Twitter Video Thread Downloader
Because sometimes, you just want to dowload that entire TikTok thread and watch them all on the big screen.
Requirements
expects to find ffmpeg, idk, somewhere in your path.
(TODO: add an option to specify ffmpeg location)
Usage
npx twitter-video-threads [options] <tweetID>
Fetch all videos from a Twitter (TikTok) thread
Positionals:
tweetID The ID of the most recent tweet to begin working backward from
[string]
Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
-k, --api-key Your Twitter API key (will overwrite env variable `TWITTER
_API_KEY`) [string] [required]
-d, --destination Download destination folder for videos.
[string] [default: ~/Downloads]
-l, --limit Limit the total number of tweets to process.
[number] [default: Infinity]
-s, --stop-at A tweet ID at which point to stop recursively downloading.
Helpful if you've already downloaded this thread before.
[string]
--through-date A date through which to download. Format as YYYY-MM-DD or
any other string Date.parse can make sense of. [string]
-v, --verbose Chatty logs. More "v"s for more logging.
[count] [default: 0]
--help Show help [boolean]Some examples
First, I want to archive all of the videos from this thread, starting at 1368126334824837123, and save them in ~/Movies/TikToks
npx twitter-video-threads -k SAMPLEAPIKEY123456789 -d $HOME/Movies/TikToks 1368126334824837123Now I'm going to move that API key into my shell's environment. There are new tweets in the thread, so I want to archive just the ones that were posted since my last archive.
export 'TWITTER_API_KEY=SAMPLEAPIKEY123456789'
npx twitter-video-threads --stop-at 1368126334824837123 1384389220912050179In fact, all of the possible options can also be passed in as environment variables prepended with TWITTER_ if you really want, i.e. TWITTER_DESTINATION, TWITTER_LIMIT, TWITTER_STOP_AT
Today I just want to archive this one because it keeps making me giggle.
npx twitter-video-threads --limit 1 1386693203936559105Development
Easy-peasy, all the functional code is in src/index.ts. To run uncompiled during development:
npm run dev -- [options] <tweetID>To compile
npm run prepublishTo run local compiled version
./run.js [options] <tweetId>
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