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4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

https://tiktok-api.seeksocial.io/
33•TheOnlyWayUp•59m ago

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smallerize•25m ago
There's no way this dataset is going to survive on HF, right? It will be hit with so many DMCA takedowns.
deviation•24m ago
My thoughts also
ckugblenu•23m ago
This is being posted all over the place. on multiple subreddits and stuff. Why?
Retr0id•23m ago
Can any brave soul wade through the LLM prose to provide a human-readable summary?
405error•15m ago
I cannot verify whether it is technically correct, but it's about how to defeat Tiktok's bot filters to scrape it.
arcfour•8m ago
Man, I could use $699. If this gets even a single sale, then maybe I need to try having less decency...

(I guess that is sort of a roundabout summary...)

echoangle•5m ago
Would you say that this is immoral? Since it’s data that’s public anyways, I don’t see why putting it in a table and selling it is a bad thing.
igor_nast•22m ago
Is this even useful in any way?
magicmicah85•20m ago
>Is it legal? It is against TikTok's terms of service. It is sold for research and educational use.

Oh, ok. Otherwise, very detailed deconstruction to scrape their API. Lots of layers of registration and creating a request that looks like it is valid client.

pr337h4m•19m ago
There aren't any actual videos in the dataset though.
405error•10m ago
The first immediate smell is that if you have 4.5B rows and 289GB in data, you have ~60 bytes per row.
gdevenyi•18m ago
Like gazing into hell
VulgarExigency•9m ago
In 2026, everything we say, see or do on the internet is just another data point for some unscrupulous bastard to seek profit from.
raver1975•14m ago
That data does not belong to the public. Why do you think it is OK to steal from TikTok?
theplumber•10m ago
Is this sarcasm on AI companies?
moinism•12m ago
> Everything described here is a private Go repository. One-time payment, permanent access, complete source. > $699 one time · lifetime access

Not open-source apparently.

And I cant find the reddit post but I think I read that videos/assets are not actually pre-downloaded, they have to be requested through Tiktok API using the provided code. So if Tiktok patches, the code will need updates too.

nomilk•5m ago
I think the post is essentially a decent technical-explainer (value adding and interesting) in exchange for effectively a little product placement (the code which you setup yourself or code already running on a server)

But I think this is the 289GB data (free): https://huggingface.co/datasets/kuben-developer/tiktok-video...

VulgarExigency•10m ago
Absolutely no consideration for the people who, when posting things to Tiktok, would prefer for them not to get scraped.

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