Feature: Save drafts using OAuth

[stirdraws]

Any way to go about this other than privately posting all 4k of my drafts?

[bbolli]

Why would you have 4k drafts?

[bbolli]

You can try to change the API URL. As explained here: https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2#postsdraft--retrieve-draft-posts the only change is the addition of /drafts after /posts.

[m----r]

Looks like drafts require oauth as well.

[stirdraws]

I have adhd and kept saving things to read for when my brain wasn't crapping out, and then failing to clear them. A lot. Over basically a decade. Thanks very much, I'll give this a shot!

[stirdraws]

Having authentication errors because I can't seem to nail down what to do here...
I have my keys and tokens, but I'm a bit confused per the tumble.py directions to "prepare the file ~/.config/tumblr" with them.
Is that a directory on the computer itself? If so, I'm on a macbook running OS X 10.7 and may need an alternate path; I appreciate any clarification or direction on how to proceed you can give me.

[bbolli]

I'm sorry, the OAuth instructions are only valid for tumble.py. I didn't notice this when researching the drafts API. tumblr_backup.py doesn't currently support OAuth-entication.

~ is just a shorthand notation for your home directory.

[stirdraws]

I don't suppose it's as simple as moving the relevant code from tumble.py to tumblr_backup.py and editing some references, is it?

I'm a self-taught spaghetti coder and a lot of this is outside my existing experience, so layman's terms are appreciated.

[bbolli]

You can always give it a try!

[stirdraws]

I gave it my best! No dice, unfortunately; can't get it to authenticate and save drafts at all.

The inability to access hidden posts is frustrating, but I'm grateful for the help and the ability to experiment with it. And I learned a lot, so I can't consider it a waste of time despite the lack of desired results.

Thanks for all the help!

[cebtenzzre]

Erm, now we have no issue to track this. It's probably possible to implement. Could someone reopen?