How to Download Videos from Tumblr

Top 4 ways for you to download any content you want from tumblr, based on your tastes and needs.

Tumblr was set to become (and almost achieved to be) one of the biggest microblogging companies of the decade, allowing users to post a wide range of multimedia content, from text and audio to videos and images. Sadly, ever since it was sold off to Yahoo!, rumor has it Tumblr may be nearing the beginning of its end, which is why some of us may find ourselves wanting to store any of those useful, interesting and/or funny posts from our favorite blogs or even from our own blog, before it's too late. On that account, here we offer you 4 easy ways to download content from Tumblr.

Tumblripper: download all images from one blog

Using the “Save as…” option after right-clicking your mouse can get a bit tedious and tiresome when you want to download a lot of images posted in your favorite blog(s): Alas, TumblRipper!, a free Windows app that lets you do just that, download all of the image posts from one blog, with these simple instructions:

1. Download and execute the TumblRipper app.
2. On the small window shown you will only have to type in the location of the file you want your images to be stored in, and the URL of the Tumblr blog you want to download the images from.
3. Click Load and that’s it! The app will begin the downloading process of all of the images from your favorite blog.

Download tumblr videos to your computer

Albeit not as common as wanting to save images or pictures in your computer, from time to time, you may come upon a video or two that’s too good to let it go to waste. This method, although manual, is super easy to use and 100% foolproof. Here are the steps:

1. Position the cursor on the video and right click it, then select the option “This Frame”, and then “View Frame Source” as shown:
2. Consequently, it will open a link in a new tab, from which you will press “Ctrl + F”, to search for the key word “video/mp4” that is likely to get only one match.
3. Finally, right click on the link presented before the key word “video/mp4”, and press “Save Link As…” to start the download.

Tumblthree: download all the content from a tumblr blog to your computer

If you’re a Tumblr hoarder, then look no further than downloading TumblThree, a free and friendly Tumblr backup data app that allows you to download all of the content from a Tumblr blog, from text and audio to videos and images, including quotes, tags and comments.

Among the many useful features of the app are:

•  Download the entire content of any given blog (provided it’s not private), just by pasting de the blog’s URL after clicking the “Add blog” button.
•  Manage the type of content you want to download: You can choose if you only want to download images, audio or videos, or all of them, as well as the number of pages you are interested in downloading, in the “Blog settings” section.
•  Download content from multiple blogs at the same time.

TumblThree also features an option to skip the download of a file if it has already been downloaded before.

Timbloader: download tumblr content to your android mobile

If Tumblr content is the type of information you want to carry around everywhere you go, then look no further than the Timbloader app: An easy to use free app with which you can download any multimedia content you want on the account of only a few taps on your Android device.

Below it is shown an easy guide on how to use the app, provided by the creators of Timbloader itself:

In case you want to see a display of every item you have downloaded through this app, just click on the diskette icon located on the upper right corner of the screen, and it will open a list containing all the files downloaded from Tumblr with the Timbloader app.