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• Adding Tumblr Sharing to Fever

  I saw Nicholas Penree’s post Adding Digg Sharing to Fever earlier and I hadn’t realized just how easy it was to add sharing options to Fever.  In truth, I just hadn’t looked that closely before now but his post inspired me to add my favorite sharing service, you guessed it, Tumblr to this wonderful RSS reader I’ve become addicted to.

  So, here you go:

  http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=%u&t=%t&s=%e

  If you’re interested, breaking down the anatomy of it was easy.  The first thing I had to figure out what the Tumblr url syntax and I started by grabbing the Tumblr bookmarklet and stripping out all of the javascript.  The best way to then identify the three sections of the url was to find anything on the web and use the bookmarklet on it.  Then I grabbed that url, compared it to what I already had from the bookmarklet and tested it with a dummy example.

  http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=www.test.com&t=Test&s=selected

  Nothing before &u= needed to be changed.  &u= designated the url part, just add it after the equal.  The tittle and the selected bits worked the same way.

  Test worked fine and it was time to move on to the Fever parts.  Shaun has good instructions in the sharing section of the preferences so there was no guesswork involved.  %t became title, %u is the url and %e is the excerpt which translated back into selected.  Plug them in the appropriate spots after the =’s and I’m done.  The process should be easily repeatable for other many other sharing services.

  If anyone knows how to get this to work with FriendFeed or Posterous I couldn’t figure it out.

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