Tiktok-Scraper – TikTok Scraper. Download Video Posts, Collect User/Trend/Hashtag/Music Feed Metadata, Sign URL And Etc

Docker

By using docker you won’t be able to use –filepath and –historypath , but you can set volume(host path where all files will be saved) by using -v

Build
docker build . -t tiktok-scraper
Run

Example 1: All files including history file will be saved in the directory($pwd) where you running the docker from

docker run -v $(pwd):/usr/app/files tiktok-scraper user tiktok -d -n 5 -s

Example 2: All files including history file will be saved in /User/blah/downloads

docker run -v /User/blah/downloads:/usr/app/files tiktok-scraper user tiktok -d -n 5 -s

Module

Methods

.user(id, options) //Scrape posts from a specific user (Promise)
.hashtag(id, options) //Scrape posts from hashtag section (Promise)
.trend('', options) // Scrape posts from a trends section (Promise)
.music(id, options) // Scrape posts by music id (Promise)

.userEvent(id, options) //Scrape posts from a specific user (Event)
.hashtagEvent(id, options) //Scrape posts from hashtag section (Event)
.trendEvent('', options) // Scrape posts from a trends section (Event)
.musicEvent(id, options) // Scrape posts by music id (Event)

.getUserProfileInfo('USERNAME', options) // Get user profile information
.getHashtagInfo('HASHTAG', options) // Get hashtag information
.signUrl('URL', options) // Get signature for the request
.getVideoMeta('WEB_VIDEO_URL', options) // Get video meta info, including video url without the watermark
.getMusicInfo('https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6801885499343571718', options) // Get music metadata

Options

video metadata then in return you will receive {headers} object // that was used to extract the information and in order to access and download video through received {videoUrl} value you need to use same headers headers: { ‘user-agent’: “BLAH”, referer: ‘https://www.tiktok.com/’, cookie: `tt_webid_v2=68dssds`, }, // Download video without the watermark: {boolean default: false} // Set to true to download without the watermark // This option will affect the execution speed noWaterMark: false, // Create link to HD video: {boolean default: false} // This option will only work if {noWaterMark} is set to {true} hdVideo: false, // verifyFp is used to verify the request and avoid captcha // When you are using proxy then there are high chances that the request will be // blocked with captcha // You can set your own verifyFp value or default(hardcoded) will be used verifyFp: ”, // Switch main host to Tiktok test enpoint. // When your requests are blocked by captcha you can try to use Tiktok test endpoints. useTestEndpoints: false };”>

const options = {
// Number of posts to scrape: {int default: 20}
number: 50,

// Scrape posts published since this date: { int default: 0}
since: 0,

// Set session: {string[] default: ['']}
// Authenticated session cookie value is required to scrape user/trending/music/hashtag feed
// You can put here any number of sessions, each request will select random session from the list
sessionList: ['sid_tt=21312213'],

// Set proxy {string[] | string default: ''}
// http proxy: 127.0.0.1:8080
// socks proxy: socks5://127.0.0.1:8080
// You can pass proxies as an array and scraper will randomly select a proxy from the array to execute the requests
proxy: '',

// Set to {true} to search by user id: {boolean default: false}
by_user_id: false,

// How many post should be downloaded asynchronously. Only if {download:true}: {int def ault: 5}
asyncDownload: 5,

// How many post should be scraped asynchronously: {int default: 3}
// Current option will be applied only with current types: music and hashtag
// With other types it is always 1 because every request response to the TikTok API is providing the "maxCursor" value
// that is required to send the next request
asyncScraping: 3,

// File path where all files will be saved: {string default: 'CURRENT_DIR'}
filepath: `CURRENT_DIR`,

// Custom file name for the output files: {string default: ''}
fileName: `CURRENT_DIR`,

// Output with information can be saved to a CSV or JSON files: {string default: 'na'}
// 'csv' to save in csv
// 'json' to save in json
// 'all' to save in json and csv
// 'na' to skip this step
filetype: `na`,

// Set custom headers: user-agent, cookie and etc
// NOTE: When you parse video feed or single video metadata then in return you will receive {headers} object
// that was used to extract the information and in order to access and download video through received {videoUrl} value you need to use same headers
headers: {
'user-agent': "BLAH",
referer: 'https://www.tiktok.com/',
cookie: `tt_webid_v2=68dssds`,
},

// Download video without the watermark: {boolean default: false}
// Set to true to download without the watermark
// This option will affect the execution speed
noWaterMark: false,

// Create link to HD video: {boolean default: false}
// This option will only work if {noWaterMark} is set to {true}
hdVideo: false,

// verifyFp is used to verify the request and avoid captcha
// When you are using proxy then there are high chances that the request will be
// blocked with captcha
// You can set y our own verifyFp value or default(hardcoded) will be used
verifyFp: '',

// Switch main host to Tiktok test enpoint.
// When your requests are blocked by captcha you can try to use Tiktok test endpoints.
useTestEndpoints: false
};

