Ensure that video/gif embeds in tweets are also cached locally

build/lib/tweetparse.js

@@ -129,6 +129,22 @@ module.exports = exports = function (tweets) {
           media.media_url_https = '/' + mediaItem.output;
         }
 
+        if (media.video_info && media.video_info.variants) {
+          media.video_info.variants = media.video_info.variants.map((variant) => {
+            if (!variant.url) return variant;
+
+            const mediaItem = {
+              input: variant.url,
+              output: `tweets/${tweet.id_str}/${path.basename(variant.url)}`,
+              cache: `twitter-entities/${tweet.id_str}/${path.basename(variant.url)}`,
+            };
+            tweet.media.push(mediaItem);
+            variant.url = '/' + mediaItem.output;
+
+            return variant;
+          });
+        }
+
         return media;
       });
 

scss/_tweet.scss

@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@
   }
 
   .tweet-footer {
-    display: block;
+    display: flex;
+    flex: 1 1 auto;
+    align-items: flex-end;
     color: $textLight;
     font-size: 1em;
     margin-top: 10px;

templates/tweet.hbs

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         </video>
         {{/is}}
         {{#is type 'animated_gif'}}
-        <video controls muted loop poster="{{media_url_https}}" class="tweet-video">
+        <video controls autoplay muted loop poster="{{media_url_https}}" class="tweet-video">
           {{#each video_info.variants}}
           <source src="{{url}}" type="{{content_type}}">
           {{/each}}