Twitter video downloads no longer work

[mwpher]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.05.30
• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

When attempting to download this URL: https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1001551623938805763

I get this message:

[twitter] 1001551623938805763: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 1001551623938805763: Downloading webpage
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest ve
rsion; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete outpu
t.
PS C:\Users\Matt\bin>

Here's the verbose output:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--embed-subs', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '-f', 'mp4', '-o', '%(upload_date)s_%(title
)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1001551623938805763', '--verbose', '*>', 'debug.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.30
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.1, ffprobe 3.4.1, rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 1001551623938805763: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 1001551623938805763: Downloading webpage
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest ve
rsion; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete outpu
t.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpreyzoe3x\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792,
in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpreyzoe3x\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", lin
e 500, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpreyzoe3x\build\youtube_dl\extractor\twitter.py", li
ne 229, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpreyzoe3x\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", lin
e 1190, in _sort_formats
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure y
ou are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and
include its complete output.

PS C:\Users\Matt\bin>

I notice that Firefox DownloadHelper can't get the video either. I presume Twitter changed how they display video.

[averms]

Seconding this, I can reproduce with the following configuration:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1001551623938805763', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.09
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0, ffprobe 4.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 1001551623938805763: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract OpenGraph title; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\a3\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 789, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "c:\users\a3\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 440, in extract

    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "c:\users\a3\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\twitter.py", line 395, in _real_extract
    username = remove_end(self._og_search_title(webpage), ' on Twitter')
  File "c:\users\a3\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 920, in _og_search_title
    return self._og_search_property('title', html, **kargs)
  File "c:\users\a3\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 908, in _og_search_property
    escaped = self._search_regex(og_regexes, html, name, flags=re.DOTALL, **kargs)
  File "c:\users\a3\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 808, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract OpenGraph title; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

although mine is a regex not found error, i have seen extractor errors occasionally

[adamhotep]

This is true even of videos I've previously pulled without incident. Twitter must have changed something. here's a Debian verbose dump (using latest youtube-dl available in Deb Multimedia):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://twitter.com/KentMurphy/status/990955691878813697']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.05.26
[debug] Python version 3.6.5rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.16.0-1-amd64-x86_64-with-Debian-9.0-stretch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0, ffprobe 4.0, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 990955691878813697: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 990955691878813697: Downloading webpage
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 500, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py", line 229, in _real_extract
    self._sort_formats(formats)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1190, in _sort_formats
    raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[moniesoke]

In fact, videos from May 29th is still downloadable now. However, videos on May 30th are not downloadable at all.

[Kikobeats]

I confirm May 30th introducing a bug there:

Previous build
https://travis-ci.org/microlinkhq/metascraper/builds/385291329

Same build but using youtube-dl Day 30 compilation:
https://travis-ci.org/microlinkhq/metascraper/builds/386107431

[valdotdev]

Same on mine. Using version 2018.05.18

[GarryBettle]

More evidence:

twitter_error.log