Unable to download a tweeted video from Twitter on the web

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$ youtube-dl --verbose https://twitter.com/AlifAilaan/status/1001523575386341376
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://twitter.com/AlifAilaan/status/1001523575386341376']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.02
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Linux-4.16.12-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0, ffprobe 4.0, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 1001523575386341376: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 1001523575386341376: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 1001523575386341376: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests (caused by <HTTPError 429: 'Too Many Requests'>); 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.
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 579, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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The issue only occurs with Twitter ; Facebook and Youtube work fine. All tweet urls containing a tweeted video give the same error.

[filler56789]

I confirm the problem. I'm also using the latest youtube-dl under x64 Windows 7. I suppose /assume Twitter changed something during this week, because I could download some videos from Twitter three or four days ago and reverting to the previous build(s) of youtube-dl doesn't work.

[RingoTheDog]

FWIW....if you run YouTube-DL against the direct video mentioned above it does download correctly:
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1001498432052350976/pl/1280x720/dG4ypLu7EKJV5o6E.m3u8

So I guess it is an embed issue? @

[BlohoJo]

I'm seeing the issue as well.

E:\USER\temp_ytdl>youtube-dl --verbose "https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/
971208968323280896"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://twitter.com/electrolemon/statu
s/971208968323280896']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.02
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-2008ServerR2-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-89595-g40d4b13228, ffprobe N-89595-g40d4b13228, r
tmpdump 2.4-20151223-gfa8646d-OpenSSL_1.0.2n-x86_64-static
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 971208968323280896: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 971208968323280896: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 971208968323280896: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests (caus
ed by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sur
e you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to c
all youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp2pwxs9zy\bu
ild\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 579, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp2pwxs9zy\bu
ild\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 470, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 580, in http_response
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 508, in error
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 588, in http_error_defau
lt

The video is actually not playing on Twitter, and when I look at the uBlock log, I don't see any video.twimg or m3u8 links, so it may actually be an issue with the Twitter site itself?

It does work on a third party twitter video download website.

[Hrxn]

Well, HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests, should be a temporary issue then.

[filler56789]

Hrxn wrote:

Well, HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests, should be a temporary issue then.

Keep in mind that error messages often do NOT mean what they say.