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Re: Show HN: download all your [Liked] videos from TikTok for safekeeping

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Post by ZYinMD »

nullandvoid wrote: post #9
mateo1 wrote: post #5

Now the hard part is to find something on tiktok worth downloading.

IWhen a friend has shared a video, they try to get you to sign up with this horrible collection of "similar reccomended" content (90% sexually suggestive thumbnails other 10% really dumb clickbait) every time. If for that reason alone I will never join and have my brain rotted by their algorithms.

Everybody's tiktok is different, the algorithm knows you well, and always gives you what you like. If you look at other people's tiktok, it's always very dumb, but when you open your own, it's always good, because you never hate your own taste.

Re: Show HN: download all your [Liked] videos from TikTok for safekeeping

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Post by cardiffspaceman »

mateo1 wrote: post #5

Now the hard part is to find something on tiktok worth downloading.

I used to download stuff, back in the day, when it was actually a commitment due to the lack of high speed last-mile and lack of Torrent. Eventually, the experience of obtaining things interactively made it sane to only download things from academic sites, which tend to serve the public "not as well as you'd hope", except ACM.

But the fact is that as far as TikTok goes, saving to the PC would be a (poor) way of overcoming the lack (as far as I can tell) of ways to organize what one encounters in such a way that one could practically find one's way to it in the future.

Re: Show HN: download all your [Liked] videos from TikTok for safekeeping

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Post by krnlpnc »

ZYinMD wrote: post #2

By the way (OP here), videos disappear from TikTok everyday for various reasons, and this tool monitors and labels all disappeared videos, as long as you have downloaded them first. My numbers show they typically disappear at a rate of ~3% per month (which is one major reason why I built this tool).

I’m not sure if these are included in the 3% figure but I’ve also recently been encountering videos which still exist but have had their audio force muted weeks after uploading for undisclosed reasons.

Re: Show HN: download all your [Liked] videos from TikTok for safekeeping

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Post by MMS21 »

randomhodler84 wrote: post #7
krnlpnc wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a worn out joke :) The platform is essentially short form youtube, there’s content covering virtually every interest/topic.

Virtually every cringe. It’s a trash fire. Why anyone would want to preserve these is beyond my understanding.

Data hoarding is a mental illness
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