twitter issue, this command gallery-dl https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee does not download the image downloaded by this command gallery-dl https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee/status/1337409081825497088

[left1000]

Weird twitter issue.

This command:

gallery-dl https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee

does not download the image downloaded by this command:

gallery-dl https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee/status/1337409081825497088

why? and how do I fix it? (note my guess is this has to do with https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee/status/1337409081825497088 being a pinned tweet potentially? maybe?)

[mikf]

... being a pinned tweet potentially?

That's probably it. Since it already appeared at the top once, outside the "regular" timeline, Twitter doesn't include it at it's usual position in the timeline again.

It is included in the Media timeline though: https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee/media

$ gallery-dl https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee/media
...
1337409081825497088_1.jpg

[left1000]

Doesn't the media timeline include retweets though? Ideally my goal is to grab all the art from a twitter account that isn't retweed, should I switch to /media for that purpose then? and it won't grab unwanted retweets?

[left1000]

Interesting /media grabbed 14 files that the base url didn't.... so it's not JUST pinned tweets? It's a buncha specific ones? I guess?

[left1000]

Hmm, but /media includes tons of pointless retweets I don't want.... I really feel like gallery-dl needs to somehow be able to handle twitter /media -retweets OR twitter.com/username +pins?

[left1000]

Here's an example of a url with tons of unwanted retweets https://twitter.com/kdubs_matt/media because actually https://twitter.com/ProfDocCee/media has virtually no retweets but just because that guy doesn't retweet.

[mikf]

Doesn't the media timeline include retweets though?

It doesn't. Only the regular timeline includes retweets.
There are also several options to explicitly filter retweets, quoted tweets, videos, etc. Search for extractor.twitter. in https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/configuration.rst

For example gallery-dl -o retweets=false <TWITTER URL> would ignore all retweeted content.

Here's an example of a url with tons of unwanted retweets https://twitter.com/kdubs_matt/media

Non of these are considered retweets by Twitter

[left1000]

Okay, so, it's that's twitter's fault and there's nothing gallery-dl can do about it :)

Oh well. It's still weird the pinned tweets aren't grabbed from twitter.com/username I guess all the images I'm calling retweets are reuploads of memes rather than reweets of meme. My bad.

[mikf]

@left1000 25074ae adds support for pinned tweets from twitter.com/username