How to get a direct link to a twitter video?

How do I get a direct link to a video embedded in a tweet?

For example, the video embedded in this tweet can be watched directly here.

Note: I got the link from the Feedbro extension which can show an RSS-link feed of a twitter account. This is not a general solution, since it would only show the most recent 20 tweets and I need something that will work for an arbitrary twwet. It's just a demonstration that this is possible.

Note 2: This is not about downloading the video (there are multiple tools to do that), just retrieving a link to it.

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I dont know the Tecnical awnser but there is a service that you can tag @DownloaderBot under the Video and it sends you a link and on the link you can click view and there is the direct media link.

Edit: Now i did a bit of research. If you dont want to use an external service you can use the Chrome Debugger.

1.Go to the Tweet with the Video for example this again.

2.Rightclick anywhere on the page and hit Inspect

3.Go to the Network Tab and hit F5 to reload the Network traffic from this site.

4.On the debugger search function search for ".mp4?tag"

5.There should be only one result. Expand it and click it.

6.Copy the Code from the Response Tab.

7.In this code there is the direct link to the media in this case here

8.You can use to make the code you copied easier to read.

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youtube-dl is exactly what you need. Don't be fooled by its name, it works with a lot more than just youtube.

If you have youtube-dl installed, you can do it like so:

youtube-dl --get-url <link to media page>

It should print the video's URL in your terminal, and that's it!

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