tweet2media-rs

Rust library for getting media URLs from tweets

Why

I needed a Rust library for getting media URLs from tweet URLs, but couldn't find a suitable one. gallery-dl has a good extractor logic and since Twitter doesn't have much of a developer API anymore I decided to use theirs but rewrite it in Rust.

Caveats

This library is not as fancy as gallery-dl and only implements what it says on the tin.

This library will break as soon as Twitter changes their API. This library will break on the full moon. No update guarantees.

This library has been tested up to 2026-10-16 and is current with gallery-dl's changes to their Twitter extractor up to 2026-10-13 (commit 30d2e545da).

License

Note: most of this library is based on the gallery-dl extractor for Twitter. As the original gallery-dl library is GPL-v2, this library is also licensed under the same terms. See the LICENSE file for more information.