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I’m trying to fetch a tweet’s video url using API V2.
Using API V1.1 I can use
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=<ID>&include_entities=true
and get the direct mp4 urls in the response at
extended_entities.media[0].video_info.variants
But using API V2 I can’t seem to find any ways to get those, I was only able to get the video thumbnail but not the actual video.
I’ve tried it with both the lookup and the recent search endpoints but couldn’t find a way to do that.
In lookup docs twitter says:
This endpoint was recently graduated from Twitter Developer Labs, and is the replacement of v1.1 statuses/show, v1.1 statuses/lookup, and Labs Tweet lookup. If you are currently using any of these endpoints, you can use our migration materials to start working with this new endpoint.
but that doesn’t seem to be the case, is that feature not included ? Also if there is any other way to be able to embed a twitter video in a web page (without the tweet text) that’d be helpful.
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The videos are not currently available in the Twitter API v2 at this time. This is a known request.
Progress on twitter-api-v2 media handling, Maybe this will allow the video URLs too in the response.
https://twittercommunity.com/t/v1-1-media-endpoints-available-for-essential-access-in-the-twitter-api-v2/171664
For those who still looking for an answer, you can do it on the V2 by adding the following parameters :
Your final link should give
https://api.twitter.com/2/users/{{uid}}/tweets?expansions=attachments.media_keys&media.fields=variantsSource : https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/data-dictionary/object-model/media