youtube-dl should integrate a recent a upstream patch that fixes downloading .mp4/.gifs from Twitter
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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youtube-dl (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When attempting to download a .gif files from Twitter (which are actually .mp4 files, but Twitter calls them .gifs anyway) using youtube-dl, it errors-out as follows:
---- SNIP -----
youtube-dl https:/
[twitter] XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: Downloading webpage
[twitter:card] XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: Downloading webpage
ERROR: No video formats found; please report this issue on https:/
----- /SNIP -----
However, upstream has fixed this issue recently, and their commit can be found here:
https:/
Replacing ``/usr/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: youtube-dl 2018.03.14-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jul 3 13:27:33 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-16 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: youtube-dl
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)