> Hi there

> I'm trying to do some visualisation of the path of tumblr posts through
> the site, using directed network graphs (blogs are the nodes, 'reblogged
> from' shows the direction etc.)

> I can do this okay by manually copying and pasting notes and using find
> and replace to get the text into the right format for use in graphing
> programs like gephi, however this manual copying and psting doesn't cut it
> when it comes to posts with thousands of notes, let alone tens of
> thousands.

> I need to know a way of getting all the notes automatically. Is there a
> way (besides page scraping... which i don't really know how to do anyway)?

> It would also be of interest to know how i could get timestamp data from
> notes - the number order is sufficent to give a timeline (i want to arrange
> the graphs in chronological order), but i'd rather have something more
> specific to work with.
>  i hope this is making some kind of sense (i feel like a total noob
> writing this)

> ideally i am aiming to create a tool on the web that allows you to input
> the url of a post, and then automatically generates the network graph for
> that post. (I'll probably use something like sigmajs do do this on the
> web). whether this is actually possible i'm not sure, but i'm trying to see
> how far I can get, any pointers will be useful!

> Thanks :)