

You are done! The biggest file usually retains the highest quality available. This will give you all possible resolutions of the video available on Twitter.

Youtube-dl will download the video and save it as MP4 to its folder (C:\apps\youtube-dl in my case).

I suggest you to download 32-bit static build of FFMpeg binaries.

To merge the downloaded video fragments (Twitter splits videos into pieces for faster streaming), it needs FFmpeg. Yet another tool is required to assist youtube-dl. Don't forget to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) as mentioned on the download page. I will place the it under C:\apps\youtube-dl\youtube-dl.exe. Just download it to a convenient location. The youtube-dl app is a portable tool that doesn't require installation. If you are a Linux user, there's a great chance that you already have it available in the package repository. Grab youtube-dl and its dependencies from HERE. In fact, the list of supported services by the app is really HUGE. Youtube-dlĪnother thing we need is youtube-dl, a cross-platform command line tool that allows downloading and converting videos on the fly from various web sources, including Twitter. I will use Google Chrome, which allows opening Developer Tools with the Ctrl + Shift + I hotkey. Luckily, all modern browsers comes with such an option. To be able to download a video from a DM, you need a browser with Developer Tools integrated. To Download a Video From Direct Message on Twitter, Prerequisites The browser
