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unable to download a twitter link #19072

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sant527 opened this issue Jan 30, 2019 · 0 comments
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unable to download a twitter link #19072

sant527 opened this issue Jan 30, 2019 · 0 comments

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@sant527 sant527 commented Jan 30, 2019

I got the below error when downloading a twitter video:

https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1077760985186947072


$ youtube-dl --verbose -F https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1077760985186947072
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-F', 'https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1077760985186947072']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.26.1
[debug] Python version 3.6.4 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.14-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.2, ffprobe 3.4.2, phantomjs 18, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[twitter] 1077760985186947072: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] 1077760985186947072: Downloading webpage
ERROR: No video formats found; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 785, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 440, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py", line 229, in _real_extract
    self._sort_formats(formats)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 1083, in _sort_formats
    raise ExtractorError('No video formats found')
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: No video formats found; 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.


But i am able to download the recent twitter links. its dated back to december.

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