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  "title": "I scraped 5.94 billion TikTok videos and 3.23 billion profiles in 3 weeks. Uploaded full dataset to Hugging Face for free. Step by step tutorial and code below. [P]",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1w5h9se/i_scraped_594_billion_tiktok_videos_and_323/",
  "external_url": null,
  "upload_date": "20260902",
  "published_at": "2026-09-02T17:38:17+00:00",
  "transcript": "Just uploaded the full 5.94 billion TikTok video dataset to Hugging Face. It’s fully open source:  \n[https://huggingface.co/datasets/kuben-developer/tiktok-videos-4b](https://huggingface.co/datasets/kuben-developer/tiktok-videos-4b)\n\nThis dataset was collected using a TikTok mobile app reverse-engineering method I developed a few years ago. The method allowed me to extract billions of videos, profiles, comments and replies, hashtags, sounds, and more.\n\nFull write-up and code here:  \n[https://tiktok-api.seeksocial.io](https://tiktok-api.seeksocial.io/)\n\nDisclaimer: The TikTok app exposes 24 endpoints that can be accessed without a TikTok account, so the data itself is publicly accessible. But accessing it this way is probably still against TikTok’s ToS. Also, the full code is not free, I charge a small fee for access to it.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[306 upvotes] I hope both sides of your pillow are always cold.\n\n[76 upvotes] Yeah I will download it right now because Idk how long until the dataset will be removed \n\n[41 upvotes] Charging for tiktok data seems like it should be illegal...",
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