A Viewer For Tumblr Likes

A couple of years ago, I wrote some code to display my archive of images from ffffound, an image bookmarking site, with the ability to filter by date and generated tags. That’s not the only place where I have a huge archive of images, though - among them, there’s also Tumblr.Of course, Tumblr has fairly decent archives and tag navigation pages, so it’s not a problem for my main blog. What it is lacking, however, is any sort of similar interface for likes - the FAQ page says so explicitly.Likes can be viewed in a list or grid format on the web, but cannot be sorted or filteredLuckily, there is an API, and it does expose likes. I use a Python package called tumblr-backup to back up this site, and it has an option to copy likes the same way. So, instead of only being able to look at likes on the Tumblr dashboard, twenty at a time, I now have a directory full of about sixteen thousand posts - in JSON - and their associated media.This is, of course, roughly where I started with my archive…