Twitter Media Downloader
Download images/videos of user's media-timeline on Twitter.
What is Twitter Media Downloader?
'Twitter Media Downloader' is a Firefox add-on that facilitates downloading of images and videos from a user's or search timeline on Twitter. The downloaded media is conveniently stored in a ZIP file. Ideal for saving media from favorite illustrators and photographers found on Twitter.
Add-on stats
This add-on was removed from Firefox Browser Add-ons on
2023-09-15
By: 風柳
Users: 25,361
Rating: 4.18
(301)
Creation date: 2017-11-17
Weekly download count: 689
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- storage
- *://*.twitter.com/*
- *://pbs.twimg.com/*
- *://video.twimg.com/*
- *://*.cdn.vine.co/*
Size: 267.64K
Email: fu*****@gmail.com
URLs: Website
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Add-on summary
If you find favorite illustrators and photographers on Twitter, you will want to save their all images.
With this extension, in the Twitter official Web site, images/videos of a user's media timeline (https://twitter.com/<screen_name>/media) or search timeline, to be able to download at once(*).
(*) Images/videos collectively will be stored in a ZIP file .
User reviews
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Pros
- Convenient extension for saving pictures from artists' profiles
- Useful file naming feature for easy traceability of original tweets
- Extensive tool for downloading single tweets and mass downloading
- Works well with tweetdeck
- Saves time and effort
- Great features offered by the add-on
- Works fine after updates
Cons
- Stopped working properly since around two months ago
- Cannot download pictures that are over a year old
- Hasn't been updated in a year
- Noticeably worse with current API changes
- Doesn't download all tweets
- Cannot download tweets with no media
- Cannot download retweets
- Media mass download button not available on lists
- Issues with downloading individual videos
- Doesn't work anymore
- Only downloads images and not videos
- Error messages and failure to retrieve tweet information
- No longer maintained
- Broken after recent updates
- Failed to get tweet information
- Abruptly stopped working
- Recent issues with functionality
Most mentioned
- Stopped working properly
- API changes
- Download pictures
- Cannot download videos
- Not maintained
- Failed to get tweet information
- Broke after recent updates
Recent reviews
Can you please update your extension, it no longer works at all since Twitter's changes (X).
It always displays:<< (*) Timeline error: [API] 34: Sorry, that page does not exist.>>
by Firefox user 12922358, 2023-09-14
by Erebar, 2023-09-14
The extension was great but it's broken again. When trying to Start a "pass" it reads:
(*) Timeline error: [API] 34: Sorry, that page does not exist.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Complete(timeline-error)] - ( Tweet: 0 / Media: 0 )
by Ecchi-C, 2023-09-13
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Twitter Media Downloader is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.
Risk likelihood
Twitter Media Downloader may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.
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