# 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.
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## Content
- [Features](#features)
- [To Do](#to-do)
- [Contribution](#contribution)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [In Terminal](#in-terminal)
- [Terminal Examples](https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper/tree/master/examples/CLI/Examples.md)
- [Manage Download History](https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper/tree/master/examples/CLI/DownloadHistory.md)
- [Scrape and Download in Batch](https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper/tree/master/examples/CLI/BatchDownload.md)
- [Output File Example](#output-file-example)
- [Docker](#docker)
- [Build](#build)
- [Run](#run)
- [Module](#docker)
- [Methods](#methods)
- [Options](#options)
- [Use with Promises](#promise)
- [Use with Events](#event)
- [How to get/set session value](#get-set-session)
- [How to access/download video](#download-video)
- [Output Example](#json-output-example)
- [Video Feed Methods](#video-feed)
- [getUserProfileInfo](#getUserProfileInfo)
- [getHashtagInfo](#getHashtagInfo)
- [getVideoMeta](#getVideoMeta)
- [getMusicInfo](#getMusicInfo)
## Important notes
- As of right now it is NOT possible to download video without the watermark
## 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)
- [x] Add new method to collect music metadata
- [ ] Add Manual Pagination
- [ ] Improve documentation
- [ ] Download audio files
- [ ] Web interface
## Contribution
- Don't forget about tests
```sh
yarn test
```
```sh
yarn build
```
## Installation
tiktok-scraper requires [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) v10+ to run.
**Install from NPM**
```sh
npm i -g tiktok-scraper
```
**Install from YARN**
```sh
yarn global add tiktok-scraper
```
## USAGE
### In Terminal
```sh
$ tiktok-scraper --help
Usage: tiktok-scraper [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]
--session Set session cookie value. Sometimes session can be
helpful when scraping data from any method [default: ""]
--session-file Set path to the file with list of active sessions. One
session per line! [default: ""]
--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]
--since Scrape no posts published before this date (timestamp).
If set to 0 the filter is deactived [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/karl.wint/Documents/projects/javascript/tiktok-scraper"]
--filetype, -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. NOTE: With the
recent update you only need to use this option if you are
scraping Hashtag Feed. User/Trend/Music feeds will have
this url by default [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 --session sid_tt=dae32131231
tiktok-scraper trend -d -n 100 --session sid_tt=dae32131231
tiktok-scraper hashtag HASHTAG_NAME -d -n 100 --session sid_tt=dae32131231
tiktok-scraper music MUSIC_ID -d -n 50 --session sid_tt=dae32131231
tiktok-scraper video https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/6807491984882765062 -d
tiktok-scraper history
tiktok-scraper history -r user:bob
tiktok-scraper history -r all
tiktok-scraper from-file BATCH_FILE ASYNC_TASKS -d
```
- [Terminal Examples](https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper/tree/master/examples/CLI/Examples.md)
- [Manage Download History](https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper/tree/master/examples/CLI/DownloadHistory.md)
- [Scrape and Download in Batch](https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper/tree/master/examples/CLI/BatchDownload.md)
### Output File Example
## 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
```sh
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
```sh
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
```sh
docker run -v /User/blah/downloads:/usr/app/files tiktok-scraper user tiktok -d -n 5 -s
```
## Module
### Methods
```javascript
.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
```javascript
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 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`,
// 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 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
};
```
Don't forget to check the **examples** folder
### Promise
```javascript
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);
}
})();
// 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
```javascript
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**.
```json
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}**.
```javascript
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**
```javascript
{
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
```javascript
{
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
```javascript
{
challengeId: '4231',
challengeName: 'love',
text: '',
covers: [],
coversMedium: [],
posts: 66904972,
views: '194557706433',
isCommerce: false,
splitTitle: ''
}
```
##### getVideoMeta
```javascript
{
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: 'COVER_URL',
origin: 'COVER_URL'
},
diggCount: 49292,
shareCount: 339,
playCount: 614678,
commentCount: 4023,
downloaded: false,
hashtags: [],
}]
}
```
##### getMusicInfo
```javascript
{
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 tbh\n👇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',
},
};
```
---
License
---
**MIT**
**Free Software**