This handy Twitter video downloader bot is now seeing 7,500 requests a day

Not every one of the bots on Twitter are spammers or majority rules system programmers. You may review seeing solicitations to the Thread Reader application bot to "unroll" a long string into coherent duplicate, for instance, and in later days you may have spotted Twitter clients labeling a more current bot, @this_vid, on tweets with a video document appended. The convenient bot (otherwise known as DownloadThisVideo) offers an approach to download the two recordings and GIFs from Twitter's webpage for less demanding disconnected survey. 

The thought for @this_vid originates from Shalvah Adebayo, a backend designer brought up in Nigeria, and at present living in Lagos. Shalvah says he got into advancement in 2013, amid his last year of auxiliary school (secondary school). 

"There was a child in a lower class that individuals discussed in wonderment — 'he knows programming!,'" clarifies Shalvah. "I had no clue what it was at that point," he proceeds. "I watched a direction line test application he'd made, and I was awed. I'd won a PC in a challenge a couple of months back, so the following day, I strolled into the main PC shop I knew and approached them for 'Programming recordings.' They gave me something on C++. I viewed those at home that day and returned the following day to purchase the genuine programming (the IDE). That was the manner by which I began composing C++," he says. 

From that point forward, Shalvah moved from C++ to Android advancement, at that point web improvement. He went to college and afterward quit, and started working in the tech business. Today, Shalvah works all day as a remote programming engineer for a building consultancy and item configuration organization in South Africa called Deimos Cloud. 

He fabricates applications in his extra time as side activities, and has already publicly released different bots like @RemindMe_OfThis, which gives you a chance to set updates by tweets, and TwitterThrowback, which resembles Twitter's adaptation of Facebook's "On This Day" highlight. 

Be that as it may, the Twitter video downloader bot has turned out to be one of his progressively well known manifestations, and is presently observing around 7,500 client demands for every day, and upwards of 9,500 at pinnacle times. 

Shalvah clarifies he got the thought since it was an individual agony point. Web get to where he lives can be spotty, and the Twitter application's video experience was not perfect. He said he liked to download the recordings to watch them disconnected, however couldn't locate any simple method to do as such. 

"I was aware of a few locales and applications that did that, yet I don't care for introducing applications, and I didn't care for the rubbing engaged with utilizing a site," the engineer says. "Besides, I needed an offbeat procedure, where you could simply say 'hello, I need to download this' and keep perusing Twitter and return later to get your download." 

Additionally, Shalvah says he saw a great deal of other Twitter clients asking how they can get the video posted in almost every mainstream string where somebody had tweeted a video. 

The bot, @this_vid, has been fully operational since May 2018. In the wake of sending it out first to his own supporters, Shalvah then started to go-to people to it at whatever point he saw them asking on a string how to get a specific video that was shared. This prompted its expanding notoriety around Twitter. 

"I think it truly tackled an issue for many individuals, and that was what made it so well known. So there were a considerable amount of individuals, the two companions and outsiders, that tweeted about it to their supporters, and it only sort of developed naturally," he says. 

There are a few recordings that @this_vid can't download, in light of the fact that the blurb — frequently a games association (for example The NFL ) — has confined it from downloads. Be that as it may, by and large, you should simply make reference to @this_vid in an answer to the first tweet, and you'll get a connection with the video download in no time flat. 

The bot works by questioning the Twitter API for the tweet information, and after that recovers the media URL alongside a couple of different fallbacks. 

Since Twitter is rate-constrained, permitting the bot just 300 tweets like clockwork, Shalvah made the download interface for every client simple to recollect at: download-this.video/Twitter_username. That way you can get to your downloads notwithstanding when the bot can't answer. 

The bot itself is allowed to utilize, open source and bolstered through Patreon gifts. 

Some worry individuals could download recordings they don't reserve the options to through a bot like this, or distribute them somewhere else and assume praise. Shalvah says he doesn't trust the bot is infringing upon Twitter's copyright strategy, engineer terms or standards. 

Up until this point, the vast majority appear to utilize the bot for individual use. Be that as it may, Twitter hasn't generally been caring to outsider engineers, so it stays to be perceived to what extent @this_vid will last. 

Shalvah says he plans to keep @this_vid free and will keep on creating it.