Downloading liked posts from a date range doesn't work

[thomas694]

Discussed in #400

^{Originally posted by Zhiro90 November 30, 2022}
After authenticating, I'm trying to archive my likes from the beginning of my tumblr (2010~) to 2012~, but after messing around with the FROM/TO fields (with proper yyyymmdd format) it still downloads my most recent likes, with a few old likes thrown in.

I've tried
FROM:(blank) TO:20120101,
FROM:20070606 TO:20120101
FROM:20110101 TO:20120101

and all of them start downloading 2022 posts.

Am I doing something wrong?

There's a problem, because the chosen date is used for pagination, but Tumblr compares it against the date the post was liked, while TumblThree uses the date for filtering (post date). We have to consider that and change the way TumblThree is doing it a bit.

What does a user expect from this start and end date here (ignoring the tooltip)? The date range the posts were liked or the date range the posts have been published? The latter somehow requires scanning always through all the liked posts.

[thomas694]

Tumblr's pagination timestamp is referring to the date the post was liked and not the post date itself. So using start and end date for pagination and filtering by post date at the same time couldn't work.

[thomas694]

The issue has been fixed and closed.