Twitter unsupported URL error

[dmitriykalmykov]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.03.24
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

youtube-dl.exe -v "https://twitter.com/VictorKvert2008/statuses/1251621111357456384"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://twitter.com/VictorKvert2008/statuses/1251621111357456384']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.03.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 1251621111357456384: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 1251621111357456384: Downloading webpage
[generic] 1251621111357456384: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://twitter.com/VictorKvert2008/statuses/1251621111357456384
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp378onz6j\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 797, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp378onz6j\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 530, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmp378onz6j\build\youtube_dl\extractor\generic.py", line 3351, in _real_extract
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://twitter.com/VictorKvert2008/statuses/1251621111357456384

Description

Can't download some videos from Twitter (unsupported URL error).

[zanseb]

Could you try with this url? https://twitter.com/i/status/1251621111357456384

It looks like that the currently used regex is not working as expected if the url contains statuses:

• https://regex101.com/r/Fv38pg/3

- https?://(?:(?:www|m(?:obile)?)\.)?twitter\.com/(?:(?:i/web|[^/]+)/status|statuses)/(?P<id>\d+)
+ https?://(?:(?:www|m(?:obile)?)\.)?twitter\.com/(?:(?:i/web|[^/]+)/(status|statuses))/(?P<id>\d+)

The regex seems to work after adding some round brackets around the or (status|statuses) condition.

• https://regex101.com/r/Fv38pg/4

[Oneboy1979]

you need only the id so this regex is better:
https?://(?:(?:www|m(?:obile)?)\.)?twitter\.com/(?:(?:i/web|[^/]+)/(?:status|statuses))/(?P<id>\d+)

https://regex101.com/r/Fv38pg/6

regards Oneboy1979

[dmitriykalmykov]

Could you try with this url? https://twitter.com/i/status/1251621111357456384

Yes, this URL works. Thanks!