Get a Tumblr blog

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Retrieve public blog identity, title, description, avatars, theme settings, top tags and published blog metadata.

GET/v1/tumblr/blogx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

handlestringrequiredquery

Required lowercase Tumblr blog handle, 1 to 32 characters, using letters, numbers and interior hyphens. Send the handle without @ or a URL.

Exampleexampleblog

Response fields

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage.

statusenum

success or partial for usable data; failed or challenged for a failure response.

one of: success, partial

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

sourceUrlstring

Canonical public URL for the requested blog, post, search, tag or community.

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Returned-result coverage and extraction warnings.

coverage.sourcestring

Public Tumblr web data.

coverage.completeboolean

Whether this returned result has no reported omissions.

coverage.warningsenum[]

Named extraction and pagination warnings.

coverage.orderstringoptional

Reported result ordering when available.

Source request attempts, decoded bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Number of upstream request attempts.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Decoded source bytes read during this request.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsinteger

Elapsed request time in milliseconds.

≥ 0

Public Tumblr blog details.

blog.namestring

Blog handle.

blog.uuidstringnullable

Source blog UUID, or null.

blog.titlestringnullable

Published blog title, or null.

blog.urlstringnullable

Blog URL, or null.

blog.canonicalUrlstringnullable

Canonical Tumblr blog URL, or null.

blog.blogViewUrlstringnullable

Source blog-view URL, or null.

blog.descriptionstringnullable

Published plain-text description, or null.

blog.descriptionNpfobject[]nullable

Description content blocks in Tumblr Neue Post Format, or null.

blog.avatarobject[]nullable

Published avatar variants with source URLs and dimensions, or null.

blog.themeobjectnullable

Published theme settings, or null.

blog.tumblrmartAccessoriesobjectnullable

Published blog accessory metadata, or null.

blog.topTagsobject[]nullable

Published top-tag records in source order, or null.

blog.createdintegernullable

Blog creation time in Unix seconds, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

blog.updatedintegernullable

Blog update time in Unix seconds, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

blog.postCountintegernullable

Published blog post count, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

blog.totalPostsintegernullable

Published total post count, or null.

0 – 9007199254740991

blog.isAdultbooleannullable

Source adult-content flag, or null.

blog.isNsfwbooleannullable

Source sensitive-content flag, or null.

blog.isBrandSafebooleannullable

Source brand-safety flag, or null.

blog.isPasswordProtectedbooleannullable

Source password-protection flag, or null.

blog.shouldBlurbooleannullable

Source content-blur flag, or null.

blog.allowSearchIndexingbooleannullable

Source search-indexing setting, or null.

blog.isHiddenFromBlogNetworkbooleannullable

Source blog-network visibility flag, or null.

blog.shareFollowingbooleannullable

Published following-list visibility setting, or null.

blog.shareLikesbooleannullable

Published liked-post visibility setting, or null.

blog.shareRepliesbooleannullable

Published reply-sharing setting, or null.

blog.askbooleannullable

Whether asks are enabled, or null.

blog.askAnonbooleannullable

Whether anonymous asks are enabled, or null.

blog.asksAllowMediabooleannullable

Whether asks allow media, or null.

blog.askPageTitlestringnullable

Published ask-page title, or null.

blog.canMessagebooleannullable

Source messaging capability flag, or null.

blog.canSubscribebooleannullable

Source subscription capability flag, or null.

blog.canBeFollowedbooleannullable

Source follow capability flag, or null.

blog.canShowBadgesbooleannullable

Source badge-display flag, or null.

blog.replyConditionsstringnullable

Published reply policy, or null.

blog.linkedAccountsobject[]nullable

Published linked-account metadata, or null.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with more_available, item_limit, non_post_items_omitted, unknown_note_type or field_limit coverage warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported request parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service API key.
404	`not_found`	The requested public blog, post or community was not found.
422	`restricted_page`	The requested primary object is access-restricted.
422	`unsupported_page`	The source layout or identity could not be mapped to the contract.
502	`upstream_challenged`	The source challenged retrieval.
502	`upstream_rate_limited`	The source rate-limited retrieval.
502	`upstream_error`	Source retrieval could not complete.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Source data exceeded the byte or parsing limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit`	The source redirect or request sequence exceeded the accepted contract.
503	`busy`	Request capacity or queue wait was exceeded.
504	`timeout`	The total operation deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tumblr/blog?handle=exampleblog" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tumblr/blog?handle=exampleblog",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tumblr/blog?handle=exampleblog",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Tumblr request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tumblr/blog",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "exampleblog"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tumblr/blog?handle=exampleblog", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/tumblr/blog?handle=exampleblog"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.tumblr.com/exampleblog",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 1500,
    "durationMs": 300
  },
  "blog": {
    "name": "exampleblog",
    "uuid": "t:synthetic-blog",
    "title": "Example blog",
    "url": "https://exampleblog.tumblr.com/",
    "canonicalUrl": "https://www.tumblr.com/exampleblog",
    "blogViewUrl": null,
    "description": "Synthetic art and photography blog.",
    "descriptionNpf": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Synthetic art and photography blog."
      }
    ],
    "avatar": [
      {
        "width": 64,
        "height": 64,
        "url": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/synthetic-avatar.png"
      }
    ],
    "theme": {
      "titleColor": "#36465D",
      "backgroundColor": "#FFFFFF"
    },
    "tumblrmartAccessories": null,
    "topTags": [
      {
        "tag": "photography",
        "count": 3
      }
    ],
    "created": null,
    "updated": null,
    "postCount": null,
    "totalPosts": null,
    "isAdult": false,
    "isNsfw": null,
    "isBrandSafe": null,
    "isPasswordProtected": false,
    "shouldBlur": null,
    "allowSearchIndexing": null,
    "isHiddenFromBlogNetwork": null,
    "shareFollowing": null,
    "shareLikes": null,
    "shareReplies": null,
    "ask": null,
    "askAnon": null,
    "asksAllowMedia": null,
    "askPageTitle": null,
    "canMessage": null,
    "canSubscribe": null,
    "canBeFollowed": null,
    "canShowBadges": null,
    "replyConditions": null,
    "linkedAccounts": null
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed, unsafe or unsupported request parameters.

{
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}