From b2e377b650a9c8851b365fbd3173457338029d84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:51:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [twitter] fix TypeError when '_user_obj' is None (#8648)

fixes regression introduced in 406a74cfaaf9f44003ac2e64583172eaebdb2b0e
---
 gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
index 48849f4b..de5182da 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
@@ -2029,7 +2029,9 @@ class TwitterAPI():
                     cursor = cursor.get("value")
 
             if pinned_tweet is not None:
-                if pinned := extr._user_obj["legacy"].get(
+                if extr._user_obj is None:
+                    pinned = None
+                elif pinned := extr._user_obj["legacy"].get(
                         "pinned_tweet_ids_str"):
                     pinned = f"-tweet-{pinned[0]}"
                     for idx, entry in enumerate(tweets):