Twitter: Unsupported URL

[RingoTheDog]

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

youtube-dl.py -v "https://twitter.com/i/web/status/910031516746514432"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://twitter.com/i/web/status/910031516746514432']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.15
[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: {}
[generic] 910031516746514432: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 910031516746514432: Downloading webpage
[generic] 910031516746514432: Extracting information
[redirect] Following redirect to https://mobile.twitter.com/i/nojs_router?path=/i/web/status/910031516746514432
[generic] 910031516746514432: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/910031516746514432
[generic] 910031516746514432: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 910031516746514432: Downloading webpage
[generic] 910031516746514432: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/910031516746514432
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "C:\Transmogrifier\youtube-dl.py\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 2964, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/910031516746514432


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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/i/web/status/910031516746514432
- Single video: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/910031516746514432

(same video...similar result)

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### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information

Direct link to video does work, using generic extractor/FFMPEG:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/910030238373089285/pu/pl/1280x720/Ckxc5Q4SjNkjNVw5.m3u8

Thanks
Ringo

[RingoTheDog]

The redirect page: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/nojs_router?path=/i/web/status/910031516746514432

contains a link to the URL: https://twitter.com/Prefet971/status/910031516746514432/video/1

`

[Direct] <a href="/hashtag/Maria?src=hash"data-query-source="hashtag_click"class="twitter-hashtag dir-ltr"dir="ltr">#Maria Le centre se trouve actuellement au sud de Basse-Terre. Restez confinés. Réfugiez-vous dans la pièce la + sûre. <a href="https://t.co/mwx01Rs4lo"data-pre-embedded="true"rel="nofollow"data-entity-id="910030238373089285"dir="ltr"data-url="https://twitter.com/Prefet971/status/910031516746514432/video/1"data-tco-id="mwx01Rs4lo"class="twitter_external_link dir-ltr tco-link has-expanded-path"target="_top"data-expanded-path="/Prefet971/status/910031516746514432/video/1">pic.twitter.com/mwx01Rs4lo

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YouTube-DL downloades the video from this page correctly.