Automatically download each tweet in a ThreadReaderApp-archived Twitter thread. This will also download all the media in each of the tweets using TWMD

To use this docker container:

docker run -v <dir_on_hostOS_for_downloads>/:/workdir -it sa7ori/threadreader_downloader

it will launch right into the downloader asking for a URL.

Then after everything has run, you'll get a directory like this:

Note: <dir_on_hostOS_for_downloads> is the fully qualified path of the directory that will be shared into the docker container. The container will download and log everything into that shared directory so it is available on the host.

Example:

docker run -v /home/s7ephen/great_twitterthread/:/workdir -it sa7ori/threadreader_downloader

https://hub.docker.com/r/sa7ori/threadreader_downloader

To use the tools inside the container like m3u8_download to download media from a m3u8 link, use:

docker run -v <dir_on_hostOS_for_downloads>/:/workdir -it sa7ori/threadreader_downloader bash

To use m3u8_download:

m3u8_download https://urltosome/file/hosted/somwhere/v5dpHSFzJ33kY-QQ.m3u8 tweet_20.mp4

This will use ffmpeg to parse and follow/download all the m3u8 interlinked files and download (and reassemble) the media fragments and save to tweet_20.mp4 or whatever filename you give it.

You can use this to download videos directly from twitter also. To do this:

• Turn on your browser's "Developer Tools"
• Load (or reload) the tweet URL in your browser.
• In the "Network" tab, enter m3u8 into the "filter"
• If you see no results, refresh the page.
• When a result appears (usually the first one) right clip and "Copy URL"
• Paste that full URL into m3u8_download.

Example: fetching the m3u8 running m3u8_download

m3u8_download 'https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1763235266049777665/pu/pl/2fbRnL9S1NDv6Wcw.m3u8?variant_version=1&tag=12&container=cmaf' video.mp4

This whole repo was just a quick-hack so it isnt polished up to take command-line, arguments or have features like reading URLs from a file (as input).

I dont know who would find this useful (I make similar notes like this for myself, like I'm writing to a dumber future-self), but here is a simple mod to download multiple Twitter threads using what's here...with minimal asspain.

So to download multiple Twitter threads. Put all the URLs in a text file (one per line) then: while read in; do ./download_threadreaderapp_thread.py "$in"; done < threads_to_download.txt then you'll have a directry like this: