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I'm trying to get the Video URL of ( https://twitter.com/i/videos/823649890379120640?embed_source=facebook )
I tried going over the source code but it give the same URL link
<meta property="og:video:url" content="https://twitter.com/i/videos/823649890379120640?embed_source=facebook">
Is there any trick to get the URL of the videos or their locations ?
youtube-dl is a nice program to download media content from a lot of websites, including twitter (and despites program name). It is open source, studying it can help understand how to retrieve the correct URLs and various other stuff (media quality, etc…)
yt-dlp too which is a fork of youtube-dl with added features and more recent releases. If you have a new separate question you need to post a new one with all details.
Feb 1, 2022 at 12:54
You were looking at the wrong piece of code. Twitter features lightly obfuscated javscript. Bring it to order and you'll receive something like this:
{
"duration": 55322,
"scribe_widget_origin": true,
"heartbeatEnabled": false,
"video_url": "https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video\/823648834102272000\/pu\/pl\/BZiFV49f1BCX2JkK.m3u8",
"disable_embed": "0",
"videoInfo": {
"title": null,
"description": null,
"publisher": {
"screen_name": "VinePhilly",
"name": "Global",
"profile_image_url": "https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/822579605177532418\/ZS3emkF8_normal.jpg"
}
},
"cardUrl": "https:\/\/t.co\/dpfYidciVZ",
"content_type": "application\/x-mpegURL",
"owner_id": "2495729384",
"looping_enabled": true,
"show_cookie_override_en": true,
"visit_cta_url": null,
"scribe_playlist_url": "https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinePhilly\/status\/823649890379120640\/video\/1",
"source_type": "consumer",
"image_src": "https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/823648834102272000\/pu\/img\/XgQjj1Y0_Sclf2SY.jpg",
"heartbeatIntervalInMs": 5000.0,
"use_tfw_live_heartbeat_event_category": true,
"video_loading_timeout": 45000.0,
"status": {
"created_at": "Mon Jan 23 21:53:31 +0000 2017",
"id": 823649890379120640,
"id_str": "823649890379120640",
"text": "Bro They Had A Picnic In Walmart \ud83d\ude2d https:\/\/t.co\/dpfYidciVZ",
"truncated": false,
"entities": {
"hashtags": [],
"symbols": [],
"user_mentions": [],
"urls": [],
"media": [{
"id": 823648834102272000,
"id_str": "823648834102272000",
"indices": [35, 58],
"media_url": "http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/823648834102272000\/pu\/img\/XgQjj1Y0_Sclf2SY.jpg",
"media_url_https": "https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/823648834102272000\/pu\/img\/XgQjj1Y0_Sclf2SY.jpg",
"url": "https:\/\/t.co\/dpfYidciVZ",
"display_url": "pic.twitter.com\/dpfYidciVZ",
"expanded_url": "https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinePhilly\/status\/823649890379120640\/video\/1",
"type": "photo",
"sizes": {
"small": {
"w": 340,
"h": 425,
"resize": "fit"
},
"large": {
"w": 480,
"h": 600,
"resize": "fit"
},
"thumb": {
"w": 150,
"h": 150,
"resize": "crop"
},
"medium": {
"w": 480,
"h": 600,
"resize": "fit"
}
}
}]
},
"source": "\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/download\/iphone\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTwitter for iPhone\u003c\/a\u003e",
"in_reply_to_status_id": null,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"geo": null,
"coordinates": null,
"place": null,
"contributors": null,
"retweet_count": 0,
"favorite_count": 0,
"favorited": false,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"lang": "en"
},
"show_cookie_override_all": true,
"video_session_enabled": false,
"media_id": "823648834102272000",
"view_counts": null,
"statusTimestamp": {
"local": "1:53 PM - 23 Jan 2017"
},
"media_type": 1,
"user": {
"screen_name": "VinePhilly",
"name": "Global",
"profile_image_url": "https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/822579605177532418\/ZS3emkF8_bigger.jpg"
},
"watch_now_cta_url": null,
"tweet_id": "823649890379120640"
}
You should be able to get to the video url from here. One more tip: the 'video_url' points to a playlist file. I'm not going to do this due to legal obligations.
I hope this helps
Yes you can. Original post is here.
Explication :
In your link : https://twitter.com/i/videos/823649890379120640?embed_source=facebook
You can see a JSON with some informations.
"statusTimestamp":{"local":"21:53 - 23 janv. 2017"}"user":{"screen_name":"VinePhilly" ...}"tweet_id":"823649890379120640"So you can access to the profile of the owner with https://twitter.com/VinePhilly and craft the url to access the original post with https://twitter.com/VinePhilly/status/823649890379120640.
Pattern is: https://twitter.com/user/status/tweet_id
