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'''TikTok''' is a social media app for short, user generated videos developed by the Chinese company ByteDance. The app was launched internationally in September 2017 and merged with musical.ly on 9 November 2017.
'''TikTok''' is a social media app for short, user generated videos developed by the Chinese company ByteDance. The app was launched internationally in September 2017 and merged with musical.ly on 9 November 2017.
== Douyin ==
Douyin is the China-only version of TikTok.
Sites:
* https://www.douyin.com | Main page
* https://sso.douyin.com | Some sort of login thing? Unsure
* https://renzheng.douyin.com | Unsure
* https://v.douyin.com | Redirects to iesdouyin, where videos are
* https://open.douyin.com | Unsure
* https://musician.douyin.com | Unsure
* https://creator.douyin.com | Unsure
* https://www.iesdouyin.com | Videos are seen on this page
If anyone who can read Chinese would like to help out, that'd be great.


== Archiving tools ==
== Archiving tools ==

Revision as of 23:21, 10 June 2020

TikTok
TikTok logo
tiktok home page as seen on November 9, 2019
tiktok home page as seen on November 9, 2019
URL https://www.tiktok.com/
Status Online!
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #TikOff (on hackint)

TikTok is a social media app for short, user generated videos developed by the Chinese company ByteDance. The app was launched internationally in September 2017 and merged with musical.ly on 9 November 2017.

Douyin

Douyin is the China-only version of TikTok.

Sites:

If anyone who can read Chinese would like to help out, that'd be great.

Archiving tools

youtube-dl is able to grab videos straight from the site

A tool to generate the signature TikTok uses to sign all their requests exists and is actively updated

TikTokTake

Work is being done to create a tool that can get all of a users videos and WARC them up, that's being implemented in a cli tool and irc bot TikTokTake

TikUp

TikUp is a Python package that gets all videos from a user or a hashtag, and uploads them to the Internet Archive under `tiktok-<video id>`. Github link

Vital Signs

  • The first request for archival was in October 2019 due to removal of pro-LGBTQ content, even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal. [1]
  • Videos from chinese TikTok can not be seen outside of china. [2]

Notes

  • https://m.tiktok.com/v/<id> is a better way to archive videos, versus https://www.tiktok.com/@<username>/video/<id>. (because it requires the ID only, not the username and the ID)
  • Videos without sound can't be viewed or downloaded(it just says 'Video currently unavailable') on desktop, and their links don't work, but they can be viewed and downloaded on mobile.