Simon Willison on Nostr: Wrote up a gnarly sequence of hacks for downloading every video in a TikTok account, ...
Wrote up a gnarly sequence of hacks for downloading every video in a TikTok account, just in case anyone needs such a thing in the next ~24 hours
uv, yt-dlp, JS in the Firefox DevTools and optionally throws in mlx-whisper for generating transcripts too
https://til.simonwillison.net/tiktok/download-all-videosPublished at
2025-01-19 01:12:33Event JSON
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