There's no video in this tweet.

Package:

youtube-dl

99648

Exception Class:

ExtractorError

Raise code

'thumbnails': thumbnails,
                        'duration': int_or_none(get_binding_value(
                            'content_duration_seconds')),
                    })
            else:
                expanded_url = try_get(status, lambda x: x['entities']['urls'][0]['expanded_url'])
                if not expanded_url:
                    raise ExtractorError("There's no video in this tweet.")
                info.update({
                    '_type': 'url',
                    'url': expanded_url,
                })
        return info

Links to the raise (1)

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/dfbbe2902fc67f0f93ee47a8077c148055c67a9b/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py#L572

Ways to fix

This happens in youtube_dl libraries when given the wrong tweet link.

How to reproduce the error:

pip install youtube_dl

import youtube_dl
youtube_dl.YoutubeDL().extract_info("https://twitter.com/seesthepoint/status/1431724158220738563")

The error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ExtractorError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py in wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs)
    814             try:
--> 815                 return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
    816             except GeoRestrictedError as e:

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py in __extract_info(self, url, ie, download, extra_info, process)
    835     def __extract_info(self, url, ie, download, extra_info, process):
--> 836         ie_result = ie.extract(url)
    837         if ie_result is None:  # Finished already (backwards compatibility; listformats and friends should be moved here)

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py in extract(self, url)
    533                     self.initialize()
--> 534                     ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
    535                     if self._x_forwarded_for_ip:

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py in _real_extract(self, url)
    571                 if not expanded_url:
--> 572                     raise ExtractorError("There's no video in this tweet.")
    573                 info.update({

ExtractorError: There's no video in this tweet.; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

DownloadError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-45-491a289bffea> in <module>()
      1 import youtube_dl
----> 2 youtube_dl.YoutubeDL().extract_info("https://twitter.com/seesthepoint/status/1431724158220738563")

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py in extract_info(self, url, download, ie_key, extra_info, process, force_generic_extractor)
    806                                     'and will probably not work.')
    807 
--> 808             return self.__extract_info(url, ie, download, extra_info, process)
    809         else:
    810             self.report_error('no suitable InfoExtractor for URL %s' % url)

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py in wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs)
    822                 self.report_error(msg)
    823             except ExtractorError as e:  # An error we somewhat expected
--> 824                 self.report_error(compat_str(e), e.format_traceback())
    825             except MaxDownloadsReached:
    826                 raise

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py in report_error(self, message, tb)
    626             _msg_header = 'ERROR:'
    627         error_message = '%s %s' % (_msg_header, message)
--> 628         self.trouble(error_message, tb)
    629 
    630     def report_file_already_downloaded(self, file_name):

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py in trouble(self, message, tb)
    596             else:
    597                 exc_info = sys.exc_info()
--> 598             raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
    599         self._download_retcode = 1
    600 

DownloadError: ERROR: There's no video in this tweet.; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

How to fix it:

Make sure the given link is a correct url of a tweet that has a video.

import youtube_dl
youtube_dl.YoutubeDL().extract_info("https://twitter.com/TheWorldOfFunny/status/1431713499932250121")

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