tiktok-dl/README.md

TikTok-DL

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.
• -deadline - Sets the timout for scraper logic in seconds (used as a workaround for context deadline exceeded error) (default 1500)
• -quiet - Supress output
• -json - Returns whole data, that was scraped from TikTok, in json
• -limit - Sets the max count of video that will be downloaded (default infinity)

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