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Spark-NF / twitter_media_downloader

Twitter media downloader.
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hardcoded No retweets #5

Closed sethcohn closed 7 years ago

sethcohn commented 7 years ago

The 'use retweets' api argument include_rts is hardcoded to false. Should be an argument to change this.

sethcohn commented 7 years ago

Gah, complicatedly this only works for some retweets. A retweeted extended_entities using tweet (ie multiple images or video) doesn't work correctly (it shows up as empty, despite the retweeted tweet having multiple images). Gonna take some work.

Spark-NF commented 7 years ago

The issue you must have faced is that when you enable retweets, the object returned by the API is not the original retweeted tweet but simply the "RT ..." message and a pointer to the original tweet.

The actual data is included in the retweeted_status of the tweet object, which itself contains the proper extended_entities information.

I just added a -r / --retweets argument to enable downloading medias from retweets, thanks for the suggestion :+1:

If you want to use the original date (so the posting date of the original tweet, not the retweet date), you can use %original_date% instead of %date%.