>Can't do that with "gifv" (seriously, I had to use curl just to get the video file from Imgur), and definitely can't do that with Twitter.

youtube-dl works with basically everything that matters, including imgur gifv and twitter videos.

  youtube-dl https://twitter.com/Footballogue/status/841905302438043648

  youtube-dl http://i.imgur.com/te50Z9W.gifv

youtube-dl is the best thing since sliced bread.

thanks to youtube-dl it is simple to download videos in a nice format instead of as gif.

gif as a format has served it's purpose. let gif die.