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v1.2.14

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TikTok Scraper & Downloader. Scrape information from User, Trending and HashTag pages and download video posts

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TikTok Scraper

TikTok Scraper & Downloader

Scrape and download useful information from TikTok.

No login or password are required

This is not an official API support and etc. This is just a scraper that is using TikTok Web API to scrape media and related meta information.

Content

Features

Download unlimited post metadata from the User, Hashtag, Trends, or Music-Id pages
Save post metadata to the JSON/CSV files
Download media with and without the watermark and save to the ZIP file
Download single video without the watermark from the CLI
Sign URL to make custom request to the TIkTok API
Extract metadata from the User, Hashtag and Single Video pages
Save previous progress and download only new videos that weren't downloaded before. This feature only works from the CLI and only if download flag is on.
View and manage previously downloaded posts history in the CLI
Scrape and download user, hashtag, music feeds and single videos specified in the file in batch mode

To Do

[x] CLI: save progress to avoid downloading same videos
[x] Rewrite everything in TypeScript
[x] Improve proxy support
[x] Add tests
[x] Download video without the watermark
[x] Indicate in the output file(csv/json) if the video was downloaded or not
[x] Build and run from Docker
[x] CLI: Scrape and download in batch
[x] CLi: Load proxies from a file
[x] CLI: Optional ZIP
[x] Renew API
[x] Set WebHook URL (CLI)
[ ] Add new method to collect music metadata
[ ] Add Manual Pagination
[ ] Improve documentation
[ ] Download audio files
[ ] Web interface

Contribution

Don't forget about tests

yarn test

yarn build

Installation

tiktok-scraper requires Node.js v10+ to run.

Install from NPM

npm i -g tiktok-scraper

Install from YARN

yarn global add tiktok-scraper

USAGE

In Terminal

$ tiktok-scraper --help

Usage: tiktok-scraper <command> [options]

Commands:
  tiktok-scraper user [id]     Scrape videos from username. Enter only username
  tiktok-scraper hashtag [id]  Scrape videos from hashtag. Enter hashtag without #
  tiktok-scraper trend         Scrape posts from current trends
  tiktok-scraper music [id]    Scrape posts from a music id number
  tiktok-scraper video [id]    Download single video without the watermark
  tiktok-scraper history       View previous download history
  tiktok-scraper from-file [file] [async]  Scrape users, hashtags, music, videos mentioned
                                in a file. 1 value per 1 line

Options:
  --version               Show version number                          [boolean]
  --timeout               Set timeout between requests. Timeout is in
                          Milliseconds: 1000 mls = 1 s              [default: 0]
  --number, -n            Number of posts to scrape. If you will set 0 then all
                          posts will be scraped                     [default: 0]
  --proxy, -p             Set single proxy                         [default: ""]
  --proxy-file            Use proxies from a file. Scraper will use random
                          proxies from the file per each request. 1 line 1
                          proxy.                                   [default: ""]
  --download, -d          Download video posts to the folder with the name input
                          [id]                        [boolean] [default: false]
  --asyncDownload, -a     Number of concurrent downloads            [default: 5]
  --hd                    Download video in HD. Video size will be x5-x10 times
                          larger and this will affect scraper execution speed.
                          This option only works in combination with -w flag
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  --zip, -z               ZIP all downloaded video posts
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  --filepath              File path to save all output files.
      [default: "/Users/blah/blah"]
  --filetype, --type, -t  Type of the output file where post information will
                          be saved. 'all' - save information about all posts to
                          the` 'json' and 'csv'
                               [choices: "csv", "json", "all", ""] [default: ""]
  --filename, -f          Set custom filename for the output files [default: ""]
  --noWaterMark, -w       Download video without the watermark. This option will
                          affect the execution speed  [boolean] [default: false]
  --store, -s             Scraper will save the progress in the OS TMP or Custom
                          folder and in the future usage will only download new
                          videos avoiding duplicates  [boolean] [default: false]
  --historypath           Set custom path where history file/files will be
                          stored
                   [default: "/var/folders/d5/fyh1_f2926q7c65g7skc0qh80000gn/T"]
  --remove, -r            Delete the history record by entering "TYPE:INPUT" or
                          "all" to clean all the history. For example: user:bob
                                                                   [default: ""]
  --webHookUrl       Set webhook url to receive scraper result as HTTP requests.
                     For example to your own API                   [default: ""]
  --method           Receive data to your webhook url as POST or GET request
                                      [choices: "GET", "POST"] [default: "POST"]
  --help             Show help                                         [boolean]