Don’t forget to check the examples folder

Promise

const TikTokScraper = require('tiktok-scraper');

// User feed by username
(async () => {
try {
const posts = await TikTokScraper.user('USERNAME', {
number: 100,
sessionList: ['sid_tt=58ba9e34431774703d3c34e60d584475;']
});
console.log(posts);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
})();

// User feed by user id
// Some TikTok user id's are larger then MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, you need to pass user id as a string
(async () => {
try {
const posts = await TikTokScraper.user(`USER_ID`, {
number: 100,
by_user_id: true,
sessionList: ['sid_tt=58ba9e34431774703d3c34e60d584475;']
});
console.log(posts);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
})();

// Trending feed
(async () => {
try {
const posts = await TikTokScraper.trend('', {
number: 100,
sessionList: ['sid_tt=58ba9e34431774703d3c34e60d584475;']
});
console.log(posts);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
})();

// Hashtag feed
(async () => {
try {
const posts = await TikTokScraper.hashtag('HASHTAG', {
number: 100,
sessionList: ['sid_tt=58ba9e34431774703d3c34e60d584475;']
});
console.log(posts);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
})();

// Get single user profile information: Number of followers and etc
// input - USERNAME
// options - not required
(async () => {
try {
const user = await TikTokScraper.getUserProfileInfo('USERNAME', options);
console.log(user);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
})();< br/>
// Get single hashtag information: Number of views and etc
// input - HASHTAG NAME
// options - not required
(async () => {
try {
const hashtag = await TikTokScraper.getHashtagInfo('HASHTAG', options);
console.log(hashtag);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
})();


// Get single video metadata
// input - WEB_VIDEO_URL
// For example: https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/6807491984882765062
// options - not required
(async () => {
try {
const videoMeta = await TikTokScraper.getVideoMeta('https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/6807491984882765062', options);
console.log(videoMeta);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
})();

Event

const TikTokScraper = require('tiktok-scraper');

const users = TikTokScraper.userEvent("tiktok", { number: 30 });
users.on('data', json => {
//data in JSON format
});
users.on('done', () => {
//completed
});
users.on('error', error => {
//error message
});
users.scrape();

const hashtag = TikTokScraper.hashtagEvent("summer", { number: 250, proxy: 'socks5://1.1.1.1:90' });
hashtag.on('data', json => {
//data in JSON format
});
hashtag.on('done', () => {
//completed
});
hashtag.on('error', error => {
//error message
});
hashtag.scrape();

Get Set Session

NOT REQUIRED

Very common problem is when tiktok is blacklisting your IP/PROXY and in such case you can try to set session and there will be higher chances for success

Get the session:

  • Open https://www.tiktok.com/ in any browser
  • Login in to your account
  • Right click -> inspector -> networking
  • Refresh page -> select any request that was made to the tiktok -> go to the Request Header sections -> Cookies
  • Find in cookies sid_tt value. It usually looks like that: sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312;
  • sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312; – this will be your authenticated session cookie value that should be used to scrape user/hashtag/music/trending feed

Set the session:

  • CLI:

    • Set single session by using option –session. For example –session sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312;
    • Set path to the file with the list of sessions by using option –session-file. For example –session-file /var/bob/sessionList.txt
      • Example content /var/bob/sessionList.txt:
      sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312;
      sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312;
      sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312;
      sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312;
  • In the MODULE you can set session by setting the option value sessionList . For example sessionList:[“sid_tt=521kkadkasdaskdj4j213j12j312;”, “sid_tt=12312312312312;”]

Download Video

This part is related to the MODULE usage (NOT THE CLI)

The {videoUrl} value is binded to the cookie value {tt_webid_v2} that can contain any value

Method 1: default headers

When you extract videos from the user, hashtag, music, trending feed or single video then in response besides the video metadata you will receive headers object that will contain params that were used to extract the data. Here is the important part, in order to access/download video through {videoUrl} value you need to use same {headers} values.

    headers: {
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.80 Safari/537.36",
"referer": "https://www.tiktok.com/",
"cookie": "tt_webid_v2=689854141086886123"
},

Method 2: custom headers

You can pass your own headers with the {options}.

const headers = {
"user-agent": "BOB",
"referer": "https://www.tiktok.com/",
"cookie": "tt_webid_v2=BOB"
}
getVideoMeta('WEB_VIDEO_URL', {headers})
user('WEB_VIDEO_URL', {headers})
hashtag('WEB_VIDEO_URL', {headers})
trend('WEB_VIDEO_URL', {headers})
music('WEB_VIDEO_URL', {headers})
// And after you can access video through {videoUrl} value by using same custom headers

Json Output Example

Video Feed

Example output for the methods: user, hashtag, trend, music, userEvent, hashtagEvent, musicEvent, trendEvent

