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Spark-NF / twitter_media_downloader

Twitter media downloader.
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Not downloading #8

Closed Purefreeman closed 5 years ago

Purefreeman commented 6 years ago

Python 3.6.4 windows 10

ran this code in the cmd: twitter_media_downloader.py -o out -f checking -s large -u twitter (The reason why i didn't use -f '[%date%] %filename% %ext%' was it always result in this error "twitter_media_downloader.py: error: unrecognized arguments: %filename% %ext%' twitter")

Tweets: 2809
Retweets: 0
Parsed: 2809
Files: 1
Urls:
- periscope: 0
- instagram: 0
- others: 254
Text only: 1617
Total: 1872
checking: ok
Spark-NF commented 5 years ago

Hello 😄

Sorry for the (very very) late reply. That's expected, since you used "checking" as filename: all files will be named "checking", so only one will be downloaded. That's what the last line of the log says, the "checking" file has been downloaded successfully:

checking: ok

If you want to download everything properly, you need to have unique filenames, such as "%filename% %ext%", or whichever you want.

Your "error: unrecognized arguments" is caused by using single quotes instead of double quotes around the -f parameter. I updated the README to use double quotes, as single quotes indeed don't work properly on Windows.