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[GH-ISSUE #43] [Question] Why is an auth token necessary for downloads? #42
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Originally created by @Duck-3243 on GitHub (Dec 1, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/afkarxyz/Twitter-X-Media-Batch-Downloader/issues/43
Once fetched, media urls are accessible without being logged in. I'm wondering why the downloads can't be initiated without an auth token, since all tweet metadata (currently just the tweet date, I believe) is downloaded during the fetch.
Though I'm not sure Twitter even registers direct media downloads, as it's presumably not an API access, so having to enter an auth token is probably a non-issue as far as rate limitation is concerned.
@afkarxyz commented on GitHub (Dec 4, 2025):
Since Twitter has restricted their API, using gallery-dl also requires an auth token to ensure everything works properly.