Yo, I want to bring attention back to the browser extension Zogbot9001 shared in this this thread two weeks ago.
I had been using this extension since around february, and it's even much more powerful than what Zogbot9001 described.
First, it does get every tiktok from the account you download. The reason you might see a difference between the number at the top and the number of files downloaded is that some toks were deleted from the feed, either by the user or by tiktok ; but if you were to count every tok in the feed (or press Ctrl+Alt+A after scrolling to the bottom), you'd see it really did get everything.
But more importantly, the three most impressive features would be :
1) It can automatically create a new folder for each new account by ticking "Separate folder for downloading profiles" in the extension options, you don't need to set it up manually every time. It also lets you customize the folder name as well as the tiktoks filenames, using a list of pre-set parameters, such as username/user ID/user nickname for folders and video ID/description/date, etc. for video filenames. Its sorting and filenaming capabilities are pretty much perfect. Oh, and also, it gets tiktoks in the highest resolution possible (up to 1080p).
2) It has a "notifier" that downloads every new tiktok from every account you're subscribed to (or a filtered list of accounts that you can set up), completely automatically. That's right. You can let your browser run during the day and this extension will automatically download new tiktoks posted by all of your favorite accounts, just a minute after they're posted (sometimes even getting "spicy" tiktoks that were deleted by tiktok or by the user in the next minutes after posting it). And when you turn off your browser/computer and boot it back up hours or days later, no problem ! The extension will carry on where it stopped and download all of the vids that were posted during the night, weekend, etc.
3) It can download stories and image posts. It can even download them automatically with the notifier.
Personally, I follow hundreds of tiktok accounts. There is no way I could stay up to date with all of them without this browser extension, especially since tiktok's subscription feed doesn't show posts in chronological order (hate when social medias do that).
I could have shared this extension a while ago on this thread, but didn't for a couple reasons. First, the person who initially shared it with me asked me not to share it. Second, the imageboard where the dev of this extension was active has... some weird threads and users. And by weird I mean I feel like I might possibly be breaking the law if I share a link to the site. Probably not since there isn't any content technically illegal per US laws, but it's close.
Anyway, the reasons I'm sharing it now are : 1) while the manual profile scraper of the extension still works, the notifier is broken and the dev doesn't seem to be active anymore (and I really need help fixing it, please). 2) Now that Zogbot9001 already shared it I feel more confortable sharing it too.
So, the thread that this extension was seemingly initially posted in, is this one :
Warning and disclaimer : Stay on the awemer/extension thread. Do not browse the rest of the board. I did not make or do not condone anything on this site.
You'll see at the top of the thread that there is a javascript program called awemer, that was being shared and updated on 4chan and other imageboards since around 2019, that the extension is based on. Awemer has even more features, like being able to scan your folder and compare it to a profile scrape to find exactly which toks are missing. Problem is, the awemer program doesn't have a user interface like the browser extension and I have no fucking clue how to use it. There is a mega link in the thread with the two latest versions of the extension, last one being from may 10th (same thing that Zogbot shared in his post).
Now, what I really wanted to get to with this post, is that the notifier I talked about stopped working on september 19th (11 days ago). I posted the error log in the linked thread. What seems to be the problem is that the API the extension was using, tikwm, was updated that day, and the extension needs to be updated to match that change. That sounds like a really simple problem to fix, so simple that I started learning javescript to try and do it myself, but I quickly realized it would actually take me months to be able to get there.
To conclude, if anyone in this thread knows javascript, this extension/program is defintely the way to go. Forget any other program you've been using so far to download from tiktok because this one is the best, but it just needs a little fix. If anyone could find a fix for the notifier, it would be awesome. Alternatively, if anyone could post a tutorial on how to use the awemer javascript program to mimic what the extension did, it would be equally awesome.
I'll be trying to learn and find a fix on my own in the meantime but I can't guarantee anything. I never learned how to code so I'm learning from scratch for this.
I had been using this extension since around february, and it's even much more powerful than what Zogbot9001 described.
First, it does get every tiktok from the account you download. The reason you might see a difference between the number at the top and the number of files downloaded is that some toks were deleted from the feed, either by the user or by tiktok ; but if you were to count every tok in the feed (or press Ctrl+Alt+A after scrolling to the bottom), you'd see it really did get everything.
But more importantly, the three most impressive features would be :
1) It can automatically create a new folder for each new account by ticking "Separate folder for downloading profiles" in the extension options, you don't need to set it up manually every time. It also lets you customize the folder name as well as the tiktoks filenames, using a list of pre-set parameters, such as username/user ID/user nickname for folders and video ID/description/date, etc. for video filenames. Its sorting and filenaming capabilities are pretty much perfect. Oh, and also, it gets tiktoks in the highest resolution possible (up to 1080p).
2) It has a "notifier" that downloads every new tiktok from every account you're subscribed to (or a filtered list of accounts that you can set up), completely automatically. That's right. You can let your browser run during the day and this extension will automatically download new tiktoks posted by all of your favorite accounts, just a minute after they're posted (sometimes even getting "spicy" tiktoks that were deleted by tiktok or by the user in the next minutes after posting it). And when you turn off your browser/computer and boot it back up hours or days later, no problem ! The extension will carry on where it stopped and download all of the vids that were posted during the night, weekend, etc.
3) It can download stories and image posts. It can even download them automatically with the notifier.
Personally, I follow hundreds of tiktok accounts. There is no way I could stay up to date with all of them without this browser extension, especially since tiktok's subscription feed doesn't show posts in chronological order (hate when social medias do that).
I could have shared this extension a while ago on this thread, but didn't for a couple reasons. First, the person who initially shared it with me asked me not to share it. Second, the imageboard where the dev of this extension was active has... some weird threads and users. And by weird I mean I feel like I might possibly be breaking the law if I share a link to the site. Probably not since there isn't any content technically illegal per US laws, but it's close.
Anyway, the reasons I'm sharing it now are : 1) while the manual profile scraper of the extension still works, the notifier is broken and the dev doesn't seem to be active anymore (and I really need help fixing it, please). 2) Now that Zogbot9001 already shared it I feel more confortable sharing it too.
So, the thread that this extension was seemingly initially posted in, is this one :
Warning and disclaimer : Stay on the awemer/extension thread. Do not browse the rest of the board. I did not make or do not condone anything on this site.
You'll see at the top of the thread that there is a javascript program called awemer, that was being shared and updated on 4chan and other imageboards since around 2019, that the extension is based on. Awemer has even more features, like being able to scan your folder and compare it to a profile scrape to find exactly which toks are missing. Problem is, the awemer program doesn't have a user interface like the browser extension and I have no fucking clue how to use it. There is a mega link in the thread with the two latest versions of the extension, last one being from may 10th (same thing that Zogbot shared in his post).
Now, what I really wanted to get to with this post, is that the notifier I talked about stopped working on september 19th (11 days ago). I posted the error log in the linked thread. What seems to be the problem is that the API the extension was using, tikwm, was updated that day, and the extension needs to be updated to match that change. That sounds like a really simple problem to fix, so simple that I started learning javescript to try and do it myself, but I quickly realized it would actually take me months to be able to get there.
To conclude, if anyone in this thread knows javascript, this extension/program is defintely the way to go. Forget any other program you've been using so far to download from tiktok because this one is the best, but it just needs a little fix. If anyone could find a fix for the notifier, it would be awesome. Alternatively, if anyone could post a tutorial on how to use the awemer javascript program to mimic what the extension did, it would be equally awesome.
I'll be trying to learn and find a fix on my own in the meantime but I can't guarantee anything. I never learned how to code so I'm learning from scratch for this.
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