Conflict It is an instant messaging software born in the mid-2010s. Almost a decade after its creation, the platform has become very popular on the Internet.
Over the years, Discord’s usage has diversified. For example, in May 2021, Sony and Discord entered into a partnership to allow messaging to come to PS5s. After more than a year, Discord voice chat has arrived on Xbox consoles.
Considered the “gamers’ messaging service,” Discord is, first and foremost, a sharing place where members can share Internet connections, YouTube videos, and even tweets based on current news. Moreover, Discord platform allows downloading Twitter videos Thanks to a trick consisting of several steps.
How to download Twitter video from Discord?
Take the example of Tesla’s Twitter video where it demonstrates FSD’s autonomous driving capabilities. In Discord, simply copy the URL and paste it into a chat channel or private message.
As you noticed, the address is not twitter.com, vxtwitter.com. Vxtwitter was built on the GitHub platform to make embedding Twitter videos in Discord work better. Thanks to this feature, members of the social network will avoid having to go to X (Twitter) to watch videos, thus Use Discord’s built-in video player.
Going back to the video on Tesla’s Twitter account, downloading the media is done in a few steps:
- Use Chrome browser
- Go to Discord Web, the online version of the software
- Copy and paste this address
- After viewing the media, launch the Chrome authoring tool by clicking on the browser’s vertical dots (located at the top right) and then “More tools.”
- Select “Inspect item” (see red circle in the screenshot above)
- Hover over the video area
- In the development tool, right-click on the address that starts and ends with .mp4.
- Select “Open in new tab”
At the end of these steps, a new Chrome browser tab opens and the video is downloaded automatically. Once downloaded, you can of course rename the MP4 file as you wish and save it in a folder stored on your desktop PC or laptop.
If you have seen another video, it will also be downloaded in the same way.
