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Back to 0 open issues, 0 open pull requests on Tumblesocks. Feels good 8)

If you installed tumblesocks with package-install from Marmalade, upgrading is easy:

M-x list-packages

Search for tumblesocks, then hit U to mark the package for upgrade.

Hit x to execute your changes.

I was trying to set up tumblesocks, but I ran into an error on the first step. Running M-x tumblesocks-api-test-auth was returning an unhelpful error message (“Looks like something’s wrong, try again?”), so that was unfortunate. First things first, I checked that I had all the proper packages installed. Not knowing a better way to do it, I just did (require 'packge-name) on each one of the required packages: oauth, htmlize, markdown-mode, and json. No problems there.

At this point, the README wasn’t much help, so I went searching for that error message in the source files and found it in the tumblesocks-api-test-auth function, not too surprisingly. From there, I started interspersing (debug) in the code, trying to pinpoint which subroutine was causing the problem. I eventually followed the path down to tumblesocks-api-reauthenticate; in the middle of that function, we’re trying to set a local token unique per blog, by taking advantage of the built-in oauth’s oauth-authorize-app function. So far, so good, but there’s still a long way to go…

Why did I get on Tumblr? So I could post from Emacs. With tumblesocks.

What is my first Tumblr post? Trying to get tumblesocks to work. 

After far too long fiddling around with oauth arcana, I found this post which describes the exact problem and a solution:

(setq oauth-nonce-function #'oauth-internal-make-nonce)

Open ~/.emacs.d/elpa/oauth-1.0.3/oauth.el and M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile

The problem is, even when I do this solution, M-x tumblesocks-api-test-auth still generates a nil token. The URL is:

https://www.tumblr.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=nil