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4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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Re: 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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Can 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...)

Would you say that this is immoral? Since it’s data that’s public anyways, I don’t see why putting it in a table and selling it is a bad thing.

Re: 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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> 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.

I think the post is essentially a decent technical-explainer (value adding and interesting) in exchange for effectively a little product placement (selling either just the code or code already running on a server at additional cost)

But I think this is the 289GB data (free): https://huggingface.co/datasets/kuben-developer/tiktok-video...

Re: 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...)

Would you say that this is immoral? Since it’s data that’s public anyways, I don’t see why putting it in a table and selling it is a bad thing.

No, I don't care at all, but I recognize that my morals might be lower than others here. To me it's just public data...whatever.

My criticism was basically - this is trying to sell an AI slop project for $699 a pop - I could get this out of a few Claude Code sessions if I had the storage and network bandwidth to run such a scraper. The value proposition is questionable when the writing shows that the entire project was AI generated, and clearly Claude understands the way the TikTok Android app internal API works quite well...

Re: 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...)

Would you say that this is immoral? Since it’s data that’s public anyways, I don’t see why putting it in a table and selling it is a bad thing.

What is "public" data? It admits to violating the ToS.

Re: 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you say that this is immoral? Since it’s data that’s public anyways, I don’t see why putting it in a table and selling it is a bad thing.

What is "public" data? It admits to violating the ToS.

Something posted with the understanding that it could potentially be viewed by anyone on the Internet with minimal/no restriction.

ToS are just what you follow if you don't want to get banned off of the site. If you don't care about that, then you can go hog wild, though you're being a bit of a jerk/not playing nice obviously.

Re: 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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post #23

> Three things to notice, because each one bites later: Very LLMish language!

It's that mix of dense, impressive sounding jargon, but even scanning across it raises glaring problems. Like, if you have 4.5 billion videos on HF, and it's 289GB, it's about 60 bytes per video. Checking the column fields as well, there doesn't seem to be any video files*.

Re: 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you say that this is immoral? Since it’s data that’s public anyways, I don’t see why putting it in a table and selling it is a bad thing.

No, I don't care at all, but I recognize that my morals might be lower than others here. To me it's just public data...whatever. My criticism was basically - this is trying to sell an AI slop project for $699 a pop - I could get this out of a few Claude Code sessions if I had the storage and network bandwidth to run such a scraper. The value proposition is questionable when the writing shows that the entire project w…

The AI giants got where they are by pushing similar limits and setting aside moral (and legal) issues to be settled later in court, so the idea seems to fit the general zeitgeist we're living in. Not really criticism, just an observation.
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