Changes on tiktok side breaks user posts retreival (new signature?)

[vdemay]

Get user videos does not work anymore probably due to a change on tiktok tt-parameter generation

How to reproduce:
1/ go to https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/@willsmith -> working because content has been captured while getting user info
2/ go to the bottom of the page and click Next -> Error

Actually I suppose the end point user/item_list needs a new signing method or new parameters to work properly.

[vdemay]

Same ticket open here : carcabot/tiktok-signature#168

[pablouser1]

Fixed thanks to carcabot/tiktok-signature#168 (comment), thanks @carcabot!

If anyone reading this is a webmaster hosting ProxiTok, remember to also upgrade tiktok-signature/SignTok!

[vdemay]

Hello,

Thanks for the update. But unfortunately, it still does not work.

I suppose the first page for willsmith account is now in cache so it display well. But if you try with another account it does not work.

Tiktok puts probably a short expiration time on one of the parameters of the request leading the fix of @carcabot to work only for a short period of time - see carcabot/tiktok-signature#168

This can also be useful - same issue - davidteather/TikTok-Api#974

Thanks for your work on this

[pablouser1]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out and implement it when I have time.

I suppose the first page for willsmith account is now in cache so it display well. But if you try with another account it does not work.

The first page is scraped from the html in order to save a request to the API, that's why the first page always works correctly.

[pablouser1]

Looks like changing the User Agent of the scraper to a smartphone (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; SAMSUNG SM-G973U) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/14.2 Chrome/87.0.4280.141 Mobile Safari/537.36 is currently in use) helps.

Why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I really don't know. I don't know if this will work with many requets, we'll see.

[NoPlagiarism]

I guess, it's time to create /health endpoint? Or idk.

[LukeLR]

In #126 I exposed the user_agent parameter of the TikScraper API as an environment variable. However, setting the value recommended by @pablouser1 there does not fix the 503 Error when clicking next on a user's page. Am I doing something wrong, or does this approach no longer work?

[desbest]

Is there an update on this?

[SuperSonicHub1]

This is still a problem for me, both with ProxiTok and using TikScraper directly in a project for work. It seems errors with requesting stuff with a non-zero cursor can be overcome by reloading the page multiple times, albeit rarely.

[Sainttttttttttt]

I cant use it