TikTok Scraper

Kalinin Dmitry
3 min readDec 18, 2020

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.

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

In Terminal

$ tiktok-scraper --helpUsage: 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

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

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