What BirdGrab is
BirdGrab is a free website for saving the videos, GIFs and photos of public X (Twitter) posts to your own device. You paste the link of a post, and BirdGrab lists every video, GIF and photo in it: videos as MP4 files in each quality X offers, GIFs as MP4 files or converted .gif files, photos in their original size, and the sound of a video as an MP3 file. It runs in any modern web browser on phones, tablets and computers; there is nothing to install and no account to create.
What you can save
- Videos – MP4 files with sound, in every resolution X provides for that video (for example 1080p, 720p and 360p).
- GIFs – X stores GIFs as short silent videos; you can save that MP4 file, or a real
.gifconverted on our side, which plays everywhere and can be shared again. - Photos – every image of a post in the original size it was uploaded in, one by one or all at once.
- MP3 audio – the sound of a video as an MP3 file.
- Thumbnails – the preview image of a video or GIF.
Links from x.com and twitter.com (x.com/user/status/…), mobile links, t.co short links and fxtwitter or vxtwitter links all work. Only posts that are publicly visible on X can be saved: posts of protected accounts, deleted posts and posts X shows only to logged-in users cannot.
How it works
- You copy the link of a post (in the X app: Share → Copy link) and paste it on BirdGrab.
- Our server looks the post up in X's public embed data. If that does not answer, it asks the open-source tool yt-dlp and then the third-party service fxtwitter.com, as explained in the Privacy Policy.
- You see every video, GIF and photo of that post with the formats that are available and pick one.
- Your browser downloads videos and GIFs straight from X's servers when it can; otherwise, and for photos, the file is streamed from X through ours. MP3 audio and the real GIF are converted on the fly.
What BirdGrab does not do
- It does not store videos, sounds or pictures: nothing you download is written to our disks.
- It has no user accounts, sets no cookies by default and runs no advertising trackers. By default, no third-party analytics run; the site only counts visits, lookups and downloads on its own server without IP addresses, cookies or the links you paste, and optionally supports privacy-gated Google Analytics 4 only if you give consent (see the Privacy Policy).
- It does not ask for your X login and cannot reach protected or private content.
- It does not host, upload or republish anyone's content.
Independent from X
BirdGrab is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by X Corp. or Twitter; X is mentioned only to describe which links the service accepts. Every video, GIF and picture belongs to its creator – please keep downloads for personal use and ask the owner before reusing their work (see the Terms of Use).
Languages
The downloader is available in 14 languages: English, Español, Português, Bahasa Indonesia, Français, Deutsch, العربية, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, Русский, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文, ไทย. It also has pages for GIFs, photos and MP3 audio, and all of them in every language.
Contact
You can reach the people who run BirdGrab by email at contact@birdgrab.com – for download problems, copyright or abuse reports and privacy requests. There is no contact form; see the contact page for what to include.