Twitter video does not work

[zackees]

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Twitter video does not work for me in yt-dlp

Repo case:
yt-dlp https://twitter.com/RetroCutsTube/status/1596209604962258945?s=20&t=NBOUsrqJxon-1WJIguegqg

I tried to use the -F and -f options to select the video explicitly and it does not work.

I'm using 2022.11.11.

Fix looks like to be to sanitize the title of the video when saving for a file.

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$ [debug] Command-line config: ['-vU', 'https://twitter.com/RetroCutsTube/status/1596209604962258945?s=20']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.11.11 [8b64402] (pip) 
[debug] Python 3.10.8 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1q  5 Jul 2022) 
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2021-10-30-git-d92fdc7144-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev (setts), ffprobe 5.0-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev 
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.16.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.09.24, mutagen-1.46.0, sqlite3-2.6.0, websockets-10.4 
[debug] Proxy map: {} 
[debug] Loaded 1723 extractors 
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2022.11.11, Current version: 2022.11.11 
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.11.11) 
[debug] [twitter] Extracting URL: https://twitter.com/RetroCutsTube/status/1596209604962258945?s=20 
[twitter] 1596209604962258945: Downloading guest token 
[twitter] 1596209604962258945: Downloading JSON metadata 
[debug] [twitter] Extracting from video info: 1596200424507326464 
[twitter] 1596209604962258945: Downloading m3u8 information 
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: res, br, size, proto 
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, res, tbr, vbr, abr, filesize, fs_approx, proto, lang, quality, fps, hdr:12(7), vcodec:vp9.2(10), channels, acodec, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo*+bestaudio/best
[info] 1596200424507326464: Downloading 1 format(s): http-2176
[debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1596200424507326464/pu/vid/1280x720/jpsUCtXbz5ONw6hK.mp4?tag=12" 
[download] Unable to open file: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'Retro Cuts (M.A)🎚️ - Never gonna give  you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around
 and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you🎶  Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (1987)❤️ #Ret
roCutsTube #music [1596200424507326464].mp4.part'. Retrying (1/3)...
[download] Unable to open file: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'Retro Cuts (M.A)🎚️ - Never gonna give  you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around
 and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you🎶  Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (1987)❤️ #Ret
roCutsTube #music [1596200424507326464].mp4.part'. Retrying (2/3)...
[download] Unable to open file: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'Retro Cuts (M.A)🎚️ - Never gonna give  you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around
 and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you🎶  Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (1987)❤️ #Ret
roCutsTube #music [1596200424507326464].mp4.part'. Retrying (3/3)...
ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'Retro Cuts (M.A)🎚️ - Never gonna give yo u up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run aro
und and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you🎶  Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (1987)❤️ #
RetroCutsTube #music [1596200424507326464].mp4.part'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\utils.py", line 640, in sanitize_open
    raise LockingUnsupportedError()
yt_dlp.utils.LockingUnsupportedError: File locking is not supported

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\http.py", line 267, in download
    ctx.stream, ctx.tmpfilename = self.sanitize_open(
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 230, in wrapper
    for retry in RetryManager(self.params.get('file_access_retries'), error_callback, fd=self):
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\utils.py", line 5921, in __iter__
    self.error_callback(self.error, self.attempt, self.retries)
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 223, in error_callback
    return RetryManager.report_retry(
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\utils.py", line 5929, in report_retry
    raise e
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 232, in wrapper
    return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\downloader\common.py", line 243, in sanitize_open
    f, filename = sanitize_open(filename, open_mode)
  File "C:\Users\niteris\dev\transcribe-anything\venv\lib\site-packages\yt_dlp\utils.py", line 643, in sanitize_open
    stream = open(filename, open_mode)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'Retro Cuts (M.A)🎚️ - Never gonna give you up Never gonna let  you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never g
onna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you🎶  Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (1987)❤️ #RetroCutsTube #music [1596
200424507326464].mp4.part'

[pukkandan]

#1136 (comment)

[zackees]

For those hitting this bug, you can do a work around by explicitly saving the output using the title template which apparently does perform sanitation for the filename, add:

-o %(title).%(ext)s

As your output and it should work.

[GoldenMaximo]

Thanks @zackees

[bhekidaweti]

For those hitting this bug, you can do a work around by explicitly saving the output using the title template which apparently does perform sanitation for the filename, add:

-o %(title).%(ext)s

As your output and it should work.

How can this be implemented for a web app