Question

How to authenticate and then post text to tumblr from the iphone SDK for tumblr
Please Help!

Answer 1

Try this function For post to tumblr Hope this will help you 🙂

- (IBAction)postToTumblr1
{
    NSString *emailRegex = @"[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}";
    NSPredicate *emailTest = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegex];
    BOOL b = [emailTest evaluateWithObject:emailtext.text];


    if (b==NO) 
    {
        UIAlertView *messageBox = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:@" " message:@"Invalid Email ID" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [messageBox show];
        [messageBox release];
    }
    else
    {
        NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.tumblr.com/api/write"]];
        [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

        // tell the server to expect 8-bit encoded content as we're sending UTF-8 data, and UTF-8 is an 8-bit encoding
        [request addValue:@"8bit" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Transfer-Encoding"];

        //set the content-type header to multipart MIME
        [request addValue: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@", [NSString MIMEBoundary]] forHTTPHeaderField: @"Content-Type"];

        //create a dictionary for all the fields you want to send in the POST request
        NSDictionary* postData = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                 emailtext.text, @"email",
                                 password.text, @"password",
                                 @"regular", @"type",
                                 @"The Real Compatibility Tester", @"title",
                                 postText, @"body",
                                 nil];

        //set the body of the POST request to the multipart MIME encoded dictionary
        [request setHTTPBody: [[NSString multipartMIMEStringWithDictionary: postData] dataUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

        NSLog(@"Tumblr Login:%@\nTumblr ", emailtext.text);

        [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:self];
        [request release];

        yes = 1;

        if(1)
        {
            UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:@"Tumblr Post" message:@"Post successfully" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"ok" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];

            [alert show];
            [alert release];
        }
        else 
        {
            UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:@"Tumblr Post" message:@"Post not  successfully done" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"ok" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];

            [alert show];
            [alert release];
        }
    }
}