There are so many great GIFs out there and I want to have copies of them. Twitter makes that harder than it should be by converting them to MP4 and not providing access to the source material. To make it easier, I made a bash pipeline that takes a tweet URL and a filename, extracts the MP4 from that tweet and uses ffmpeg to convert back to GIF.
brew install ffmpegapt install ffmpeg
| # The trick is to link the DeviceSupport folder from the beta to the stable version. | |
| # sudo needed if you run the Mac App Store version. Always download the dmg instead... you'll thank me later :) | |
| # Support iOS 15 devices (Xcode 13.0) with Xcode 12.5: | |
| sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/15.0 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport | |
| # Then restart Xcode and reconnect your devices. You will need to do that for every beta of future iOS versions | |
| # (A similar approach works for older versions too, just change the version number after DeviceSupport) |