Is there a way to access the direct video href/url for an embedded Twitter video? As I looked at the page code it's not written there and the direct .mp4 url seems to contain unique text.
For example this video:
https://twitter.com/shigaofficial/status/1273207731453702146
The missing video url would be:
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1273207566537900032/pu/vid/1280x720/G6JeCs0pl8A638rQ.mp4
What is best way in Selenium to resolve it?
Use this API URL format to get the Tweet data:
'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show/1234567890.json?tweet_mode=extended';
And as a result, you will receive the following JSON:
"extended_entities": {
"media": [
{
"video_info": {
"variants": [
{
"content_type": "application/x-mpegURL",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1234567890.m3u8"
},
{
"bitrate": 2176000,
"content_type": "video/mp4",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1234567890.mp4"
},
{
"bitrate": 256000,
"content_type": "video/mp4",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1234567890.mp4"
},
{
"bitrate": 832000,
"content_type": "video/mp4",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1234567890.mp4"
}
]
},
}
]
},