How to format custom Tweet?

[jeffThompson]

How to format custom Tweet?

[seejohnrun]

Heya - if you're trying to link to the original content you may want to check out the "link" type (if I understand the question properly). Take a look at http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2#posting - thanks!

[jeffThompson]

Actually, I'm trying to get the link to the Tumblr post itself (to include in the Tweet similar to how the default Tweet works).

Would it involve reading the response back from the Tumblr client? It looks like the URL for a post is something like {base url}.tumblr.com/{random number}/{custom slug, if used}

Am I on the right track?

[jeffThompson]

A quick test and I see I can get what I think is the post ID from the client response, but that happens after I post with the custom Tweet, for example:

>> response = client.create_photo(blog_address, data=image_path, tags=tags, slug=slug, tweet=tweet)  
>> print response
{u'id': 74493097090}

(where tweet is a string built earlier and formatted for Twitter)

[seejohnrun]

Yes - that's how you would get the link - there should be a url property if I remember correctly in the response

[jeffThompson]

Thanks - looking a little more at the Tumblr docs, it appears that the Tweet parameter "manages the autotweet (if enabled) for this post: set to off for no tweet, or enter text to override the default tweet".

I think this means that one would need to use the Twitter API to separately post with the response URL, which is totally fine, just an extra step!

FWIW, I'm using PyTumblr for this project to post roughly 2500 screenshots of computers on Law & Order over the next year-and-a-half.

[seejohnrun]

Ah I see what you mean now :)
yep - that sounds right to me

Good luck on your project - I think we had connected at some point earlier (I remember the concept) and I'm excited to see more. Will follow along!