Twitter Video Downloader is a web extension for Google Chrome and derivatives (e.g., Chromium or Brave) that lets you download videos from Twitter, even videos from private accounts (but you have to be signed in and follow that user). You navigate to a Twitter post with the video you want and then click the icon in the toolbar to view a popup showing links to download the video.

Twitter Video Downloader is free and open open source software, Apache-2.0 licensed. Twitter Video Downloader respects your privacy; it does not depend on a third-party server, besides those of Twitter of course. No logs are stored or sent anywhere.

• Lets you download videos from private/protected accounts on Twitter. AFAIK, this extension is the only known tool to accomplish this.
• Also lets you download public videos.
• Free and open source software.
• No third-party servers or logging.

• youtube-dl: command line application; less convenient and cannot download from private profiles
• a bunch of buggy Chrome extensions not worth mentioning

Warning: May be outdated as Chrome Web Store takes time to approve

Install from Chrome Web Store

$ git clone https://github.com/proprietary/twitter-video-downloader
$ cd twitter-video-downloader/chrome-extension/twitter-video-downloader
$ npm install
$ npm run build

Then, in Chrome:

1. Go to chrome://extensions.
2. Toggle developer mode.
3. Load unpacked button at the top left of the window.
4. Open directory at twitter-video-downloader/chrome-extension/twitter-video-downloader/dist.

• [ ] Port to standard Web Extensions so that it can work on Mozilla Firefox
• [ ] Add testing w/ Jest, Enzyme, etc.

Twitter Video Downloader is not affiliated with Twitter.

If you are a representative of Twitter and want me to take this down, or for any concerns, please direct message me @zelcon on Twitter. This is not a commercial project. It adds what I think is an essential feature to Twitter's user experience, but if you want it gone, contact me first with such a request before going after the platforms this code is hosted on.

If you are a user and want to report issues, you can also reach me @zelcon.

Apache-2.0