# TikTok-DL

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A simple tiktok video downloader written in go

## Basic usage
Download the executable from `https://github.com/pikami/tiktok-dl/releases`\
You can download all videos from user by running `./tiktok-dl [Options] TIKTOK_USERNAME`\
You can download single video by running `./tiktok-dl [Options] VIDEO_URL`\
You can download all videos by music by running `./tiktok-dl [Options] MUSIC_URL`\
You can download items listed in a text file by running `./tiktok-dl [OPTIONS] -batch-file path/to/items.txt`

## Build instructions
Clone this repository and run `go build` to build the executable.

## Available options
* `-debug` - enables debug mode
* `-output some_directory` - Output path (default "./downloads")
* `-metadata` - Write video metadata to a .json file
* `-batch-file` - File containing URLs/Usernames to download, one value per line. Lines starting with '#', are considered as comments and ignored.

## Acknowledgments
This software uses the **chromedp** for web scraping, it can be found here: https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp \
For releases the JS code is minified by using **terser** toolkit, it can be found here: https://github.com/terser/terser