Twitter Video Problems Downloading

[DW X]

Phenomenal tool. Thanks!

Can't seem to use your program to download video content from Twitter feeds, or webpages that embed a video sourced to Twitter. Is there a way to get around the error?

[DW X]

Here is an example of a Twitter video that isn't working:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1416793161905713158

[jcv...@gmail.com]

Twitter is quite complex, seems to have different formats and stream types, sometimes we just don't find it. Didn't manage to get this one, but got one which was actually a video in the replies, not the good one...

jerome

[Wild Willy]

I tried a couple of the variants offered by VDH & they just gave me an error message.
VDH offered several variants that were only 1.1K, obviously too short to be correct. It
also offered a couple of variants that were of the wrong duration. But a couple of them
looked promising so I tried those but like I said, they ended with an error, leaving a
..part file on my hard drive in the selected directory. On the other hand, here's a new
video that just went up today.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ypJdgEEBbdGW

VDH got it without any problems. I expect Twitter will continue to make their platform
more & more arcane, to the point where VDH won't manage to work on any video. I will
always suspect that the purpose of the changes will be to thwart VDH & other similar
products.

[AJ]

Apparently, I just sent this as a private message. Here it is for everyone.

I've been having the same trouble downloading Twitter videos.

This site seems to work for the videos that VDH can't download:

https://twittervideodownloader.com/

[DW X]

Thanks to all and AJ. I'll try this link.

[Foush]

I'm running into this problem as well, I think. I tried to download a friend's video he posted to twitter. VDH starts to download but after a few moments the download shows up as failed with a message of "received no data"

Any workarounds?

[Wild Willy]

Although I've posted in this thread before, I've learned some things since then. Take a
look over here:

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/BzPLK2YyL-s

Look for a reference to an alternative method for downloading something when VDH fails to
do so. One of the examples shown in there is a Twitter video.

[pau...@gmail.com]

Lately I can't seem to download properly even normal videos on Twitter.
I just get 1Kb file.

[Cartographic Corsair]

Still an issue. It's definitely downloading something, but fumbles at the end.

MP2T - No data received

moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1

value@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:141166

value@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:130080

value@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:73997

218/value/t.endTimer<@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:129175

I've had success with Gallery-DL though. It's command-line and not super-beginner friendly, but it gets the job done (once you figure out how).

For Twitter, you'll need to download your cookies in the standard (Netscape?) format.

Add this to your config.json in the extractor object/dict.

"twitter": {
"archive-format": "{tweet_id}_{num}",
"username": "YOUR TWITTER USERNAME",
"cookies": "%APPDATA%/gallery-dl/twitter.com_cookies.txt",
"csrf": "cookies",
"refresh-token": "cache"
},

Hope this helps.

-CC

[hilander]

.

Has anyone considered Digital Rights Management? If a content creator imposes DRM, chances are, your download will get screwed up regardless of how good video download helper is.

Can anyone defeat DRM?

I believe that would make the biggest difference.

Twitter is known for imposing DRM. Many other websites are following suit; mainstream media sites, cnn cbc bbc ctvnews

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From: Cartographic Corsair <cartograp...@gmail.com>To: Video DownloadHelper Q&A <video-download...@googlegroups.com>Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 at 12:13:54 p.m. EDTSubject: Re: Twitter Video Problems Downloading

Still an issue. It's definitely downloading something, but fumbles at the end.

MP2T - No data received

moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1value@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:141166value@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:130080value@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:73997218/value/t.endTimer<@moz-extension://90d4b8f2-6e4a-44aa-83da-222fbe4f18b9/background/main.js:1:129175



I've had success with Gallery-DL though. It's command-line and not super-beginner friendly, but it gets the job done (once you figure out how).For Twitter, you'll need to download your cookies in the standard (Netscape?) format.

Add this to your config.json in the extractor object/dict. "twitter": {
"archive-format": "{tweet_id}_{num}",
"username": "YOUR TWITTER USERNAME",
"cookies": "%APPDATA%/gallery-dl/twitter.com_cookies.txt",
"csrf": "cookies",
"refresh-token": "cache"
},
Hope this helps.
-CC
On Monday, December 19, 2022 at 12:03:02 PM UTC-6 pau...@gmail.com wrote:
Lately I can't seem to download properly even normal videos on Twitter.
I just get 1Kb file.

On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 3:45:13 AM UTC+1 Wild Willy wrote:
Although I've posted in this thread before, I've learned some things since then. Take a

look over here:



https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/BzPLK2YyL-s



Look for a reference to an alternative method for downloading something when VDH fails to

do so. One of the examples shown in there is a Twitter video.

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[Cartographic Corsair]

DRM? That's a good question, though I'm 99% sure it doesn't apply to my recent test cases.