[twitter] Support retweets

[RingoTheDog]

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

C:\Transmogrifier>youtube-dl.py -v "https://twitter.com/abcdedgar/status/851850282556370944"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://twitter.com/abcdedgar/status/851850282556370944']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.11
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-71727-g46778ab, ffprobe 3.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 851850282556370944: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 851850282556370944: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest ver
ype  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 498, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2100, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 471, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 581, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 509, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 443, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\urllib\request.py", line 589, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)


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### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *site support request* please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by **yours**):
- Single video: https://twitter.com/abcdedgar/status/851850282556370944



Note that **youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to [copyright infringement](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#can-you-add-support-for-this-anime-video-site-or-site-which-shows-current-movies-for-free)**. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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If I point directly to the m3u8 file it does work:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/851844171170283521/pu/pl/1280x720/EdHF_tzg4Uvgzaam.m3u8

Thanks
Ringo

[isaacm]

I don't think that youtube-dl follows retweets to find the original tweet. From looking at your example it is indeed a retweet which has no media.

Try it again with the original tweet url and it should download without error (worked for me).

NOTE: A potential fix here involves adding support for downloading retweeted videos.

[remitamine]

There is no video on the webpage.