tweet includes a video accompanied with picture(s)

[TwitterToTelegram]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• 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

[twitter] 1643027903897010178: Downloading guest token
[twitter] 1643027903897010178: Downloading JSON metadata
[twitter] 1643027903897010178: Downloading JSON metadata
[twitter] 1643027903897010178: Downloading JSON metadata
[twitter] 1643027903897010178: Downloading JSON metadata
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[twitter] 1643027903897010178: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests

Description

On Twitter, if a tweet includes two videos or includes a video that is accompanied by pictures, it constantly says "Downloading JSON metadata" on Python 3.9.9 executed using VS Code. And at the end, the video is not downloaded.

Example tweet's URL given to youtb-dl:

https://twitter.com/Aiydin4KSTUV/status/1643027903897010178

The tweet includes a short url as "https://t.co/06IqPawxe8" that if expanded becomes "https://twitter.com/Aiydin4KSTUV/status/1643027903897010178/video/1". Giving the expanded url did not work either.

The Python code is:

import youtube_dl
wlink=r"https://twitter.com/Aiydin4KSTUV/status/1643027903897010178"
ydl_opts = {'outtmpl': filename
,'forceduration':True
,'quiet': False}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download([wlink])

[dirkf]

I think this is #31281, which will be fixed once someone gets around to back-porting the yt-dlp extractor and assuming that Twitter is still operating and still offering the APIs used by the extractor.

[october262]

if you just want the video, click on where it says share - click copy link to tweet
and do youtube-dl -o '%(title).20s' "https://twitter.com/Aiydin4KSTUV/status/1643026535790551040?s=20"
to download the video. you may have to add .mp4 to the end of the file name once it is downloaded.

[dirkf]

Closing as duplicate of #31281.