Twitter: Here's how to download a video to your phone or computer

When scrolling through Twitter, it's not uncommon, to come across posts or replies sharing videos of varying lengths, comical, sad, happy and unfortunately also negative. But if you had the idea of saving one or more videos in your gallery, you'd face trouble. Indeed, Twitter simply does not allow you to download videos directly from the social network, whereas it is possible to do so with photos or other images. However, third-party tools can do the job if the social network does not allow it. Here's how it works.

Downloading Twitter videos to your computer

If you're one of the people who use Twitter on your computer, we suggest you go to sites like SaveTweetVid, DownloadTwitterVideo or even SaveFrom.net to download and save videos from Twitter that you want to keep track of. All three sites are very similar and download the video(s) directly from their URL.

Here's how to get your video:

1. Click on the tweet in which the video was posted
2. Get the URL of the tweet by copying the web address that is displayed
3. Go to one of the three sites listed above
4. On the site, paste the address of the tweet in the space provided
5. Click on download if the download does not start automatically

That's it, you've got a video, all you have to do is repeat this process every time you want to get a video from Twitter

Downloading Twitter videos from an Android smartphone

For Android smartphones, the process is very simple as you just have to follow the same procedure as for computers. This is mainly because the Android environment gives users more freedomto add applications and media from 'unofficial' sources, meaning here that they are not from the application shops available on the devices.

1. Get the URL of the tweet
2. From one of three sites: SaveTweetVid, DownloadTwitterVideo or SaveFrom.net, paste the address of the tweet in the space provided
3. Download your video and it will go directly into your media

Downloading Twitter videos from an iPhone

As you can see, while Android gives its users a great deal of freedom, Apple prefers to restrict them on the pretext of a more secure environment. Forget any idea of downloading media from the internet directly, unless you want to use the many jailbreak techniques available for iPhones.

We will not detail these techniques which consist in bypassing, without the agreement of Apple, the restrictions of the manufacturer. Especially since they are not all without risk. Indeed, some of them can blow up the device's warranty.

So is it impossible to download Twitter videos from an iPhone? Not at all. Despite all the restrictions, Apple still leaves a few doors open that are monitored very closely. Here's how to download Twitter videos from your iPhone or iPad:

First, make sure you have the Shortcuts app installed on your device, otherwise, download it, it's free

1. For the procedure to work, don't forget to accept the 'Allow untrusted shortcuts'\ option
2. Once the application is installed, follow this link to the Twitter Video Downloader. This is an already created shortcut to download videos from Twitter
3. Go to Twitter
4. Click on a tweet with a video or on the video in the tweet directly
5. Tap and hold on the video, the sharing options will open
6. From the sharing options, choose TDVL v3.1
7. Choose the quality in which you want to download your media
8. The video is then downloaded to your photo gallery

This article was translated from GentsideFR.

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