More videos

[Nagapetyan]

Why do we have 15(30) videos limit. What should I do to download more videos?

[dfreelon]

Hi, the short answer is that late last year, TikTok shut down the endpoint that gave programmatic access to video feeds (e.g. from a specific user or search term). Longer answer here: https://github.com/dfreelon/pyktok/issues/6

[dfreelon]

One kinda hacky way to get more videos would be to:

• Extend a video page vertically (either manually by scrolling down or programmatically with something like Selenium) so that many videos are visible.
• Download this page and use BeautifulSoup to extract the video URLs.
• Pipe those URLs to pyktok

If anyone else has any better ideas, I'm all ears.

[dfreelon]

Other ideas:

• If you have a list of users or hashtags, you can download up to 30 (users) or 15 (hashtags) for each one
• If you set up pyktok to trigger automatically using something like cron, you could have it download whatever appears on the page periodically (say, once every 12 or 24 hours)--this will probably work better with busy hashtag pages than with individual users who post once a day or less