Some more info regarding usernames, account ID, SecUid, and how to "track" accounts that change their usernames.
If an account changes its username and you're trying to find what the new username is, there are a few methods :
- Search for the old account name in the tiktok search bar. If the account was tagged in someone's else tok or if one of its toks was dueted or stitched, they will show up in the results. You can click the hyperlink in the description and it will actually send you to the new account name.
- If you have any video ID of that account, you can type https://www.tiktok.com/@test/video/[videoID]
in your url bar to be sent directly to that video. What you put as the username doesn't matter. For exemple, https://www.tiktok.com/@test/video/7277613642206481706
will send me to mikahhlynn's account, even if I put "test" as the username. The video must be still up though.
- ID and SecUid. Each tiktok account has an ID and SecUid. These IDs do not change, even if the user changes the account name. In your url bar, typing
https://www.tiktok.com/@[ID or SecUid]
will always send you to that account, regardless of its username. If the ID doesn't point to an account, that means the account associated with that ID was deleted/banned/deactivated.
To easily get the ID / SecUid of an account or a list of accounts :
- You can see the ID and SecUid of an account on your browser easily simply by installing the awemer browser extension linked earlier in the thread.
- You can use the "new awemer" python script linked earlier in the thread to create a list of ID and SecUid automatically by running the command python awemer.py -u profiles.txt -i
. Just copy/paste what's in the CMD to a text file to keep that list.
- You can go on tik.fail, search for the old username of an account, open one of its archived toks, and if the tok is recent enough, if you click the tiktok logo next to the username under the video, it will send you to that account using SecUid. This is especially useful if you didn't save the ID/SecUid beforehand. I'm not sure when exactly tik.fail started using SecUid over usernames, but old archived toks won't have that feature.
One last related note, is that tiktok recycles usernames pretty fast after an account is renamed or deleted. There are more and more catfishes and scammers taking the exact same account name of old tiktok "stars" that deleted their accounts. Using account IDs or video IDs is the foolproof way to immediately tell if you're looking at the real account or not.