{
headers: {
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.80 Safari/537.36',
referer: 'https://www.tiktok.com/',
cookie: 'tt_webid_v2=689854141086886123'
},
collector:[{
id: 'VIDEO_ID',
text: 'CAPTION',
createTime: '1583870600',
authorMeta:{
id: 'USER ID',
name: 'USERNAME',
following: 195,
fans: 43500,
heart: '1093998',
video: 3,
digg: 95,
verified: false,
private: false,
signature: 'USER BIO',
avatar:'AVATAR_URL'
},
musicMeta:{
musicId: '6808098113188120838',
musicName: 'blah blah',
musicAuthor: 'blah',
musicOriginal: true,
playUrl: 'SOUND/MUSIC_URL',
},
covers:{
default: 'COVER_URL',
origin: 'COVER_URL',
dynamic: 'COVER_URL'
},
imageUrl:'IMAGE_URL',
videoUrl:'VIDEO_URL',
videoUrlNoWaterMark:'VIDEO_URL_WITHOUT_THE_WATERMARK',
videoMeta: { width: 480, height: 864, ratio: 14, duration: 14 },
diggCount: 2104,
shareCount: 1,
playCount: 9007,
commentCount: 50,
mentions: ['@bob', '@sam', '@bob_again', '@and_sam_again'],
hashtags:
[{
id: '69573911',
name: 'PlayWithLife',
title: 'HASHTAG_TITLE',
cover: [Array]
}...],
downloaded: true
}...],
//If {filetype} and {download} options are enbabled then:
zip: '/{CURRENT_PATH}/user_1552963581094.zip',
json: '/{CURRENT_PATH}/user_ 1552963581094.json',
csv: '/{CURRENT_PATH}/user_1552963581094.csv'
}
getUserProfileInfo
{
secUid: 'MS4wLjABAAAAv7iSuuXDJGDvJkmH_vz1qkDZYo1apxgzaxdBSeIuPiM',
userId: '107955',
isSecret: false,
uniqueId: 'tiktok',
nickName: 'TikTok',
signature: 'Make Your Day',
covers: ['COVER_URL'],
coversMedium: ['COVER_URL'],
following: 490,
fans: 38040567,
heart: '211522962',
video: 93,
verified: true,
digg: 29,
}
getHashtagInfo
{
challengeId: '4231',
challengeName: 'love',
text: '',
covers: [],
coversMedium: [],
posts: 66904972,
views: '194557706433',
isCommerce: false,
splitTitle: ''
}
getVideoMeta
{
headers: {
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.80 Safari/537.36',
referer: 'https://www.tiktok.com/',
cookie: 'tt_webid_v2=689854141086886123'
},
collector:[{
id: '6807491984882765062',
text: 'We’re kicking off the #happyathome live stream series today at 5pm PT!',
createTime: '1584992742',
authorMeta: { id: '6812221792183403526', name: 'blah' },
musicMeta:{
musicId: '6822233276137213677',
musicName: 'blah',
musicAuthor: 'blah'
},
imageUrl: 'IMAGE_URL',
videoUrl: 'VIDEO_URL',
videoUrlNoWaterMark: 'VIDEO_URL_WITHOUT_THE_WATERMARK',
videoMeta: { width: 480, height: 864, ratio: 14, duration: 14 },
covers:{
default: 'COV ER_URL',
origin: 'COVER_URL'
},
diggCount: 49292,
shareCount: 339,
playCount: 614678,
commentCount: 4023,
downloaded: false,
hashtags: [],
}]
}
getMusicInfo
{
music: {
id: '6882925279036066566',
title: 'doja x calabria',
playUrl: 'dfdfdfdf',
coverThumb:
'dfdfdf',
coverMedium:
'dfdfdf',
coverLarge:
'fdfdf',
authorName: 'bryce',
original: true,
playToken:
'ffdfdf',
keyToken: 'dfdfdfd',
audioURLWithcookie: false,
private: false,
duration: 46,
album: '',
},
author: {
id: '6835300004094166021',
uniqueId: 'mashupsbybryce',
nickname: 'bryce',
avatarThumb:
'dfdfd',
avatarMedium:
'dfdfdf',
avatarLarger:
'dfdfdf',
signature: 'hi ily :)n70k sounds cool tbhn👇follow my soundcloud & insta👇',
verified: false,
secUid: 'MS4wLjABAAAA1_5bjLAamayD4rv3q49qJGa_7dZ5jzExTO0ozOybqIwwhw5TAg_iM25lkO94DM3K',
secret: false,
ftc: false,
relation: 0,
openFavorite: false,
commentSetting: 0,
duetSetting: 0,
stitchSetting: 0,
privateAccount: false,
},
stats: { videoCount: 361700 },
shareMeta: {
title: 'bryceyouloser | ♬ doja x calabria | on TikTok',
desc: '361.0k videos - Watch awesome short ' + 'videos created with ♬ doja x calabria',
},
};

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