Scrape and download useful information from TikTok.
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.
- 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
- CLI: save progress to avoid downloading same videos
- Rewrite everything in TypeScript
- Improve proxy support
- Add tests
- Download video without the watermark
- Indicate in the output file(csv/json) if the video was downloaded or not
- Build and run from Docker
- CLI: Scrape and download in batch
- CLi: Load proxies from a file
- CLI: Optional ZIP
- Renew API
- Set WebHook URL (CLI)
- Add new method to collect music metadata
- Add Manual Pagination
- Improve documentation
- Download audio files
- Web interface
- Don't forget about tests
yarn testyarn buildtiktok-scraper requires Node.js v10+ to run.
Install from NPM
npm i -g tiktok-scraperInstall from YARN
yarn global add tiktok-scraper$ 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
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
docker build . -t tiktok-scraperExample 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 -sExample 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.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 watermarkconst 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
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);
}
})();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();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'
}{
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,
}{
challengeId: '4231',
challengeName: 'love',
text: '',
covers: [],
coversMedium: [],
posts: 66904972,
views: '194557706433',
isCommerce: false,
splitTitle: ''
}{
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: [],
}License
MIT
Free Software