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  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    unfortunately the poast one lets you open vid in new tab and save the video to your hard drive, whereas xcancel does not. not saying that's an endorsement, but it is pretty useful if you don't think something is going to stay up on twitter for political reasons.

    • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      oh, that's interesting, I didn't know that. I've just been using some twitter downloader website

      seems like the difference is because poast directly links to twitters CDN, while the original nitter avoids any direct connections to twitter. Original nitter had a PR that made it work like poast does now, but nitter died before it could be merged.

      • krolden@lemmy.ml
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        edit-2
        2 months ago

        yt-dlp can download videos from twitter or any nitter instance or really any social media you can publicly view.

        • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          It can get it from Twitter, but with:

          nitter.poast.org

          yt-dlp https://nitter.poast.org/jordanuhl/status/1811558160211268019

          [Nitter] Extracting URL: https://nitter.poast.org/jordanuhl/status/1811558160211268019
          [Nitter] 1811558160211268019: Downloading webpage
          ERROR: [Nitter] 1811558160211268019: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: Forbidden>)

          xcancel

          yt-dlp https://xcancel.com/jordanuhl/status/1811558160211268019

          [generic] Extracting URL: https://xcancel.com/jordanuhl/status/1811558160211268019
          [generic] 1811558160211268019: Downloading webpage
          ERROR: [generic] Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable (caused by <HTTPError 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable>)