Examples:
  tiktok-scraper user USERNAME -d -n 100
  tiktok-scraper user USERNAME -d -n 100 -f customFileName
  tiktok-scraper hashtag HASHTAG_NAME -d -n 100
  tiktok-scraper trend -d -n 100
  tiktok-scraper music MUSICID -n 100
  tiktok-scraper music MUSIC_ID -d -n 50
  tiktok-scraper video https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/6807491984882765062
  tiktok-scraper history
  tiktok-scraper history -r user:bob
  tiktok-scraper history -r all
  tiktok-scraper from-file BATCH_FILE ASYNC_TASKS -d -n 25

Output File Example

Demo

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

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

    // 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 default: 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`,

    // Custom User-Agent
    // {string default: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/{RANDOM_VERSION}.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36' }
    userAgent: '',
    
    // 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,
};

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 });
        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 });
        console.log(posts);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
})();

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

// Hashtag feed
(async () => {
    try {
        const posts = await TikTokScraper.hashtag('HASHTAG', { number: 100 });
        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);
    }
})();

// 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);
    }
})();

// Sign tiktok Web Api URL
// url - full url
// options - you can set the User-Agent and other options
const rp = require('request-promise');

(async () => {
    try {
        const userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36';
        const url = 'https://m.tiktok.com/share/item/list?secUid=&id=355503&type=3&count=30&minCursor=0&maxCursor=0&shareUid=&lang=';

        const signature = await TikTokScraper.signUrl(url, { userAgent });

        const result = await rp({
            uri: `${url}&_signature=${signature}`,
            headers: {
                'user-agent': userAgent,
            },
        });
        console.log(result);
    } 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();

Json Output Example

Video Feed

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

{
    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

{
    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: 'COVER_URL',
        origin: 'COVER_URL'
    },
    diggCount: 49292,
    shareCount: 339,
    playCount: 614678,
    commentCount: 4023,
    downloaded: false,
    hashtags: [],
}

getMusicInfo

{
    musicId: '6801885499343571718',
    musicName: 'original sound',
    uniqueId: 'tiktok',
    secUid: 'MS4wLjABAAAAv7iSuuXDJGDvJkmH_vz1qkDZYo1apxgzaxdBSeIuPiM',
    authorId: '107955',
    authorName: 'tiktok',
    playUrl: {
        Uri: 'musically-maliva-obj/1660617654568981.mp3',
        UrlList: ['https://p16-va-tiktok.ibyteimg.com/obj/musically-maliva-obj/1660617654568981.mp3'],
    },
    covers: ['https://p16-va-tiktok.ibyteimg.com/img/musically-maliva-obj/1645136815763462~c5_100x100.jpeg'],
    posts: 214,
    original: true,
    authorCovers: ['https://p16-va-tiktok.ibyteimg.com/img/musically-maliva-obj/1645136815763462~c5_720x720.jpeg'],
    coversMedium: ['https://p16-va-tiktok.ibyteimg.com/img/musically-maliva-obj/1645136815763462~c5_720x720.jpeg'],
    playToken:
        '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',
    keyToken: 'HMAC-SHA1%3A1.0%3A1593357510%3AAKLTMzM1MGI0YTg5N2Y0NDc4ZmEyOTYxMzIxZjZjMWNjNzg%3AGIpA60%2B9EDlcP1MXCTeI%2BEpzmGg%3D',
    audioURLWithCookie: false,
    private: false,
}

License

MIT

Free Software