How to Search Only Tweets With Images, Videos or Links

To search only tweets with images on X, add filter:images to your query; use filter:videos for videos and filter:links for links. For example, sunset filter:images returns posts about sunsets with a photo attached. Put a minus sign in front of any filter to remove those posts instead.

Media filters are the quickest way to find screenshots, product photos, clips and shared articles. They sit with the other filters in the Twitter advanced search operators reference. This guide is one of the techniques in how to search tweets by keyword.

Twitter Media Filters

X has 9 filters for media and links, from any media at all down to video hosted by X. Listed below are the filters and what each keeps (twitter-advanced-search reference).

Filter	Keeps posts with	Example
filter:media	Any image, video or GIF	cat filter:media
filter:images	Images, including linked image services	sunset filter:images
filter:twimg	Images uploaded to X	cat filter:twimg
filter:videos	Any video, including YouTube links	tutorial filter:videos
filter:native_video	Video uploaded to X	launch filter:native_video
filter:consumer_video	Video uploaded by ordinary accounts	concert filter:consumer_video
filter:pro_video	Video from X’s media partners	highlights filter:pro_video
filter:links	Any URL, media included	ai filter:links
filter:news	Links to news sites	ai filter:news

How Do You Search Tweets With Images Only?

To search tweets with images only, add filter:images after the keyword, or filter:twimg for photos uploaded directly to X. Listed below are the 3 steps.

1. Type your keyword and the filter: "new office" filter:images.
2. Press Enter.
3. Open the Media tab or Latest to browse the images.

How Do You Search Tweets With Videos Only?

To search tweets with videos only, add filter:videos, or filter:native_video to keep only videos uploaded to X and skip YouTube links. "how to" filter:native_video min_faves:100 finds popular tutorial clips. Engagement thresholds are covered in how to search tweets by likes, reposts and replies.

How Do You Search Tweets With Links Only?

To search tweets with web links only, combine filter:links with -filter:media, because X counts photos and videos as links too. topic filter:links -filter:media returns posts that share an article or page. To find links to one site, use url:, as shown in how to search tweets linking to a website or domain.

How Do You Remove Media From Search Results?

To remove media, put a minus sign before the filter: topic -filter:media returns text-only posts, and topic -filter:links removes posts with links. This is useful for reading opinions without promotional link posts. More exclusions are in how to exclude words from Twitter search.

Media Search Examples

These media searches cover the jobs people use filters for most. Replace the words and handles.

Goal	Query
An account’s photos	from:username filter:images
An account’s video posts	from:username filter:native_video
Viral clips on a topic	topic filter:videos min_faves:1000
News coverage of a topic	topic filter:news
Text-only discussion	topic -filter:media -filter:links
Product photos from customers	"brand name" filter:images -from:brand

How to Collect Media Posts With apidojo

apidojo’s Tweet Scraper V2 on Apify collects posts with media and includes the media URLs in each result, and it has onlyImage and onlyVideo inputs that apply the filters for you. The documentation’s media example is from:NASA filter:media (Apify).

{
  "searchTerms": ["from:NASA filter:media"],
  "sort": "Latest"
}

It costs $0.40 per 1,000 tweets. Downloading the media files themselves is covered in how to scrape images and videos from tweets, and the full product is the apidojo Twitter Scraper.