Let’s build a TikTok scraping tool with Python!

Welcome back! Let’s go ahead and develop a TikTok scraping tool using Python, now this specific tool is a little bit different than the other one’s i’ve created. First off, we’ll be running this program from our terminal / command prompt which will essentially be our front end for this program. The system of this program is this: User runs this program in their terminal > inputs a link to a TikTok users profile > The program will output the number of followers, following and total likes on their profile. If all that sounds good to you then let’s get started!

First off

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Let’s begin!

Basic introduction you could probably skip that I copied from my other article

First things first, we will need to have Python installed, read my article here to make sure you have Python and some IDE installed. Next, I wrote an article on using Selenium in Python, Selenium is a web scraping package that allows us to mimic a web browser using Python, it might be best to read that article for more of an understanding on web scraping, but it’s not a necessity, you can read that article here.

Let’s get started!

Now that we have our Python environment setup, let’s open up a blank Python script. Let’s import the Selenium package that you hopefully preinstalled from the previous paragraph (just pip install selenium). Once installed, import the following packages:

#IMPORT THESE PACKAGES
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
import pandas as pd
#OPTIONAL PACKAGE, BUY MAYBE NEEDED
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options