Download twitter videos
Download Twitter blob videos with youtube-dl • lorenzo milesi
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Suppose you would like to download a Twitter embedded video for /future usage/. Some of the videos are just /mp4/ files, and they can be easily downloaded by looking at the page source and directly open the link.
But sometimes you see something like this:
<video preload="none" playsinline="" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; background-color: black; transform: rotate(0deg) scale(1.005);" poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1083861042181144576/pu/img/Z7CzxlIrm3-5td39.jpg" src="blob:https://twitter.com/0e462ebf-795f-e648-a766-4462a3e1ee5d"></video>What is that? A blob video? Don’t get mad, /the lazyweb/ always comes in rescue.
Open the tweet in another page, open the browser console (typically F12 or /⌘ + ⇧ + i/) and click on the /Network/ tab. You will see all the resource fetched for the page, and among them there should be a /m3u8/ file. What is that? Simply a multimedia playlist!
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Twitter blob video: how to find m3u8 url
Right click on the m3u8 file and select /Copy URL/. Now go to console and feed that url to /youtube-dl/. It will fetch the playlist, download all the video segments and merge them with ffmpeg. It takes few seconds, and the result is the whole video, usually saved as mp4.
$ youtube-dl https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/pl/HIUSpLP6H0q4JGdt.m3u8\?tag\=8
[generic] HIUSpLP6H0q4JGdt: Requesting header
[generic] HIUSpLP6H0q4JGdt: Downloading m3u8 information
[download] Destination: HIUSpLP6H0q4JGdt-HIUSpLP6H0q4JGdt.mp4
ffmpeg version 4.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
built with Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)
configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.1_1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libsnappy --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-opencl --enable-videotoolbox
libavutil 56. 22.100 / 56. 22.100
libavcodec 58. 35.100 / 58. 35.100
libavformat 58. 20.100 / 58. 20.100
libavdevice 58. 5.100 / 58. 5.100
libavfilter 7. 40.101 / 7. 40.101
libavresample 4. 0. 0 / 4. 0. 0
libswscale 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100
libswresample 3. 3.100 / 3. 3.100
libpostproc 55. 3.100 / 55. 3.100
[hls,applehttp @ 0x7f97ed802000] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/0/3000/414x720/oO-J3tZvt3e1FI4X.ts' for reading
[hls,applehttp @ 0x7f97ed802000] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/3000/6000/414x720/FIGnFA6AUn6eVAK9.ts' for reading
Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/pl/414x720/QOIrugj54yK1xVMD.m3u8':
Duration: 00:00:49.90, start: 3.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
Program 0
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 414x720, 23.75 fps, 23.75 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Output #0, mp4, to 'file:HIUSpLP6H0q4JGdt-HIUSpLP6H0q4JGdt.mp4.part':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf58.20.100
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 414x720, q=2-31, 23.75 fps, 23.75 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp
Metadata:
variant_bitrate : 0
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
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[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/6000/9000/414x720/R5Fg1BJ8cpdH-wqB.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed804800] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/9000/12000/414x720/06wvoQLlQW8tK6fc.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/12000/15000/414x720/Y1qSwXOybn036JVo.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed804800] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/15000/18000/414x720/fSuqUyg250MlKCIx.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/18000/21000/414x720/7nj3lJFKsUwsOppn.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed804800] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/21000/24000/414x720/ldQahm7jF2r7qH7n.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/24000/27000/414x720/rh6L9N5QOwF_vJAC.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed804800] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/27000/30000/414x720/Vg7amM1CRQt-b8Xm.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/30000/33000/414x720/sN9eF4l7UMfcVRws.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed804800] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/33000/36000/414x720/15yUDCP7oir4Zju5.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/36000/39000/414x720/CSzxl0t2yL5oRZsf.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed804800] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/39000/42000/414x720/UOm2B2QtjBSt9_4B.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/42000/45000/414x720/kYZBW3BvUer1JIVr.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed804800] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/45000/48000/414x720/1Ea_rNaMwxSYxpOL.ts' for reading
[https @ 0x7f97ed018200] Opening 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1083861042181144576/pu/vid/48000/49895/414x720/lQnPgxYrt_y9RCCq.ts' for reading
frame= 1185 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 Lsize= 2351kB time=00:00:49.87 bitrate= 386.1kbits/s speed=72.4x
video:1906kB audio:411kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 1.455244%
[ffmpeg] Downloaded 2407189 bytes
[download] 100% of 2.30MiB in 00:01f0972329-32cb-4be2-8f16-2fa20b069a00
Created on: 12th October, 2022
Last updated: 12th October, 2022
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