Scraping TikTok's Mobile API
- Technical guide · 24 endpoints · Measured TikTok's Android app talks to a private HTTP+JSON API that is faster than the web endpoints and returns considerably more.
- This is a technical guide to reaching it: how devices are registered, how requests are signed, how the regional hosts are partitioned, and how the TLS handshake is fingerprinted.
- A system built on it collected 3.23 billion creator profiles, 5.94 billion videos and 2.8 billion comments in three weeks.
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- Technical guide · 24 endpoints · Measured TikTok's Android app talks to a private HTTP+JSON API that is faster than the web endpoints and returns considerably more.
- This is a technical guide to reaching it: how devices are registered, how requests are signed, how the regional hosts are partitioned, and how the TLS handshake is fingerprinted.
- A system built on it collected 3.23 billion creator profiles, 5.94 billion videos and 2.8 billion comments in three weeks.
Sources: Seeksocial