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4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
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#12Is this even useful in any way?
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#13Can any brave soul wade through the LLM prose to provide a human-readable summary?
I cannot verify whether it is technically correct, but it's about how to defeat Tiktok's bot filters to scrape it.
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#14That data does not belong to the public. Why do you think it is OK to steal from TikTok?
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#15> Everything described here is a private Go repository. One-time payment, permanent access, complete source.
> $699 one time · lifetime access
Not open-source apparently.
And I cant find the reddit post but I think I read that videos/assets are not actually pre-downloaded, they have to be requested through Tiktok API using the provided code. So if Tiktok patches, the code will need updates too.
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#16Absolutely no consideration for the people who, when posting things to Tiktok, would prefer for them not to get scraped.
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#17There aren't any actual videos in the dataset though.
The first immediate smell is that if you have 4.5B rows and 289GB in data, you have ~60 bytes per row.
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#18That data does not belong to the public. Why do you think it is OK to steal from TikTok?
Is this sarcasm on AI companies?
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#19Like gazing into hell
In 2026, everything we say, see or do on the internet is just another data point for some unscrupulous bastard to seek profit from.
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#20Can any brave soul wade through the LLM prose to provide a human-readable summary?
Man, I could use $699. If this gets even a single sale, then maybe I need to try having less decency...
(I guess that is sort of a roundabout summary...)