[TWITTER] past broadcasts are not downloading

[AdamSaketume26]

gallery-dl -o extractor.twitter.cards="true" https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqGoANwQpNxv
[gallery-dl][error] No suitable extractor found for 'https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqGoANwQpNxv'

i tried searching for issues and i saw 2875 #937 but those urls dont have /i/broadcast. they say enable twitter cards but i did and still doesnt work for me

version 1.23

[mikf]

Just download it with yt-dlp/youtube-dl. Links that can only be downloaded via HLS or DASH would need ytdl support with gallery-dl anyway, so you might as well use it directly.

Or you invoke ytdl with gallery-dl: gallery-dl ytdl:https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqGoANwQpNxv

[AdamSaketume26]

but these are past broadcasts so archived videos of the broadcast. gallery-dl still cant download them?

if its still not appropriate could you make an option so if it encounters broadcasts it invokes ytdl automatically? because i dont think ytdl supports scraping all tweets for broadcasts like gallerydl does

[mikf]

You can make gallery-dl automatically invoke ytdl by setting cards to "ytdl"
and using the actual Tweet URL or a timeline URL. /i/broadcasts/ URLs will remain unsupported.

$ gallery-dl -o cards=ytdl https://twitter.com/BSSportsbook/status/1575640086766653440
/tmp/twitter/BSSportsbook/1575640086766653440_1.mp4

[AdamSaketume26]

to make sure can i do that and use https://twitter.com/BSSportsbook/ instead to download all broadcasts if it finds them?

[mikf]

Yeah, that works. It will also download all other media though, which you could partially filter with
--filter "extension not in ('jpg', 'png')"

[AdamSaketume26]

got it i will create a separate run using this to only get past video broadcasts

could i also use cards whitelist to only include "twitter.com/i/broadcasts"?

[mikf]

There is no cards whitelist option, only a blacklist one.

Also, in addition to the filter from #2985 (comment), you can add 'mp4' to the list to ignore regular videos. Anything that gets downloaded with ytdl does not have a filename extension when --filter gets checked, meaning it will only download cards videos that use ytdl.

[AdamSaketume26]

I noticed this doesnt work because the graphql endpoint used shows all media. if someone is livestreaming a twitter broadcast when you click media on their twitter account the broadcast card is not there so this doesnt work

the broadcast card is only listed under their tweets. is there a way to tell gallerydl to look at the first 10 tweets to get all cards and other media from it instead?

[mikf]

the broadcast card is only listed under their tweets

Then try https://twitter.com/USER/tweets as URL or set strategy to "tweets"

is there a way to tell gallerydl to look at the first 10 tweets to get all cards and other media from it instead?

Not exactly. You could try --range 1-10, but that restricts it to the first 10 files, not tweets.

[AdamSaketume26]

I tried that and it works now ty! But I wish it wasn't blocking the thread while downloading the livestream so other content can download at the same time.

[AdamSaketume26]

for people in the future you can add audiospaces to your cards blacklist to avoid spaces