How do I get the animated gif in a tweet

7opt7 · 2017-07-17T13:48:58.449Z

tweet.entities.media[0].media_url is for image png and jpg
tweet.extended_entities.media[0].video_info.variants[0].url is for the video mp4

But I want to know how I can get the animated gif not video

andypiper · 2017-07-17T14:02:38.754Z

Animated GIFs are transcoded to MP4 on upload, so there’s no way to retrieve the original GIF, just the MP4 version that Twitter uses to play the animation.

7opt7 · 2017-07-17T14:05:34.370Z

Ah, I hope that changes in the future. Thanks for the help.

andypiper · 2017-07-17T14:58:55.253Z

There are no plans to change our media pipeline. You can keep an eye on the API roadmap here.