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

🙏 Scream for help to Ukraine

Today, 14th August 2022, Russia continues bombing and firing Ukraine. Don't trust Russia, they are bombing us and brazenly lying in same time they are not doing this 😠, civilians and children are dying too! We are screaming and asking exactly you to help us, we want to survive, our families, children, older ones.
Please spread the information, and ask your governemnt to stop Russia by any means. We promise to work extrahard after survival to make the world safer place for all.

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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