New "creator" API for user post extraction - Githubissues

Russell-Newton / TikTokPy

Extract data from TikTok without needing any login information or API keys.

https://pypi.org/project/tiktokapipy/

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New "creator" API for user post extraction #62

Open antiops opened 11 months ago

antiops commented 11 months ago

There is a new API that was added that currently doesn't require any signatures to get user posts.

It was recently implemented and tested in the TTUser yt-dlp plugin (Implementation: tt_user.py) with some extra notes available in Issue 1

The bare minimum parameters are:

secUid
count can be max 15
cursor with current time in milis will return the most recent posts
- Follow up cursor uses last post in the item list
- Cursor 0 returns the oldest posts
verifyFp can be anything as long as it starts with verify_
aid & type dont change

Examples:

Latest: https://www.tiktok.com/api/creator/item_list/?aid=1988&type=1&count=15&cursor=1689909282235&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAys5jIEEWJXF-bCt11wTP363Xvnma4SAex4cTxY-EDrUe2CPXUr1rh-tZtqa5Src&verifyFp=verify

Next Page: https://www.tiktok.com/api/creator/item_list/?aid=1988&type=1&count=15&cursor=1677186594000&secUid=MS4wLjABAAAAys5jIEEWJXF-bCt11wTP363Xvnma4SAex4cTxY-EDrUe2CPXUr1rh-tZtqa5Src&verifyFp=verify

Russell-Newton commented 11 months ago

TikTokPy currently uses the /post/item_list/ endpoint, which seems to be incredibly similar to this endpoint, just with the extra need for an X-Bogus parameter (it also lets me grab 30 at a time). I'll keep an eye out to see if the endpoint I'm currently using stops working, but at the moment I'm not sure it's worth switching over.