrite this in the plug-in. It would be good to be able to upload in draft mode if it is difficult to implement a direct publish day or date.
Thanks again for working on this and I hope these suggestions are of some help.
Howard – Oxford, UK
Great, but needs draft mode!
What is “draft mode”? —Jeffrey
Posts can be saved as drafts on Tumblr rather than made live immediately – it’s one of the options on the ‘publish now’ menu. Its usefulness lies in uploading a batch of pictures for subsequent work in Tumblr, e.g. in adding them to a queue of pictures to be published in a predetermined sequence. (See the other options on the menu – add to queue or publish at a specified time/date.)
Got it. We’ll see whether the plugin garners enough attention to make additional development worthwhile…. —Jeffrey
Thanks for the new publish feature – v useful addition for me!
i have try your export plugin but i’m stop uploading after 75 pictures
have you a solution
thanks
pierre
It doesn’t stop on its own… perhaps Tumblr is having issues, or perhaps you tried uploading only 75 pics
—Jeffrey
The Plug-in is working great.
One thing I have noticed is that images I export with your plug-in do not generate a Tweet automatically, but they do generate a Facebook post automatically. I have both options enabled in my Blog settings, so I am not sure why your export plug-in is not triggering the Tweet option.
A nice feature would be to allow a FB post and Tweet for each export, so that we could manually enable the options.
Thanks,
Brian
The upload API has nothing about FB, but it does have a way to suppress tweets, and it seems that I was doing that. I’ve just pushed a new version that doesn’t. —Jeffrey
Hi Jf, I would like to use your tumblr plug in, but it doesn’t appaer in the plug in option. jf Picasa and other plug ins appear but the tumblr one is not there. Thank you.
You’re looking in the Publish Services area… the Tumblr plugin is an Export plugin…. select the images and click the big “Export” button in the lower left of Library. —Jeffrey
Thank you Jeffrey for you reply…a little question: why only export and not publish…API restriction I suppose.
No, no API restriction… I just don’t want to do the extra work for Publish until I know it’ll be worth it. Very few folks use this plugin, so at this point I’m feeling it was a waste of time to have done it, but we’ll see whether it gets more use in the future…. —Jeffrey
Would it be possible to add a Tag field so that we can tag our photos in the Tumblr system?
Right now just adding #Alaska to the caption does not actually tag it with that.
Thanks,
Brian
I just pushed version .9 that adds Lightroom keywords as tags, and other changes. Happy New Year —Jeffrey
I just got the Tumblr Plugin for Lightroom 4.3. I’ve donate and installed it to the lightroom, but the option don’t appear is their a new update or will their be one soon?
Thanks for From Los Angeles, California
The Tumblr plugin is an Export plugin, so it won’t show up in the Publish list (if that’s where you’re looking). —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
thanks for this great plugin…working smoothly…One question though…How can i export a batch of pictures as a gallery on Tumblr ? Thanks !
You can’t do that with the plugin… as far as I can tell, their API doesn’t support it. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey,
I would happily donate $25 or more for this feature.
Thank you for this and all your other work; almost exactly what I was looking for! Would you consider adding one small feature: the ability to set the Tumblr API’s “date” attribute to match the photo’s Capture Time? This is a feature I rely on to update my baby daughter’s private blog
Regards,
Robin (from the UK)
I can take a look, but unfortunately, Tumblr’s API documentation is really bad in this respect.. they say that there’s a nebulous “date” parameter, but give no information about what format the date should be in, so I’m left with the task of trying every date format I’ve ever heard of until I get lucky with one that works. We’ll see. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey,
In Python, the following worked well for me against the Tumblr v1 API:
>>> import EXIF
>>> f = open(‘IMG_0231.jpg’,'rb’)
>>> tags = EXIF.process_file(f)
>>> tags.get(‘EXIF DateTimeOriginal’).printable
’2012:12:25 15:11:06′
Robin
I’ve gone ahead and pushed a version that supports this. It seems to be working despite Tumblr’s documentation being explicitly wrong. /-: —Jeffrey
Dear Jeffrey,
Jack again. Your great Tumblr plug in works fine, but I’m not able to export Keywords, Caption and Title as well I’m using your Wrangler plugin…Do you have any suggestions? Thank you in advance.
“I’m not able” is not much for me to go on. Perhaps send a log with explicit details? —Jeffrey
Thanks for this update – great to see the export options added here – first impressions v positive!
Hey Jeffery, I have your Zenfolio plugin working fine, but the Tumblr one wont load. I have it set in Lightroom, and the program says its running in the Plug-In Manager, but its not listed in the available publish services aplet? Any ideas?
It’s not a Publish plugin… only Export. —Jeffrey
Hiya, I’m also having the problem of it stopping after 75 photos. I tried again to just upload the remaining photos but it’s saying “bad request”
It’s almost certainly just Tumblr having transitory issues, unless it stops at the same photo every time. —Jeffrey
When exporting 10 images to Tumblr they show up as 10 separate posts. This causes a problem when multiple bloggers are uploading images at the same time. I want to keep my 10 images grouped together in one post. Is there a setting / method for this ? Can’t find it. Love the plugin otherwise. thanks.
Unfortunately, their 3rd-party API allows only single-image uploads. —Jeffrey
I’ve tried to upload photos to Tumblr without lightroom keywords to no avail. It appears that this plugin ignores metadata export settings (including your plugin metadata wrangler). Is there a way to upload photos to Tumblr without lightroom keywords? Thanks.
Good catch. I’ve just pushed a new version that makes it optional. —Jeffrey
Hey Jeff Sorry I posted this in the other place then realised my mistake!!..thanks for this plug in Just joined Tumblr as everyone else is haha…problem is when i try to set it up try to authenticate with Tumblr I get a 400 error..tried it several times with no luck..any suggestions??? thanks mate!!
After encountering the error, please send a log —Jeffrey
Hi Jeff. I was the first to post on your plugin.
I just want to say that I am now a fully happy user of your plugin. It is just what I needed!
Thanks for your good work!
-KitingFree, from France
Great plugin, thank you! Did I miss something or does the plugin only work for strictly image posts? I was hoping to include an image within a post that has a title to the post. Thank you.
It uses the photo-post API, which allows for a caption and tags and a link, but apparently no title. —Jeffrey
Hi
Is there a way to publish multiple photos into a single article? I use Tumblr as a blogging platform, and like to post blog entries with multiple photos and quite a long text description.
I also noticed pressing enter in the text box publishes the article rather than adding a line feed. You then get the same text box repeated under different photos, all as different posts.
Tumblr’s API for third-party apps like my plugin allows only single-photo photo posts, so no luck there. The “pressing enter launches the export” is a nasty feature of Lightroom that’s difficult to get around, so that’s a bummer too. Sorry. —Jeffrey
Tumblr: another very useful tool, thank you. I can’t find a way to publish to an existing blog so that I can the images as part of that blog. Am I missing something?
thanks.
Jim
You should be able to post photos to any blog associated with your account. —Jeffrey