How to fix TikTok blocks this request displaying a Captcha

[Noraluk]

TikTok blocks this request displaying a Captcha

ERROR:root:Tiktok wants to display a catcha. Response is:

{"code":"10000","from":"","type":"verify","version":"","region":"va","subtype":"slide","detail":"fYVaOXdGHrwkYZYogUmYdBY8-FJlzSK13HPPFk4iPsmeRax8twpZOScClv9WuKaaV1CNaF6wJ7qKHfg9BoeJkiXwJZGdeM8NPN3hrQmhf0q5axln1rDo1POPgnK931e-5QMRPPN4whuZe1inHPx-JrPPejeXLVXzYz1sRjR5LUMfwNfZzU9-waptDR1A6gaFzDBrWj73by6FC2xDT-EPS-iBEoSes7zLU-eEnXfEIdj22InYwoGGD-qkHAifa7VE6JLSDPwRcAAusKzYmZUeCiGnLYyBTZidNYGerH","verify_event":"","fp":"verify_kinzszck_diuaRMsk_SeQi_4nHI_AEOX_WnWV8BwhwBK","scene":""}

ERROR:root:{'tt_webid': '0903287986343365897', 'tt_webid_v2': '0903287986343365897', 'tt_csrf_token': 'qVRgzrYYbdQiNNUE'}

Tip: Consider using a proxy or a custom_verifyFp as method parameters

[jhaskinsPhD]

I've also been running into this problem. I solved it (briefly) by logging into TikTok on my browser (Chrome) going to Cookies and finding the variable s_v_web_id, copy and pasting that into the custom_verifyFp='longcookiename'. It worked for 3-4 times as I debugged my code then it started popping this error again. Apparently this Cookie updates each time you browse and TikTok was fast enough at catching on that I was a bot after a few uses of the workaround.... This solution no longer works for me (even with an updated s_v_web_id cookie variable).

Edit to add: I also already downloaded the update (today) from last week's issue citing this.

[Incher25]

Have the same issue with api v3.8.6 even using custom_verifyFp parameter.

[reccardt]

I'm wondering if it recognizes the browser after a while. It worked for me for days using Chrome Incognito mode, loading tiktok.com but not signing in, loading the captcha page in another tab, solving it and getting the cookie from developer tools. I couldn't get it to work today. I tried a different machine at a different IP address and the same procedure did work. I'll go back to the first machine tomorrow or the next day to see if it recovers.

[davidteather]

Try the following api = TikTokApi(use_api_endpoints=True) it uses TikTok's test endpoints which seem to have less security. Their entire desktop site on the trending page is having issues right now.

[Incher25]

Try the following api = TikTokApi(use_api_endpoints=True) it uses TikTok's test endpoints which seem to have less security. Their entire desktop site on the trending page is having issues right now.

I tried to do this but get the following error:

ERROR:root:TikTok response: { statusCode: -1, itemInfo: {} } ERROR:root:Converting response to JSON failed ERROR:root:Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 5 (char 6) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/TikTokApi/tiktok.py", line 196, in getData json = r.json() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 892, in json self.content.decode(encoding), **kwargs File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/init.py", line 348, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx) json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 5 (char 6)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/www/adchek/deployer_build/releases/423/app/../python/scripts/TikTok/get_tiktok_by_id.py", line 13, in tiktok = json.dumps(api.getTikTokById(id=tiktokId)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/TikTokApi/tiktok.py", line 999, in getTikTokById return self.getData(url=api_url, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/TikTokApi/tiktok.py", line 217, in getData raise JSONDecodeFailure() from e TikTokApi.exceptions.JSONDecodeFailure: TikTok sent invalid JSON back

[davidteather]

@Incher25 are you using selenium?

[Incher25]

@davidteather no, but if I use selenium I get "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'chromedriver': 'chromedriver'" error

[noraluk-scg]

Although I use api = TikTokApi(use_api_endpoints=True), I get the captcha block again

[Incher25]

Now I run "api = TikTokApi.get_instance(use_api_endpoints=True)" (without my custom_verifyFp and via playwright) and it seems getTikTokById() works fine for now. Maybe I should get new custom_verifyFp from browser.

[reccardt]

@davidteather Thanks for all the great work you do. Did you mean use_test_endpoints=True instead of use_api_endpoints=True? I've been using https://t.tiktok.com/ as the BASE_URL all along. The problem I had yesterday seems to be gone; even my problem machine is able to call trending successfully. Maybe I just have to be more persistent.

[davidteather]

Yeah I meant use_test_endpoints sorry about that. I'd also advise everyone who is having issues with this API to start using a proxy & make sure your IP isn't banned from TikTok because I know some people who got their residential IP banned from TikTok

[davidteather]

You definitely should be able to get the use_test_endpoints=True to request a lot of data using something like luminati.io as a proxy

[davidteather]

There's also a YouTube video in the readme that explains how to get a custom_verifyFp and another workaround

[jrdutra]

Hey, use_test_endpoints=True worked for me by this moment...

[sanghavp]

I have tried to follow all the solutions mentioned above but when I do it sometimes it succeeds sometimes it fails. while my source code has not changed.

[wrogers3]

I have tried to follow all the solutions mentioned above but when I do it sometimes it succeeds sometimes it fails. while my source code has not changed.

same here, what would be the culprit then?

[StathisKap]

I know there is a chrome extension called nopeCha that solves capchas for you. It's paid software but maybe there is an open source alternative that could be used to just solved the tiktok capchas?