This repository contains a proof-of-concept plugin package for yt-dlp to enhance Twitter Spaces download. It should work in principle but I have not tested every part of it, and there could be gliches that need fixing before putting into use.
See installing yt-dlp plugins for methods this plugin package can be installed.
A bundled version for Windows is provided in Release page to demostrate how to use this plugin along with yt-dlp binary
Apart from existing login and browser cookie support and TwitterSpacesIE extractor in main yt-dlp branch, this plugin package additionally add these functionalities inspired by Ryu1845's twspace-dl:
- Detect Twitter Space from up to 20 recent tweets in
USER_URLlikehttps://x.com/xxx - Use built-in filesystem cache of yt-dlp to automatically save dynamic urls and
info_dictfor later retrival of replays. - Allows manually assign dynamic url or master url for ended spaces that do not have replays
Install this plugin and use yt-dlp as usual. Refer to Readme of yt-dlp for filename formatting, use of archive file (to prevent repeated download), proxies, cookies, etc.
# To download spaces within an account
yt-dlp --cookies-from firefox https://x.com/xxx --write-meta --download-archive downloaded-ids.txt
# To cache space info and download later
yt-dlp --cookies curl-cookies.txt https://x.com/xxx --skip-download --write-meta
# To use dynamic url to download an ended space without replay enabled
yt-dlp --username [email protected] --password ABcd5678 https://x.com/i/spaces/xxxxx --TwitterSpaces:dynamic_url "https://xxxx/xxx.../audio-space/dynamic_playlist.m3u8?type=live"