How to download Twitter videos

[dhf7b8g]

it does also support standard user:pass combo login for twitter

It does not work for X anymore:

[twitter][error] AuthenticationError: Login rejected as suspicious

Very strange it works fine for me
   

[Like Ra]

Very strange it works fine for me

Strange indeed - just tried again with the same result 😕 Specifying --user-agent does not help.

[dhf7b8g]

Strange indeed - just tried again with the same result 😕 Specifying --user-agent does not help.

Only two things I can think of is a version difference (the gallery-dl verison my package manager installed is 1.29.7 which is not latest) or your account has been soft flagged as suspicious by twitter and they are being much stricter with how you are allowed to log on.

[Like Ra]

my package manager installed is 1.29.7

1.30.2 here. Installed via snap (Ubuntu).

[Like Ra]

On most standard operating systems and browsers it can auto grab the cookies i

Yep, but on Ubuntu one snap package can not access another without explicit permissions. Just tried by linking the snap firefox profile to the standard ~/.mozilla/firefox and with "--cookies-from-browser firefox" :

"[twitter][warning] cookies: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '...../cookies.sqlite'

Apparently, I have to export cookies into a file in the gallery-dl snap dir. So, it IS complicated 😂

[dhf7b8g]

Yep, but on Ubuntu one snap package can not access another without explicit permissions. Just tried by linking the snap firefox profile to the standard ~/.mozilla/firefox and with "--cookies-from-browser firefox" :

"[twitter][warning] cookies: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '...../cookies.sqlite'

Apparently, I have to export cookies into a file in the gallery-dl snap dir. So, it IS complicated 😂

Yet another avoidable linux issue caused by snap... canonical why are you so insistent on these packages?

[Like Ra]

Yet another avoidable linux issue caused by snap... canonical why are you so insistent on these packages?

I think. it's Mozilla's decision to go for snap to get a controllable enviroment.
gallery-dl can be installed as a PIP package, but nowadays you can not install any pip package system-wise - only in a virtual environment.

O! There is an Ubuntu package!

gallery-dl/plucky,plucky 1.29.3-1 all

Let me try it ...

Logging in works!!! But now I'm getting another error:

Code:

[twitter][info] No results for https://x.com/KeiHypnosis/timeline

Found this: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/7008
and this https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/...terinclude

[Like Ra]

Aaand I'm stuck there. Nothing works. I could download the avatar and the background. For the rest I'm getting either "No results" or "404 Not Found" even if I see results in the browser.

Current command line:

Code:

gallery-dl -d . -v --sleep 1-10 --sleep-request 1-10 --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0" https://x.com/KeiHypnosis/

Also tried:

Code:

https://x.com/search?q=from:KeiHypnosis+include:nativetweets&f=live
https://x.com/search?filter:media&q=from:KeiHypnosis&src=typed_query"
https://x.com/search?q=from:KeiHypnosis
https://x.com/search?filter:media&q=from:KeiHypnosis&src=typed_query"

and the config file:

Code:

% cat ${HOME}/.config/gallery-dl/config.json
{
    "extractor": {
        "twitter": {
                "username": "username",
                "password": "password",
        "cookies": ["firefox","myprofile"],
                include": ["avatar","background","timeline", "media", "tweets"],
        "user-agent": "browser",
        "skip": true,
        "size": "orig"
        }
    }
}

I'm stuck ...

[Like Ra]

Probably, this is the problem:

Code:

[twitter][debug] Skipping 972584921201078272 ('Due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age. Learn more')

[Like Ra]

OK, it's working now. The trick was to use the old account (made before 2013), and the correct path to the cookies file (no password is needed). So, the config and command line above are correct.