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.
durationis decoded from the CDN URL'sefgparameter — Threads posts have novideo_durationfield.- 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).
1 maintainer
Metadata
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