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How to display a link to my latest Tumblr post using Javascript?

Is there a way for me to link to my latest post on tumblr, bearing in mind the URL will change everytime I create a new post? I’ve checked the API and I’m having a hard time trying to code a link. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

just read your tumblr rss feed (ie. with php) and use the link of the first item.
ie. the url for the tumblr rss feed of “nationalpost” looks like this:

http://nationalpost.tumblr.com/rss

also the xml api offerts the url for you latest post

http://nationalpost.tumblr.com/api/read

and also available as json, so you can do it with javascript

http://nationalpost.tumblr.com/api/read/json

with jQuery it could look like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $.getJSON('http://nationalpost.tumblr.com/api/read/json?callback=?', function(result) {
        $('#link').html('<a href="'+ result.posts[0].url +'">Latest Post</a>');
    });
});

and here’s the working example on jsfiddle