Twitter/X media page #26732

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opened 2026-02-21 14:27:34 -05:00 by deekerman · 1 comment

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 14:27:34 -05:00

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Originally created by @am517 on GitHub (Nov 5, 2023).

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I'm reporting a broken site support
I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

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youtube-dl -v https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--cookies', '/Users/me/.config/youtube-dl/cookies', '--cache-dir', '/Users/me/.config/youtube-dl/', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-i', '--no-mark-watched', '--no-warnings', '--retries', 'infinite', '--fragment-retries', 'infinite', '--download-archive', '/Users/me/.config/youtube-dl/downloads.txt', '-o', '/Volumes/Movies/Youtubes/%(uploader)s/%(playlist_title)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', 'bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a][abr<=192]/bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio/best', '--write-sub', '--write-auto-sub', '--sub-lang', 'en,ja', '--embed-subs', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--xattrs', '--audio-format', 'm4a', '--recode-video', 'mp4']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
[debug] Git HEAD: 83b4b2f2f
[debug] Python version 3.11.6 (CPython) - macOS-14.1-arm64-arm-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.0, ffprobe 6.0, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] media: Requesting header
[generic] media: Downloading webpage
[generic] media: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3489, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media

Description

I would like to download all videos from the media tab of a twitter profile. There may be images posted here too, but I imagine they can be skipped. I only want the videos posted by the user (media tab), not just shared (main twitter stream).

Originally created by @am517 on GitHub (Nov 5, 2023).  ## Checklist  - [x] I'm reporting a broken site support - [x] I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version **2021.12.17** - [x] I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser - [x] I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped - [x] I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones ## Verbose log  ``` youtube-dl -v https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media [debug] System config: [] [debug] User config: ['--cookies', '/Users/me/.config/youtube-dl/cookies', '--cache-dir', '/Users/me/.config/youtube-dl/', '--user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-i', '--no-mark-watched', '--no-warnings', '--retries', 'infinite', '--fragment-retries', 'infinite', '--download-archive', '/Users/me/.config/youtube-dl/downloads.txt', '-o', '/Volumes/Movies/Youtubes/%(uploader)s/%(playlist_title)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', 'bestvideo[ext=mp4][height<=1080]+bestaudio[ext=m4a][abr<=192]/bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio/best', '--write-sub', '--write-auto-sub', '--sub-lang', 'en,ja', '--embed-subs', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--xattrs', '--audio-format', 'm4a', '--recode-video', 'mp4'] [debug] Custom config: [] [debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8 [debug] youtube-dl version 2021.12.17 [debug] Git HEAD: 83b4b2f2f [debug] Python version 3.11.6 (CPython) - macOS-14.1-arm64-arm-64bit [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 6.0, ffprobe 6.0, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Proxy map: {} [generic] media: Requesting header [generic] media: Downloading webpage [generic] media: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 815, in wrapper return func(self, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 836, in __extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 534, in extract ie_result = self._real_extract(url) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.11/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3489, in _real_extract raise UnsupportedError(url) youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/media ``` ## Description  I would like to download all videos from the media tab of a twitter profile. There may be images posted here too, but I imagine they can be skipped. I only want the videos posted by the user (media tab), not just shared (main twitter stream).

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deekerman commented

2026-02-21 14:27:37 -05:00

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@dirkf commented on GitHub (Nov 5, 2023):

I don't think the Twitter/X extractor is working properly at the moment and the site is even more aggressive against third-party tools. Even when it was working I believe it just picked media from a single tweet. Still, your suggestion seems reasonable.

@dirkf commented on GitHub (Nov 5, 2023): I don't think the Twitter/X extractor is working properly at the moment and the site is even more aggressive against third-party tools. Even when it was working I believe it just picked media from a single tweet. Still, your suggestion seems reasonable.

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