How to download videos from Twitter (X) on any device

X lets you watch a video as often as you like but gives you no button to keep it. With a post's link and a browser, you can save the video — or the GIF, or the photos — as an ordinary file in under a minute, on any phone or computer. This guide covers each device, the choices you will see along the way, and what to do if a post refuses to load.

Step by step

1. Copy the post's link. Open the share menu under the post on X and choose Copy link. In a desktop browser, the address of the open post works as well.
2. Open Twitter Downloader. Go to twitdownloader.dev in any browser. There is nothing to install, and signing in to X is not required.
3. Paste the link and press Download. Enter it in the link field near the top of the page. The post is looked up in a second or two, and every video, GIF and photo in it is listed.
4. Pick a quality. The sharpest version is first and highlighted. Each option shows its resolution and an estimated size.
5. Find the file. It saves to your Downloads folder, or to the Files app on iPhone and iPad.

Getting the right link

The downloader needs a link to one post. It looks like https://x.com/username/status/1234567890123456789 — the long number is the post's id. Links from twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com work exactly the same, and so does a link copied with extra bits on the end, such as ?s=20 or /video/1.

• In the X app, tap the share icon under the post (the arrow, at the end of the row with replies and likes) and choose Copy link.
• In a browser, open the post itself by clicking its timestamp, then copy the address bar.
• In a thread, open the reply that actually contains the video. The link of the first post only covers that post's own media.

A faster route on a computer: with the post open, change x.com in the address bar to twitdownloader.dev and press Enter. The downloader opens with the post already looked up.

On iPhone and iPad

Use Safari. After you tap a quality, Safari asks whether you want to download the file; tap Download. A small arrow appears in the address bar while it saves. The finished video is in the Files app, under Downloads.

Files is not the camera roll, so the video will not show up in Photos on its own. To move it there, open it in Files, tap the share icon and choose Save Video. The iPhone camera-roll guide covers this in more detail, including where to look if the download seems to vanish.

On Android

Chrome, Samsung Internet and Firefox all work. Tap a quality and the download starts at once; a notification shows its progress. The file is saved to the Downloads folder, and Google Photos or the Gallery app picks it up shortly after, usually in a Downloads album. If it does not appear, open the Files app (or My Files on Samsung phones) and look in Downloads.

On Windows, Mac and Chromebook

Any current browser works. Click a quality and the file goes to the browser's download folder — Downloads, unless you have changed it. Chrome and Edge show it in the downloads bubble at the top right; Safari in the downloads arrow next to the address bar.

Choosing a quality

X stores several copies of every video at different resolutions, and all of them are listed. The first one is the sharpest X has, usually the resolution the video was uploaded at. Lower ones are smaller and quicker to send. Each option shows an estimated file size worked out from its bitrate and length.

The resolution can never be higher than the upload. If a video only goes up to 720p, that is because it was posted at 720p.

GIFs, photos and posts with several videos

• GIFs download as MP4, because that is how X stores them. The GIF downloader page explains why, and how to convert one to a .gif if you need to.
• Photos come at the largest size X keeps, labelled Original, with smaller copies where they exist. The Twitter image downloader page covers sizes and formats.
• Posts with several attachments — up to 4 — list each one separately, numbered in the order they appear on X.
• Quote posts include the media of the post being quoted, marked as such.

Broadcast replays

A live broadcast that has ended, with its replay kept, can be saved as an MP4 too. Paste the broadcast link (x.com/i/broadcasts/…) or the link of a post that shares it. Each quality gets a Download button, as with a video post. X streams replays in short pieces rather than as one file, so your browser fetches the pieces and joins them into one MP4, without re-encoding.

• Whole replay or part of it. A quality's Download button saves the whole broadcast. Trim opens a card with a start and end time and a slider, and only the pieces in that range are fetched. The clip may begin a few seconds early, at the nearest key frame.
• Keep the tab open until it says Saved. The progress bar shows how much has arrived, and Cancel stops it without leaving a half-finished file behind.
• Long replays are large. An hour at 720p is around 1.2 GB. On a computer, Chrome and Edge stream it into the file you pick; elsewhere you need that much space free on the device.

If a post refuses to load

• "Protected account": only approved followers can see the post, so it cannot be downloaded.
• "Hidden from signed-out visitors": X hides some posts, usually ones marked as sensitive, from people who are not signed in. The downloader cannot see them.
• "Post not found": the post was deleted, the account was suspended, or the link was cut short. Copy it again with the share icon.
• "Nothing to download": the post has no media of its own. A YouTube link shows a preview on X but the video lives on YouTube. Spaces are not supported, and a broadcast can only be saved once it has ended.
• A download that will not start: download links are made fresh for each lookup. If the page has been open for hours, paste the post again for new ones.

Every message has a matching answer in the troubleshooting section of the FAQ.

Using what you download

Saving a video doesn't transfer its copyright. Keeping a clip to rewatch is a common personal use; re-uploading someone else's video, or using it to promote something, can infringe their rights and break X's rules. When you want to share a video, sharing the original post credits the person who made it.