I wanted to save X/Twitter videos on my phone, but there was a catch: X has no download button, and the download sites that fill that gap are ad-stuffed, break whenever X rotates its API auth, and you hand every tweet URL to a stranger. So I built my own: a self-hosted web app where you paste a tweet link and get a preview, a quality picker, and a Download button that saves the MP4 to your phone.
The whole thing is 463 lines of Node with zero npm dependencies, plus 224 lines of vanilla JS for the UI. It is open source (MIT):
X/Twitter Downloader (xdl)
Paste any x.com / twitter.com tweet link → preview → download. A small, self-hosted web app for saving videos (and GIFs/photos) from X. Mobile-first, works great on phones.
You host it yourself — there's no hosted instance. It runs on your own server (or just your laptop), so it's free, private, and no third-party download site is involved.
