yt-dlp-threads

A yt-dlp extractor plugin for Threads (threads.com / threads.net).

yt-dlp has no built-in Threads extractor — support has been requested for years without a merged implementation (#7523, #10133, #12021) — and Threads serves anonymous clients a JavaScript login wall with no media in the HTML.

How it works

Meta server-renders the full post — including the CDN media URLs — for link-preview crawlers. This plugin fetches the post page with a Googlebot User-Agent to bypass the login wall, then extracts the progressive (muxed) mp4 URL(s) from the embedded JSON. Handles canonical @user/post/<id> links, /share/<code>/ short links, and multi-video (carousel) posts.

Caveat: this bypass is inherently fragile. If Meta stops serving crawlers the full payload or changes the embedded JSON keys, extraction will break. There is no cookie/auth support — only publicly viewable posts work.

Install

Requires yt-dlp with plugin support (2023.01.02+).

As a pip package (installs into the same environment as yt-dlp):

pip install git+https://github.com/tribixbite/yt-dlp-threads

As a manual plugin (no install): drop the yt_dlp_plugins folder into a yt-dlp plugin directory, e.g.

mkdir -p ~/.config/yt-dlp/plugins/yt-dlp-threads
cp -r yt_dlp_plugins ~/.config/yt-dlp/plugins/yt-dlp-threads/

Usage

yt-dlp "https://www.threads.com/@someone/post/ABC123"
yt-dlp -F "https://www.threads.com/share/xxxxxxxx/"   # list formats (hd/sd)

Verify it loaded: yt-dlp --verbose <url> prints [debug] Extractor Plugins: ThreadsIE.

Notes

  • A Threads page embeds many posts (thread items, replies, recommendations). The extractor selects the one whose shortcode matches your URL; if that post isn't in the page data (deleted, private, login-gated) it raises an error rather than returning some other post's video.
  • duration is decoded from the CDN URL's efg parameter — Threads posts have no video_duration field.
  • Image-only and text-only posts are not supported (video only).

Development

python -m unittest discover -s tests -v   # offline tests, no network
ruff check .

License

Unlicense (public domain).

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