Open TheMissingPort opened 2 years ago
The option name is either -u
or --username
, not both. Similarly with -p
. So no commas, either.
The short names are convenient; the long names can be better in scripts that people may want to read without having to look up what each option means.
Also, it's possible that the login procedure doesn't work in the Twitter extractor (any longer, if it did). You may need to use --cookies ...
, for which read the manual.
The option name is either
-u
or--username
, not both. Similarly with-p
. So no commas, either.The short names are convenient; the long names can be better in scripts that people may want to read without having to look up what each option means.
Also, it's possible that the login procedure doesn't work in the Twitter extractor (any longer, if it did). You may need to use
--cookies ...
, for which read the manual.
Thanks for the response. I updated my line but I still get "unsupported URL" error. Is there something else im missing?
it looks like this now (changed my info to "username" for privacy)
youtube-dl -u username -p password! https://twitter.com/username
The extractor module for Twitter doesn't extract an entire profile. Things like these might work:
The extractor module for Twitter doesn't extract an entire profile. Things like these might work:
Is it possible to extract all media from a profile?
use gallery-dl instead and read my issue\ https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2588
Here is the line of code I enter in terminal. I put in my own username and password
This is what I get:
[generic] Username: Requesting header WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor. [generic] Username: Downloading webpage [generic] Username: Extracting information ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://twitter.com/Username
Any ideas? Thanks