No Suitable extractor found for twitter

[wankio]

But in see twitter in supported site, why it dont have extractor ? thank

and in the future once it supported in gallery-dl , can it have two op to download : only tweet or tweet/retweeted ?

[mikf]

It does have an extractor, but only for single tweets.

Getting an API key required a mobile phone number the last time I checked and I didn't really want to give mine to Twitter, so I've only implemented the most basic stuff.

[wankio]

oh so now you need api key?

[Hrxn]

Semi-related:
Is Twitter actually useful here, for hosting images or something? I don't use it, so please forgive me if this question seems stupid. I mean, I'm aware that you can upload and share images on Twitter, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone really using this, apart from maybe less than a dozen pictures on a profile.
Are there actually something like galleries etc. on Twitter?

[mikf]

Quite a few artists who are/were active on Pixiv, for example, are uploading their work on Twitter first before uploading them to Pixiv a few hours or even days later and some have ditched Pixiv altogether and are now using Twitter exclusively. Twitter is absolutely terrible in terms of preserving image quality, but that didn't stop them from using it.

As for something like galleries: https://twitter.com/PicturesEarth
Some accounts are dedicated to just posting images.

[Hrxn]

I see, thanks..

Never heard of that before, artists leaving Pixiv. Is there any good reason to do so? Because as you said, Twitter seems to have pretty bad image quality.
This was also my main gripe with Instagram in the past.. but it seems that they've changed that recently, good news.

As for something like galleries: https://twitter.com/PicturesEarth

Has not been updated since Dec 2015, it seems. So much for dedication 😄
Image quality is also pretty questionable here, in my opinion. Heavy compression artifacts, small image size.. looks like stuff randomly pulled from the Internet. Although if you use the image search functionality of any of the big search engines, you will get a lot better results for something like this.

[mikf]

As it turns out, there is a difference between

• a user's timeline: https://twitter.com/62_skb
• and his Media Tweets: https://twitter.com/62_skb/media

The first one doesn't necessarily feature all tweets ever made and it skips responses to other tweets, which might also contain images and such.

The second one seems to have all media-containing tweets and nothing else, i.e. no retweets. e9dd2ef adds support for these "Media Tweet" timelines. It now gets 313 files for https://twitter.com/nano_1227/media and a whole lot of 6 for https://twitter.com/62_skb/media, which is still better than 0.