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Python 3 Twitter & X Video Post Downloader From URL Using Twitter & X API Library in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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download uh Twitter video post inside
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your Python application so we are
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actually using the X and the Twitter API
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inside Python to actually download the
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video post inside X or Twitter so if you
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visit X or Twitter if you have a video
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that you want to
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download so you just need to copy the
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video address this is actually the
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address that you need to copy the URL of
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the video simply copy this and plug this
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inside the script that I will show you
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in this video so let me paste it so as
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soon as you paste this video URL let me
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run this Python script so as I run this
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Python script you will see on the left
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hand side a folder will be created where
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the video will be extracted you can see
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it is downloading this video from
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Twitter and the video has been
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downloaded and it has created this
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folder where the video is present so if
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I see you can play this
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video so you can see 54 second video so
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you can see that so in this easy way
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guys you can uh download any sort of
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video post inside X or Twitter uh for
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this we are using a open-source module
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inside Python which is actually using
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the X and the Twitter API so just go to
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the this website just search for this
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module
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YT- DLP so this is actually a audio and
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video downloader module inside Python
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and it also supports Twitter and X
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website you simply install this module
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and now I will show you step by step let
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me delete everything and start from
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scratch so here you first of all need to
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import this module right here so we
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simply say import YT DLP after importing
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this we also need the operating system
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module and here we specify the video URL
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so here you need to paste the address of
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whichever video you want to download let
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me take a different example let me take
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this video i simply copy this address of
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the video and paste it and then this
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module contains this
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function to download the video so you
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first of all need to give it a name with
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the extension so like this so it will
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create this folder downloaded videos
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inside this it will actually copy the
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title of the video plus the extension
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like this so after this we need to make
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the directory for this we will call the
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operating system module so make
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directories and inside this we
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specify the name of the directory so
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this will be downloaded videos you can
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call this anything let me change it to
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result and comma here the second
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argument here if the directory already
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exist then you don't need to create
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other directory so exist okay to true
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after creating the directory now this is
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the main business logic of this module
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so ytdl here you specify the options so
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inside this JSON object we have three
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options so output template the format
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and the extension of the result file so
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we specify all these three options right
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here which is you can see the output
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template the format of the video so here
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you can select which quality of the
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video you want so I want the best video
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best audio you can select whichever
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quality of the video you want and lastly
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we need to have the video in MP4 format
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so after you specify all these options
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we can actually call this method YT DLP
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dot YouTube DL and here you specify the
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options and then as YDL and after that
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we call this function which is download
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which will actually download the video
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by the URL so this is actually the
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script here in the behind the scenes it
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is using the X and the Twitter API to
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communicate with the Twitter server so
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once you execute the script now go to
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the
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terminal and just type python app py so
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you will see it will create this
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uh
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folder you can see the result folder has
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been created
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and you will see the video has been
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successfully
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downloaded so you can see 14 second long
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video so it is there in the MP4 format
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so in this easy way you can download any
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post any video post from Twitter or X
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using this Python script really easily
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you can replace any po any video right
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here
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just select any video so just copy
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this and just paste inside the
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script so as soon as you paste it you
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will able to download this so once again
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do
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this you'll see the downloading so the
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good thing about this module you don't
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require any API key or uh there is no
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kind of limitation you can download
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unlimited number of videos just the
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script you just need the URL after you
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have the URL you can actually download
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the video from X or Twitter so thank you
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very much for watching this video and
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