Updated the mega link with anon's latest updates.
Notably :
- can now be given your cookies to download stories with "-st sid_tt_cookie" or "--stories sid_tt_cookie"
Note : it's possible that only the cookies of North American accounts work. I personally couldn't get it to work with my European account's cookies.
- can now add the account's username to the video filenames with "-au" or "--add_username"
- when using a user ID or a text file with user IDs in the command line, can now download to a folder named as the current username with "--as_user"
- can use an alternative API (RapiAPI) for when tikwm is down with "-twm YOUR-API-KEY" or "--tikwm YOUR-API-KEY"
- other improvements and bug fixes
Does anyone know a way to download stories from a private account?
I know how to download videos (though not in high quality), but don't know how to with stories, since you can't even view them on PC (Windows/Chrome if that matters).
there's extensions for it, just search on the mozilla addon store
you can verify that it's working by going to Am I Unique? first parameter it prints is your detected UA and ofc tiktok should load on mobile view
btw, the ttuser plugin has been deprecated since the latest yt-dlp (2024.05.27) has fixed the user scraper. but yt-dlp still doesn't support ripping image posts though, so still not a great solution for people who need those.
Could you share which user agent you are using for this ?
I have an extension to spoof user agent, but when I set it to a mobile user agent and try to open a story with "?_r=1" at the end of the url, I get the "install the app for the full experience" message that you'd get if you went on tiktok on a mobile internet browser instead of the app.
- In the extension, I apply this user agent : Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
- Like johndoe said, add ?_r=1 to the url, then refresh.
- You can watch the story on browser, and download it using this extension :
For those using Linux, Termux on Android (as I do in this case), Windows Subsystem for Linux, Cygwin on Windows, or whatever Choose one of these two methods to download all the TikTok content from multiple users at once in source quality via TikWM. Don't forget to create a TikTok folder, and within that folder, a Users.txt file with direct links to your favourite TikTok profiles. Personally, on Android, I have the TikTok folder in the Downloads folder (the full path is: /storage/emulated/0/Download). In the spoilers below, replace the "/storage/emulated/0/Download" part with whatever path suits you.
Note that you'll need to extract the cookies from the web browser you used to sign in to TikTok. For Android, there are extensions for Mozilla Firefox that will do this. The cookies will give you access to content that may have been flagged as NSFW on TikTok. Provided, of course, that your account is over the age of 18.
to check it out. Below is a list of packages I found useful or needed to install (or just installed for the hell of it :D), in this particular order, while trying to figure out Termux. If pip install maturin crashes or fails, use CARGO_BUILD_TARGET="$(rustc -Vv | grep "host" | awk '{print $2}')" pip install maturin.
