Where to start?

[szdc]

Where to start?

[szdc]

Hey, you'll want to take a look at the listPosts() method of this API, which will list the posts/videos on your profile.

Internally, this makes a call to https://api2.musical.ly/aweme/v1/aweme/post/ with some query string parameters. The query string parameters are documented in the ListPostsRequest interface, which extends a couple of common interfaces for pagination.

Specifically, the main query string parameters for this endpoint are:

• user_id - your user id
• count - how many results to return
• max_cursor - the timestamp offset from which to list posts from.

The response data is documented in the ListPostsResponse interface, which again extends some common interfaces. The relevant keys are:

• aweme_list - an array of posts
• max_cursor - the timestamp that you should use in your next request to retrieve the next N results

Each post contains a video key, which points to an object that has a download_addr key that contains the URL you should use to download the video.

You raise a good point - I should see if there is a library to generate some documentation that is more generally accessible.

[Zachary24]

Sorry, I'm still a little confused... Would i use python? Is the user_id the username or an actual id? And some things im a little confused about are below..

const as = 'anti-spam parameter 1';
const cp = 'anti-spam parameter 2'
const mas = 'anti-spam parameter 3';

device_id: '<device_id>',
fp: '<device_fingerprint>',
iid: '<install_id>',
openudid: '<device_open_udid>',

Is there any "working" example? thanks!

[szdc]

Each user is assigned a unique numeric identifier, which is their user_id. It cannot be changed and is separate from the user's username (which can be changed). The easiest way to get a user's id is to search for the user - the response data contains a list of users, and each user has a uid field containing their user id.

I don't provide a working example for generating the anti-spam parameters in this library because that would defeat their purpose. I would take a look at the discussion in #9 for some hints about how you could generate them yourself.

device_id, fp, iid and openudid are all identifiers relating to your device, which you could get by intercepting traffic on your Android phone using mitmproxy or similar.

[ioio101]

Each user is assigned a unique numeric identifier, which is their user_id. It cannot be changed and is separate from the user's username (which can be changed). The easiest way to get a user's id is to search for the user - the response data contains a list of users, and each user has a uid field containing their user id.

I don't provide a working example for generating the anti-spam parameters in this library because that would defeat their purpose. I would take a look at the discussion in #9 for some hints about how you could generate them yourself.

device_id, fp, iid and openudid are all identifiers relating to your device, which you could get by intercepting traffic on your Android phone using mitmproxy or similar.

What about the timestamps?

[szdc]

@ioio101 you generate the timestamp yourself - it is simply the current time when you are making the call.

[ioio101]

@ioio101 you generate the timestamp yourself - it is simply the current time when you are making the call.

Are the rest of the device identifiers static? Anything else besides timestamp/anti spam parameters that needs dynamic generation?

[szdc]

@ioio101 that's right - the other parameters are static. Note that _rticket is another timestamp (the current time in milliseconds).

[TechEmpire11]

By the way, which programming language or platforms CAn I write Tiktok api on?.. Is it ionic or react?

[TechEmpire11]

They just placed it there with out showing which platform to run it on.. I know it javascript Es6..but how do you call the api on ionic or react?