You can view the links yourself and pipe them to other programs such as wget. Since the Twitter API is time-limited, the time python package is also very important for inserting a fifteen-minute timeout between batches of retrieved tweets. It hits the Twitter API as little as possible to retrieve photos links and download each link separately. However, when I use the statuses/show endpoint, it doesn't return any extended entity for the video as it would an image, but instead returns a url entity linking to some video container embed with a video player containing an obscure link to the video. The command-line front-end of Twitter Photos, twphotos, downloads photos from specified Twitter accounts into individual directories each named after username. Run threads which has a event loop to download resources asynchronously. but in many cases refereed to images, videos or links which are.

I am trying to use the Twitter API to import a video from a given tweet. Texts were retrieved using the twitter API linking to brand username and/or special.

Twitter video download using python api