CristianHG2
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3 years ago Currently developing a project that urgently needs this. I've been trying to look for ways of implementing this and these are some of my small findings:
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The most efficient way of retrieving the chat feed will most likely be via TikTok's live web interface, where it's easiest to debug and profile requests and function calls.
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The feed itself works through a very basic fetch loop powered by a
setTimeout, I didn't see any type of progressive download or websocket connection to actually retrieve messages:
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Message payloads seem to come mixed in with actual stream data as well, and I can't seem to figure out the type of encoding the response body has.
My level of reverse engineering experience is relatively surface-level when it comes to systems like this, but maybe we can begin a discussion here and contribute our findings. I've even thought of using software like Pupeeter to programmatically read and post to the chat using a Chromium instance, the problem there becomes the captcha that takes place during login.
szdc
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have seen a service called Loola that allows you to read comments sent to your live broadcast from a web interface. I wish this were possible through this api.
Describe the solution you'd like A webhook, ajax url, or function that can be used as a callback for when new comments are put on a live broadcast