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In fact, some would argue that Twitter gives Facebook a run for its money. Thanks to Roman Linev for his assistance and suggestions.Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most prevalent social media platforms today.

Also, you can follow my personal account: Sergey Tkachenko on Twitter. So, if you start with the last line, there is a chance that you will get the best video quality available directly. Note: From our observation, the last m3u8 link in the list points to the stream of highest quality. Check out all the files and pick the one which plays best for you. 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.

Repeat the steps for other m3u8 links.

Now, copy the link address for the next m3u8 entry, and download the video.

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

In the list below, right-click on the row in the Name column, and select Copy link address.

Press CTRL+SHIFT+I to open Developer Tools in Chrome and switch to the Network tab.

Switch to Direct Messages and open the conversation you want to download a video from.

Open Twitter in Google Chrome and sign-in to your account.

Open a command prompt in the folder where you have youtube-dl and leave it open.

To Download a Video From Direct Message on Twitter, Now, let's grab some video from Twitter DMs. Here is the actual direct link at the moment of writing.Įxtract the contents of the bin folder to the c:\apps\youtube-dl folder to get all the ffmpeg windows binaries stored under the same folder. 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