How to extract images from Twitter?
In many cases, open source intelligence investigators may be asked to save images
from social media. twitter is one of the sources of a large amount of data, and here
are three different methods to extract images from tweets.
1. "Save
as"
The easiest way to save an image from Twitter is via your
computer mouse. You can right-click on an image and select "Save Image As...". "The
image is then saved to the location of your choice.
2. Inspect
element
The second way to extract images from tweets is to
check the elements of the image. Right-click on the image and click "Inspect". You
will see the source code of the page and be pointed to the link of the image. If you
hover over the image link, you will see a preview of the image.
Copy the
link and paste it into a new tab so that the photo or video opens in the new tab.
Now, by selecting "Save image as... ", right-click with your mouse to save the
picture. This method also works on Twitter, but it does not yet apply to all social
media.
3. Network requests
The third way to extract Twitter images
is to look at the network request from your browser and get the link to the image
from there. Navigate to the image you want to save, click "F12" to open the browser
developer tools and select the "Network" tab. Then click on the "Img" tab to find
the link to the corresponding image.
Double click on the link to open the
image in a new tab. Now, by selecting "Save picture as... ", right-click with your
mouse to save the photo or video. This method also works for Instagram and Facebook
image extraction, in addition to Twitter.