[following/1.25.0] "No results"

[Shohreh]

Hello,

Since Twitter seems to sometimes remove accounts people are following, I looked into downloading my list, which now stands around 170.

For some reason, gallery-dl gets nothing:

gallery-dl -g https://twitter.com/me/following
[twitter][info] Requesting guest token
[twitter][info] No results for https://twitter.com/me/following

What could I try?

Thank you.

[mikf]

Login or provide cookies.

/following URLs seem to not return any results with just a guest token.

edit: You can change the output URL format with the users option.

[Shohreh]

Thanks. One better, but still NOK:

Saved login + password in %USERPROFILE%\gallery-dl.conf
gallery-dl -g https://twitter.com/me/following
[twitter][info] Logging in as me
[twitter][info] No results for https://twitter.com/me/following

[rautamiekka]

Add the --verbose flag.

[Shohreh]

[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.8.10 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.25.1 - urllib3 1.26.4
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['%USERPROFILE%\\gallery-dl.conf']
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting UrlJob for 'https://twitter.com/me/following'
[twitter][debug] Using TwitterFollowingExtractor for 'https://twitter.com/me/following'
[twitter][info] Requesting guest token
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.twitter.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.twitter.com:443 "POST /1.1/guest/activate.json HTTP/1.1" 200 63
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.twitter.com:443 "GET /graphql/7mjxD3-C6BxitPMVQ6w0-Q/UserByScreenName?variables=%7B%22
screen_name%22%3A%22me%22%2C%22withSafetyModeUserFields%22%3Atrue%2C%22withSuperFollowsUserFields%22%3Atrue%7D HTTP/1.1
" 200 695
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.twitter.com:443 "GET /graphql/mIwX8GogcobVlRwlgpHNYA/Following?variables=%7B%22userId%
22%3A%2233500208%22%2C%22count%22%3A100%2C%22includePromotedContent%22%3Afalse%2C%22withSuperFollowsUserFields%22%3Atrue%2C%22with
BirdwatchPivots%22%3Afalse%2C%22withDownvotePerspective%22%3Afalse%2C%22withReactionsMetadata%22%3Afalse%2C%22withReactionsPerspec
tive%22%3Afalse%2C%22withSuperFollowsTweetFields%22%3Atrue%2C%22withClientEventToken%22%3Afalse%2C%22withBirdwatchNotes%22%3Afalse
%2C%22withVoice%22%3Atrue%2C%22withV2Timeline%22%3Afalse%2C%22__fs_interactive_text%22%3Afalse%2C%22__fs_dont_mention_me_view_api_
enabled%22%3Afalse%7D HTTP/1.1" 200 265
[twitter][info] No results for https://twitter.com/me/following```

[mikf]

Works for me. Try cookies if username & password don't work.

$ gallery-dl -g -u me twitter.com/potus/following
https://twitter.com/i/user/1323730225067339784
https://twitter.com/i/user/803694179079458816
https://twitter.com/i/user/1349154719386775552
https://twitter.com/i/user/1349175483989188608
https://twitter.com/i/user/1349170292564905988
https://twitter.com/i/user/1351293685493878786
https://twitter.com/i/user/42562446
https://twitter.com/i/user/1352064843432472578
https://twitter.com/i/user/1351302423273472012
https://twitter.com/i/user/1351341047394295808
https://twitter.com/i/user/1351284403801108481
https://twitter.com/i/user/1351311448195166208
https://twitter.com/i/user/1349389044426403847

[a84r7a3rga76fg]

@mikf Can gallery-dl convert username to user IDs and say which ones failed? It's cumbersome to be doing it one by one

[mikf]

@a84r7a3rga76fg Not with its command-line interface. You can use its TwitterAPI code in your own script similar to #3623 (comment) and use user_by_screen_name and user_by_rest_id to convert between name and ID.

[Shohreh]

After opening the web page on Twitter with Chrome to make sure the cookies were there and fresh, I tried the following config file + command, still not working:

{
    "extractor": {
        "twitter": {
			"cookies": ["chromium"]
        }
    }
}

c:\>gallery-dl -c .\gallery-dl.cookies.conf -g -u ME --verbose https://twitter.com/ME/following
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.25.0
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.8.10 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.25.1 - urllib3 1.26.4
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['.\\gallery-dl.cookies.conf']
[gallery-dl][debug] Starting UrlJob for 'https://twitter.com/ME/following'
[cookies][debug] Extracting cookies from C:\Users\ME\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies
[cookies][debug] Found local state file at 'C:\Users\ME\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data\Local State'
[cookies][info] Extracted 46 cookies from chromium
[cookies][debug] cookie version breakdown: {'v10': 46, 'other': 0, 'unencrypted': 0}
[twitter][debug] Using TwitterFollowingExtractor for 'https://twitter.com/ME/following'
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.twitter.com:443
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.twitter.com:443 "GET /graphql/7mjxD3-C6BxitPMVQ6w0-Q/UserByScreenName?variables=%7B%22
screen_name%22%3A%22ME%22%2C%22withSafetyModeUserFields%22%3Atrue%2C%22withSuperFollowsUserFields%22%3Atrue%7D HTTP/1.1
" 200 573
[urllib3.connectionpool][debug] https://api.twitter.com:443 "GET /graphql/mIwX8GogcobVlRwlgpHNYA/Following?variables=%7B%22userId%
22%3A%2233500208%22%2C%22count%22%3A100%2C%22includePromotedContent%22%3Afalse%2C%22withSuperFollowsUserFields%22%3Atrue%2C%22with
BirdwatchPivots%22%3Afalse%2C%22withDownvotePerspective%22%3Afalse%2C%22withReactionsMetadata%22%3Afalse%2C%22withReactionsPerspec
tive%22%3Afalse%2C%22withSuperFollowsTweetFields%22%3Atrue%2C%22withClientEventToken%22%3Afalse%2C%22withBirdwatchNotes%22%3Afalse
%2C%22withVoice%22%3Atrue%2C%22withV2Timeline%22%3Afalse%2C%22__fs_interactive_text%22%3Afalse%2C%22__fs_dont_mention_me_view_api_
enabled%22%3Afalse%7D HTTP/1.1" 200 265
[twitter][info] No results for https://twitter.com/ME/following```

[ClosedPort22]

Twitter also put the media timeline behind soft login gate. The next step would be to disable guest access to the endpoint, I guess.

[Shohreh]

Thanks. Hopefully, it has no unintented consequences.

If all else fails, an AutoIT script.

Didn't expect something apparently so obvious to be so involved. Thanks Twitter :-/