Twitter video gives .m3u8

[NekoAlosama]

Using the Firefox extension, popup keyboard shortcut, and "Link video" on in Popup, I can get the video links to video and gif tweets. Gifs work fine, but videos don't.

In this tweet, I found that the extension gave me a lower quality video, compared to using https://twittervideodownloader.com/ .

In another tweet, it seems that the extension gives me a .m3u8 file that seems to supposed to become a .mp4, but doesn't. It's also less than 1 KB. This one at least is the largest that the video downloader above gives.

After a second look through the rules, I enabled "Rules using brute-force", but this also gave me a .m3u8.

Does finding the largest video on Twitter just give you a .m3u8?

[qsniyg]

Thanks for reporting! Should be fixed now.

Yes, .m3u8 will usually return the highest quality. You can download it using youtube-dl/yt-dlp. The way I usually do it is by using Shift+C to copy the URL (unless you bind it to another key), then yt-dlp '[paste]' -o file.mp4'. You can disable it if you prefer to have the mp4 file instead. It should now return the highest quality mp4.

[NekoAlosama]

Is there an option to manually update the userscript in the extension? It's still not working for me, and I don't know if that's because my extension is outdated or if it just didn't work. I even put my update interval to 1 hour but I've seen nothing,

[qsniyg]

I haven't updated the extension on AMO yet. You can sideload the addon though, instructions are in the README :)

[NekoAlosama]

While trying the XPI method, I saw that the .xpi is outdated, since it's the 0.19.4 version.

[NekoAlosama]

@qsniyg When will you update the extension on AMO?