youtube-dl -g for twitter videos gives link to m3u8 file

[vaibhav1312]

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$ youtube-dl -v -g 'https://twitter.com/YesIamSaffron/status/776475475858173954'
[debug] System config: []
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[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'-g', u'https://twitter.com/TrollKejri/status/776307587314614272']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
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[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0, ffprobe 3.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/776444641944010752/pl/640x360/KDt2ddRttDFduxGV.m3u8
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Earlier it used to extract the link to the mp4 file, now it just gives link to m3u8 file.

[dstftw]

It gives you a link to whatever is served by twitter.

[vaibhav1312]

But the m3u8 format does not play in the media player, and also there is a link to the mp4/video file
"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/776444641944010752/vid/640x360/CRxt59VOd4NPVnMi.mp4"

So which means it mp4 format can be extracted from twitter, and also m3u8 is not a video format.

Any help would be great.
Thanks

[dstftw]

No mp4 for me in browser.

[vaibhav1312]

If there was a link to mp4 file in html code of tweet, I would have extracted it already. Its just the link can be accessed from api, and there must be some other way to get it.

[yan12125]

The mp4 link is available with User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:48.0) Gecko/48.0 Firefox/48.0.

But the m3u8 format does not play in the media player

Which player are you using? Both VLC and mpv works for me.

[vaibhav1312]

Can you just post the command with the user agent, which gives the mp4 link.

I tried this command
youtube-dl -v -g --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:48.0) Gecko/48.0 Firefox/48.0.' 'https://twitter.com/YesIamSaffron/status/776475475858173954'
But its not working.

I want to give user the mp4 link, so that he/she can download the video.
Thanks

[yan12125]

It requires writing new codes.

[vaibhav1312]

It throws this error

File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info ie_result = ie.extract(url) File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract return self._real_extract(url) File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py", line 294, in _real_extract username = remove_end(self._og_search_title(webpage), ' on Twitter') File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 762, in _og_search_title return self._og_search_property('title', html, **kargs) File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 750, in _og_search_property escaped = self._search_regex(og_regexes, html, name, flags=re.DOTALL, **kargs) File "/Users/vaibhav/git_projects/downloadenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 650, in _search_regex raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name) 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.

Of if you can point me to the direction of solution, that would be very helpful of you.
Thank you

[yan12125]

Just changing the User-Agent does not work. You need to modify youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py.

By the way, most media players I know support m3u8 URLs. Or do you want to support something like Windows Media Player?

[vaibhav1312]

I'm making a downloader for twitter, where user will enter the tweet url & youtube-dl will extract the mp4 link of the video file and give it to the user, so user can download directly from the twitter CDN.

Earlier youtube-dl was able to extract mp4 links, but i think twitter made some changes in its code.