Tools Best TikTok downloader?

not me. I have only seen creators where one of the videos is free but the rest are locked. Perhaps it did not had enough subs and decided to go free for now.
 
Finally found out what the issue is
I got two phones, one one it doesn't display sub only videos (so I am only seeing those normal videos)
On another phone it shows sub only videos but it's lock behind a paywall.
Its just a matter of things being displayed differently on different phones.
 
Finally got around to trying this out.
Can you confirm if it is currently working? I can't seem to get it to work with any public TikTok streams, neither by streaming to a file or player.
I am always getting these errors:
[plugins.tiktok][error] The stream is inaccessible
error: No playable streams found on this URL: [url]
edit: okay, it is working with cookies, but not without. Is this normal?
 
yup it still works for me using this bat script
Code: 
@echo off
:loop
echo [%time%] Checking TikTok Live status...

REM Run Streamlink and capture its exit code
"E:\streamlink\bin\streamlink.exe" "https://www.tiktok.com/@example/live" best --output "E:\tiktok_live_%date:~-4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%.ts"

REM Show the exit code (1 = not live, 0 = success)
echo [%time%] Streamlink exited with code %errorlevel%

REM Wait 5 minutes (300 seconds)
echo [%time%] Waiting 5 minutes before checking again...
timeout /t 3 /nobreak

goto loop
Output is .ts file that i convert to mp4 with ffmpeg. If it doesnt work for you it's possible it's an 18+ stream, not sure how to pull cookies for that
 
You're right, the streams I tested must have been 18+. Didn't occur to me to check that.
For cookies, I am simply using --http-cookie "sessionid=[value]", sessionid is the only cookie that seems to be required.
 
After initial tests, it seemed to be working with random accounts I took from the LIVE pages.
Specifically tested with the outdoors category as those were generally flagged as 18+ more often.
Worked like a charm. First I run a test command to get the response, if cookies were required to download I used them, if not I didn't obviously. In theory it should also work for sub-only lives, but that's a little more difficult to test for obvious reasons.

After that I performed a real test overnight, and voila!
Command for regular lives: streamlink --http-header "User-Agent=$UserAgent" $LiveLink origin,best --output $OutputFile
Command for 18+ lives: streamlink --http-header "User-Agent=$OtherUserAgent" --http-cookie "sessionid=$RecorderCookies" $LiveLink origin,best --output $OutputFile
Thank you jolennon for pointing me towards streamlink, likely would have bashed my head against the wall with yt-dlp if I hadn't tried it.
 
Since this morning they've been very hit and miss, but mostly miss. The APIs are responding as if the videos don't exist (which they obviously do). There seems to be no pattern, at least none that I can see. Videos from users in the same country are having mixed results. Re-trying later has no effect.
Hopefully it's temporary, as it often is.
 
i always find that urlebird works very well - https://urlebird.com/
however i mainly use a paid app called videoproc. This is an inexpensive program that downloads from many sites and it also has many other useful tools like upscaling videos, converting, compressing, screen recording edditing and merging videos etc etc - https://www.videoproc.com/
 
SD downloading still seems fine, but source downloading continues to be an issue.
I've also started noticing multiple other random issues; stories existing but not loading or appearing in the feed, yt-dlp returning errors I've not seen before (possibly due to the nightly fix that was just implemented), etc...
Someone mentioned that these bugs and things breaking is possibly due to the US sale having been finalized - datacenters, CDNs and whatnot are now either transferring ownership or being moved to a new host.
It looks like things will continue to be messy for a while now, but hopefully these issues will just be temporary. It's hard to say though, could be something worse, like ramping up their bot mitigation. Wouldn't be the first time, nor the last. :peepoWew:
 
So I usually browse on my phone and a few years ago I found this iPhone shortcut that works well downloading high quality from tikwm. I dont know much about configuring shortcuts myself but the only thing I would like different is that it automatically separates each user by folder/userID in case they change username.
Would appreciate if someone found an android equivalent for backup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/qla1f8/best_tiktok_hd_downloader/
https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/175l5s2/ultimate_universal_harshtik_the_best_just_got/?share_id=jFKJgsXSKJnzTv4xG8oR-&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
(Latest)https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/...utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1
 
if you use permaloop.io then you wont get rate limited for saving entire tiktok accounts. best tiktok downloader and tiktok archive ive used so far.
 
I'm sorry if it's the 1000th time you've asked but I have these doubts:

1. How download an entire tiktok account? Is possible? (300 vids o more) HD source?

2. How download a live photo? This thing that shows a video for a few seconds and then an image remains. When I go through websites to download they only give me the final image.

3. How download an entire Instagram account?
 
What’s the general consensus on best TT live recorder/archive downloaded these days?

Originally had rewatch but that’s massively expensive. Been using tikrec which uses TG as an interface. Free plan you can auto record 2 and manually record 1.

Their paid are 3.99 and 5.99 per month for 25 and 100 auto records respectively and 10 and 25 manual recordings manually. You can’t expect people also browse their website and get any archived lives others have recorded. So far, this has been working for me and is relatively cheap. Just wondering everyone else’s opinions?
 
I use the Turbo Downloader extension for Instagram, gives an option on any profile excluding private ones to download everything from it.

 
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