TikTok

TikTok is a social media app and Website 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. It is currently under intense scrutiny for its collection and use of user data, primarily in its relationship with China.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#User_privacy_concerns
== Douyin ==
Douyin(抖音) is the China-only version of TikTok.
Sites:
* https://www.douyin.com | Main page, where videos are
* https://sso.douyin.com | Login to Douyin
* https://renzheng.douyin.com | Douyin for enterprise
* https://open.douyin.com | API and other developer tools
* https://musician.douyin.com | Douyin for musician
* https://creator.douyin.com | Douyin for creator
* https://www.iesdouyin.com | Redirects to main page
If anyone who can read Chinese would like to help out, that'd be great.
== Archiving tools ==
yt-dlp 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 was at one point being done to create a tool that can get all of a user's videos and WARC them up, which was being implemented in a cli tool and irc bot known as 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>. (Archived) 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. "TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content" - Article on The Guardian
* Videos from Douyin (Chinese TikTok) can not be seen outside of China. "TikTok - Yes, TikTok - Is the Latest Window Into China’s Police State" - Article on Wired
* In August 2020 Trump said "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," "Trump says he will ban TikTok" - Article on CNN 
* On , the Trump administration planned to ban downloads of the TikTok app starting , and access was proposed to be cut off on . However, this never came to be.United States bans Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat downloads over national security fears - Article on ABC News (AU)
* On , the US House passed a law that would ban TikTok if it wasn't divested by ByteDance. It was signed into law on . A lawsuit was filed by TikTok contesting the constitutionality, however the federal court upheld the law. It was then appealed to the Supreme Court, which also upheld the law. Without a divestiture, TikTok was banned on .Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban package after Republican battle - Article on Reuters Many users have fled to Chinese app Xiaohongshu, or "RedNote", in response to the shutdown.
== Archival Locations ==
Tiktok Video Bin on the Internet Archive is where the TikToks uploaded with TikUp and all videos uploaded with the identifier 'tiktok-<video id>' go. The Internet Archive deindexed this collection some time in 2020.https://archive.fart.website/bin/irclogger_log/archiveteam-ot?date=2021-04-13,Tue
== 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 directly on desktop (it just says 'Video currently unavailable', however viewing them via user page will work), and their links don't work, but they can be viewed and downloaded on mobile.
* If we wanted to make a Warrior, we could use https://vm.tiktok.com/*******/, I think it's alphanumeric, but I'm not sure if these links work for every TikTok.
** A minor caution regarding using https://vm.tiktok.com/*******/ URLs; they redirect to the full video URLs mentioned above, but also include telemetry parameters (_t=... and _r=...). It is believed that the former parameter equates to a unique identifier TikTok has assigned to both authenticated and non-authenticated users.
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