Twitter to X Rename Break

[Terryble2]

Due to Twitter enforcing the X rename gallery-dll no longer works to download files from Twitter. Both the cookie fetch and the username & password methods now fail.

[thatfuckingbird]

Just tried a download with the latest gallery-dl release and it works for me (but I already had cookies set up, so I don't know if re-authenticating would also work).

[Terryble2]

Just tried a download with the latest gallery-dl release and it works for me (but I already had cookies set up, so I don't know if re-authenticating would also work).

My issues started after re-authenticating so I believe that's where the issue lies. My belief is that the new cookie does not refer to itself as being for Twitter but rather for X and gallery-dl is searching for a cookie for Twitter. It may be possible to workaround this by extracting the cookie for X and renaming it to Twitter and saving that to a file for gallery-dl but to be honest I don't know how to do such a thing.

[a84r7a3rga76fg]

I've got the same issue. Guest mode only works.

[xxpc9]

I also hope that there is an added option for future updates from x.com will go to the Twitter folder already made, to have continuity

[AAndyProgram]

The same here. Twitter forced me to go to x.com after relogging and now nothing is downloading

[mikf]

Should be fixed in 6276f5c.

Pre-built executables with this commit can be found at https://github.com/gdl-org/builds/releases, by the way.

[AAndyProgram]

@mikf yes, it's fixed. Thank you!

[Terryble2]

@mikf Fixed, many thanks! Might be worth noting that some people could theoretically have old Twitter cookies that will now stop working, those people will just need to re-authenticate on X.com.

[oncoremarco]

I'm afraid it seems that no matter what I do I'm still getting an error with twitter/x posts saying that the URL is unsupported. For example, using the url "https://x.com/AP" results in "[gallery-dl][error] Unsupported URL 'https://x.com/AP'"

My config settings are as follows:
"twitter": { "users": "https://x.com/{legacy[screen_name]}", "cookies": "x.com_cookies.txt", "text-tweets":true, "quoted":true, "retweets":true, "logout":true, "replies":true, "filename": "{author[name]}_{tweet_id}_{num}.{extension}", "directory":{ "quote_id != 0": ["twitter", "{user[name]}", "quote-retweets", "{quote_by}"], "retweet_id != 0": ["twitter", "{user[name]}", "retweets" ], "" : ["twitter", "{user[name]}" ] }, "postprocessors":[ {"name": "metadata", "event": "post", "filename": "twitter_{author[name]}_{tweet_id}_main.json"} ] },

[mikf]

@oncoremarco You're using an outdated version then. Support for x.com URLs was added in v1.26.0 (2b88ad1).

[oncoremarco]

@oncoremarco You're using an outdated version then. Support for x.com URLs was added in v1.26.0 (2b88ad1).

You're right, that issue must have been something on my end. On my PC, for some reason, "gallery-dl" runs version 1.25 while "py -m gallery_dl" runs the updated version.

However, now that I'm using the correct package, I'm still unable to download from the site. Certain pages result in errors, and it seems to be related to those accounts that are "shadowbanned" or hidden from search. For instance, "https://x.com/AP" works fine, but an NSFW account such as "https://x.com/ThiccWithAQ" does not. It also seems to not take into account cookies saved from the new x.com URL linked in the config file. I've exported my cookies to a .txt file as normal and added them under the twitter header, and am still prompted to log in after a couple of files download. Just to be sure, I've duplicated my old "twitter" settings and renamed it "x", but still get the same results.

What is the correct method for logging into the new X site through gallery-dl, or for registering your login cookies with the program?