A lot of artist are posting most of their stuff on Twitter nowadays, which sucks because there seems to be a lot of compression on Twitter, is there a way to get the original version? Kind of like the Tumblr raw url hack? Thanks.

From my personal testing, twitter does indeed have ability to save stuff as PNG, but it seems really random and tricks for having this is for uploaders end. PNG being lossless would avoid the whole issue with compression.

Also as PSA, twitter does also almost always save PNG file under .png:large even if embedded file is JPG, but that version always has JPG artifacting and is visually identical with .jpg:large so that version is almost always to be avoided.

Videos and GIFs seem to always be converted into really compressed MP4 files, so having access to original file would be amazing.

If someone does find something, please feel free to update wiki: https://e621.net/wiki/show/howto:sites_and_sources#twitter

Mario69 said:
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So basically...no way to get a better version. I think I will just wait until the artist posts it to Tumblr then I can get the best version from there. I really hate Twitter for this reason -.- these platforms were honestly not designed as art boards, I don't know why artists even use them as such.

Dyrone said:
So basically...no way to get a better version. I think I will just wait until the artist posts it to Tumblr then I can get the best version from there. I really hate Twitter for this reason -.- these platforms were honestly not designed as art boards, I don't know why artists even use them as such.

Furaffinity is platform designed for posting artwork and still somehow some artwork can be found with better quality from twitter.

And to be fair, before someone managed to figure tumblr out, all stuff from there was also downscaled - at least downscaled better than on FA, site for artwork versus blogging site, but still downscaled.

change :large to :orig and you get what is supposed to be the original file. I haven't confirmed that it actually gets you the original, but it tends to be larger than the :large version.

Edit: Oh, I guess that's on the wiki, it's just hiding a bit.

KiraNoot said:
change :large to :orig and you get what is supposed to be the original file. I haven't confirmed that it actually gets you the original, but it tends to be larger than the :large version.

Yes, I've tried :orig. Sadly it seems to get me the exact same file as :large, and I highly doubt the artist uploads compressed images on Twitter considering all the stuff she uploads to Tumblr is not compressed (when you get the RAW version).

KiraNoot said:
change :large to :orig and you get what is supposed to be the original file. I haven't confirmed that it actually gets you the original, but it tends to be larger than the :large version.

Edit: Oh, I guess that's on the wiki, it's just hiding a bit.

only gives original resolution, file is still modified by twitter in all cases and if it's JPG, the compression levels are really high.

Dyrone said:
Yes, I've tried :orig. Sadly it seems to get me the exact same file as :large, and I highly doubt the artist uploads compressed images on Twitter considering all the stuff she uploads to Tumblr is not compressed (when you get the RAW version).

If the resolution is lower than (if I remember correctly) 2048px, then :large and :orig are identical, same if the image is lower than 1024px then all files are identical.
It's still best to use :orig at least right now as I stated above that it's possible for users to replace .jpg:orig with .png:large and get PNG file with JPG compression, which have even gotten users suspended here.

Which almost makes me think that the files could be created dynamically from original when required as it still seems insane to me to keep PNG versions of images with JPG compression.