Periscope video in tweet

[RingoTheDog]

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C:\>youtube-dl.py -v "https://twitter.com/OPP_HSD/status/779210622571536384"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://twitter.com/OPP_HSD/status/7792106225
71536384']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.03
[debug] Python version 3.5.1 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-71346-gdf4fca2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 779210622571536384: Downloading webpage
ERROR: There's no video in this tweet.; please report this issue on https://yt-d
l.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to
update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its compl
ete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 691, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\twitter.py", line 340, in _real_ex
tract
    raise ExtractorError('There\'s no video in this tweet.')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: There's no video in this tweet.; please report
this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you 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.
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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/OPP_HSD/status/779210622571536384

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Apparently you can tweet a periscope video...who knew??
The direct periscope link (https://www.periscope.tv/OPP_HSD/1zqKVVlkqLaKB?t=7) does download correctly...but the the "tweeted" version does not.

Thanks
Ringo

[yan12125]

Thanks for the report. Periscope videos in tweets will be recognized in the next version.