Twitter API Media entities always empty

Question

I'm trying to get a list of tweets from one user and retrieve the media urls from the entities. When I look at the json feeding the tweet on the twitter website, it has a media object in the entities as documented, but when I use the API the media is missing.

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=TWEET_ID

Answer 1

You just have to add &tweet_mode=extended to get the media