A yt-dlp extractor plugin implementing credentialed login for Twitter

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NOTICE

This plugin has been made obsolete by yt-dlp version 2023.06.08.184733, commit d1795f4

Support for Twitter login has now been added in yt-dlp. As such, this plugin will no longer be updated, and it has been disabled for yt-dlp versions where it is obsolete

Update your yt-dlp to the latest version (yt-dlp -U) if you have not already.

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• Pass your web browser's user-agent as an argument to the --user-agent option if you want to avoid a "new device login" notification being triggered every time you use this plugin

• When yt-dlp is logging in to Twitter, it may prompt you for an "alternate identifier" (see next bullet point), a confirmation code, or a two-factor authentication token

• After you've used yt-dlp to log into Twitter, Twitter may begin requiring an "alternate idenitifier" to be entered upon each sign-in. This can be either your username, email or phone number, but it cannot be the same identifier you submitted as --username

• If your account does not have 2FA enabled, you can use the -2 option to pass your account's "alternate identifier" with your command, e.g. -u "email@example.com" -p "strong_password" -2 "username"

Installation

Requires yt-dlp version 2023.05.01.235542 to 2023.06.08.183630.

You can install this package with pip:

python3 -m pip install -U https://github.com/bashonly/yt-dlp-TwitterLogin/archive/master.zip

See yt-dlp installing plugins for the many other ways this plugin package can be installed.