Room 208

Elaborate Burn

I poked around today to see if I could use the Tumblr API to change the type of an existing post, a task that I’ve previously shown how to do with form twiddling. It turns out that the API cheerfully ignores the type parameter in requests, which I probably should have checked before spending a couple of hours on installing stuff and putting together the foundations of a simple-yet-classy web app in Flask. Oh, well.

Long story short: If you want to change the type of a post, messing around with the dashboard’s HTML remains the only way to do it that I know of. Surely Tumblr could actually support this in its UI?