TikTok is one of biggest social media that contains billions of user arround the world. This is huge platform to advertise and reach global people. To analyze TikTok users or informations you need a data on specific issues. But how to scrape data from TikTok, to answer this question you can do it manually or you can use some tools to extract data from TikTok.
TikTok Scraper and 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.
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
- 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
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
$ 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]
--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
Output File Example
