Downloading twitter video using python (without using twitter api)

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I want to download twitter video without using twitter’s official API . So when i open an icognito tab in chrome and request any video like “https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1248140219490209792”
i see twitter requests two important headers to server the video
1.‘authorization’
2. ‘x-guest-token’

which i seem to cannot get where are these tokens are generated from ? belown is my python request which i am sending .

import requests

headers = {

    'authority': 'api.twitter.com',

    'dnt': '1',

    'x-twitter-client-language': 'en',

    # 'x-csrf-token': '6089ceeab3324243e7b952679b2b7851',

    'authorization': 'Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANk3DgEAAAAAB0pZx4xjgXBOoalj%2FRbagurxD2M%3DG8634UVlBud8LrLG4nGo7FpN2RCO2xul5BuPKHuejUAV14O0KG',

    'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36',

    'sec-fetch-dest': 'empty',

    'x-guest-token': '1248286947669237760',

    'x-twitter-active-user': 'yes',

    'accept': '*/*',

    'origin': 'https://twitter.com',

    'sec-fetch-site': 'same-site',

    'sec-fetch-mode': 'cors',

    'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9,hi;q=0.8',

    # 'cookie': 'personalization_id="v1_tWyK8Fn5ofSPjSAEKsnyrw=="; guest_id=v1%3A158644503604220835; ct0=6089ceeab3324243e7b952679b2b7851; _twitter_sess=BAh7CSIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29udHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxhc2g6OkZsYXNo%250ASGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7ADoPY3JlYXRlZF9hdGwrCDI2fl9xAToMY3NyZl9p%250AZCIlNmM2YjZiYTU4MzdhY2FkNDQwZjcwMGU1NDliNzEzN2Y6B2lkIiViOWUx%250AYzM5MDk3ZTQ0YzMyZDRkMGU3YTdkM2FlMGY2YQ%253D%253D--223c07ac4708a9bec30dec1e0e9c3d52544b310c; _ga=GA1.2.162154316.1586445033; _gid=GA1.2.1445748635.1586445033; gt=1248286947669237760',

}

response = requests.get('https://api.twitter.com/2/timeline/conversation/1248293309950255107.json')

print(response.text)

so help me in geeting those two tokens .

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I think you’ve already made a post on stackoverflow & it seems to be solved there!

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No it’s not.