How to pull data on tiktok without an api! (2021)

One of my most popular articles i’ve made was about pulling data on TikTok. I love TikTok and that platform holds a lot of value, both in a content and data perspective, so let’s pull some data from this platform!

Installation

(I copied this from my article since it’s still the same process) Now we will be installing the tiktok-scraper file from this github link, I would recommend looking through that documentation to get a good understanding of what we’re going to be doing in this little project as well as full installation instructions. Now after that we want to make sure we have Node.js installed on your PC, if you don’t have it installed or don’t know what it is please click on this link to find out how to install it. Once you have Node.js installed we want to go to our Terminal if you’re on a MacOS machine or our Command Prompt if you’re on a Windows machine and paste this specific script inside that application to install the tiktok-scraper package:

npm i -g tiktok-scraper

Now, there can be a situation where it doesn’t install properly, in this situation we would want to run it as the admin by using.

Understanding this tool

Awesome, now within this tool there is a lot to dig in, once this package installs…