Developer scrapes 5.94B TikTok videos in 3 weeks, open-sources dataset

Developer DataShack reverse-engineered TikTok's private mobile API to scrape 5.94 billion videos and 3.23 billion user profiles in about three weeks, open-sourcing the full dataset on Hugging Face along with a detailed technical guide.

2026-09-03 ~ 2026-09-04 · 2 related posts

• Dev scrapes 5.94B TikTok videos and 3.23B profiles in 3 weeks, uploads dataset to Hugging Face — DataShack · 2026-09-03
• Reversing TikTok's mobile API: 5.94B videos and 3.23B profiles scraped in 3 weeks — BLUECOW009 · 2026-09-04