[GH-ISSUE #386] Allow for user-provided twitter credentials when self-hosting (like insta) #9058

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GiteaMirror · 2026-04-24T15:07:55-05:00

GiteaMirror commented

2026-04-24 15:07:55 -05:00

Originally created by @Gremious on GitHub (Mar 8, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/386

I'm not very familiar with the project, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Twitter posts are fetched with a guest token, which is akin to how you can browse tweets when logged out, and because of that, you can't get nsfw-tagged tweets.

40555a4716/src/modules/processing/services/twitter.js (L96-L98)

There are however gifs out there to be downloaded which are tagged nsfw but are not, like some bot accounts: e.g. this tweet fails because cobalt sees it as "sensitive content" https://twitter.com/geocitiesgifbot/status/1766208542338355583

And also we should be able to just download sensitive content too anyway.

I would like to suggest allowing some twitter token/credentials to use instead of guest, when self hosted, much like you can provide instagram ones in a file.

I haven't had the pleasure of touching twitter api's myself, though I have heard that it's a pain, so I don't know if that's possible. Maybe with a user login or something?

Originally created by @Gremious on GitHub (Mar 8, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/386 I'm not very familiar with the project, so please correct me if I'm wrong. Twitter posts are fetched with a guest token, which is akin to how you can browse tweets when logged out, and because of that, you can't get nsfw-tagged tweets. https://github.com/wukko/cobalt/blob/40555a471693af9a8cfbf4be517bcfe38e023909/src/modules/processing/services/twitter.js#L96-L98 There are however gifs out there to be downloaded which are tagged nsfw but are not, like some bot accounts: e.g. this tweet fails because cobalt sees it as "sensitive content" https://twitter.com/geocitiesgifbot/status/1766208542338355583 And also we should be able to just download sensitive content too anyway. I would like to suggest allowing some twitter token/credentials to use instead of guest, when self hosted, much like you can provide instagram ones in a file. I haven't had the pleasure of touching twitter api's myself, though I have heard that it's a pain, so I don't know if that's possible. Maybe with a user login or something?

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Reference: github-starred/cobalt#9058