I originally setup my Tumblr unsure of what to use it for, so I just added a bunch of feeds to it, like my Twitter, my blog feed, my delicious links, and my github activity. But when I decided to actually use my Tumblr as a real blog, I decided I didn’t want all that junk in here.
For whatever reason, Tumblr doesn’t provide any sort of simple way to clean out a lot (1000+) of posts. The only way to delete posts it to scroll to the post in the dashboard, click the “delete” button, and wait for the POST to be submitted and the page reloaded, which forgets your current scroll position. I wasn’t going to do that 1000 times.
Thankfully, there’s a decent API that lets you easily receive all your posts. The posts have a field set if they had been imported through a feed. And with the dashboard using Prototype, it was a matter of putting together 2 functions to read and delete posts, and then some minor babysitting to make sure to pause when Tumblr would throttle me.
