4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok

A technical guide details how to access TikTok's private Android API to scrape data at scale, documenting 24 endpoints and demonstrating how a system collected 3.23 billion creator profiles, 5.94 billion videos, and 2.8 billion comments in three weeks. The author uploaded 4.5 billion videos with metadata to Hugging Face, providing researchers access to public TikTok data including creator profiles, video statistics, comments, sounds, and hashtags through direct API calls rather than slower web scraping methods. The scraping operates at the anonymous device level without account login, making private or account-gated content inaccessible.