@exah/tumblr-theme-parser
v1.0.2
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parse and compile tumblr themes
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Tumblr Theme Parser
This tool allows custom Tumblr themes to be parsed / rendered locally, so they can be used outside of Tumblr.
It should be noted that this parser is slightly more strict than the one Tumblr uses. For example, each block tag must be matched with a closing block tag (omitting it will cause the parser to fail), and tags must open and close in the correct order ({block:a}{block:b}{/block:b}{/block:a} is correct, but {block:a}{block:b}{/block:a}{/block:b} will fail).
This parser allows case insensitivity in tag and variable names (because we want to match the Tumblr compiler as closely as possible). However, you should still use PascalCase for all of your identifiers, because this is the convention in Tumblr themes.
Usage
Before you compile your theme, you probably need to download the data you want to show on the compiled page. To do this, you can go to https://www.tumblr.com/customize_api/demo_content/<name of blog> and save it as a JSON file. <name of blog> is the subdomain used when accessing the blog, so if your blog has the address http://nasa.tumblr.com/. You would find your content at https://www.tumblr.com/customize_api/demo_content/nasa.
CLI
The Markup of the theme is passed in via STDIN, and the compiled theme is sent to STDOUT. Data for the theme is passed in the form of a file path. Warnings (like undefined variables or other non-fatal issues) are sent to STDERR. A typical command might look like this:
$ tumblr-theme-parser -d data.json < theme.html > compiled-theme.htmlFor example, with a Tumblr theme like this (saved as theme.html):
<html>
<head>
<title>{Title}</title>
</head>
<body>
{block:Posts}
<article class="{PostType}">
{block:Text}
{block:Title}
<a href="{Permalink}">
<h2>{Title}</h2>
</a>
{/block:Title}
{Body}
{/block:Text}
</article>
{/block:Posts}
</body>
</html>And this data from Tumblr (saved as data.json):
{
"Title": "My Title",
"block:Posts": [
{
"block:Body": true,
"block:Title": true,
"Body": "<p>test<br></p>",
"Permalink": "http:/test.tumblr.com/post/118449891560/test",
"PostType": "text",
"Title": "My first post"
}, {
"block:Body": true,
"block:Title": true,
"Body": "<p>test<br></p>",
"Permalink": "http:/test.tumblr.com/post/891560118449/test",
"PostType": "text",
"Title": "My second post"
}
]
}The rendered HTML looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<article class="text">
<a href="http:/test.tumblr.com/post/118449891560/test">
<h2>My first post</h2>
</a>
<p>test<br></p>
</article>
<article class="text">
<a href="http:/test.tumblr.com/post/891560118449/test">
<h2>My second post</h2>
</a>
<p>test<br></p>
</article>
</body>
</html>JavaScript
Usage in JavaScript is very simple. The module exports an object containing 2 functions: compile and parse. The compile function takes the input HTML as a string and optional associated data as JSON, and returns the compiled HTML.
compile = require('tumblr-theme-parser').compile
compiledHtml = compile(themeHtml, data)