How to Download Tumblr Videos?

This post shows you how to download the Videos from Tumblr website.

There are many interesting videos on Tumblr. And if you want to download them (save the Tumblr videos locally), you could follow the steps:

How to Download Tumblr Videos Manually?

First is right click on the tumblr video and click [View Frame Source]:

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Then, Free Ctrl+F to search for the word (video or mp4), normally, there will be only 1 match, right click the link and select [save link as].

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This will be the simplest method to download and save tumblr videos without using any tools.

PHP Script to Download Tumblr Video (Tumblr Video URL Parser)

If you have quite a few tumblr posts URL and you want to save the videos, apparently, there are better ways to doing this instead of the manual approach. Using phpQuery, you can crawl the tumblr post and get its HTML content.

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// PHP function to download Tumblr Videos
require('phpQuery.php');
function downloadTumblrVideoURL($tumblr_url) {
    $doc = phpQuery::newDocumentFile($tumblr_url);    
    return trim(strip_tags(pq("source")->filter(":first")->attr('src')));
}

// PHP function to download Tumblr Videos
require('phpQuery.php');
function downloadTumblrVideoURL($tumblr_url) {
    $doc = phpQuery::newDocumentFile($tumblr_url);    
    return trim(strip_tags(pq("source")->filter(":first")->attr('src')));
}

Using Chrome Extension

This Chrome Extension Video URL Parser supports the Tumblr video, meaning that you can just click to get the tumblr video URL. It is a must-have tool for Chrome users.

Using Online Tumblr Video Downloader

This online Ajax utility is a handy tool to parse the Tumblr video URLs. It even provides an API for the developers to parse the video URLs for different hosts remotely. There are currently two API servers.

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