No videos downloaded

[bandicootdancing]

The chrome browser opens but it appears the scraper stops before the videos have time to load on the page. With the --show-browser option the blue and red loading indicator on the site appears but then the page closes. The result is no videos downloaded.

Edit: After trying the driver for Firefox the browser stayed open but I noticed the videos never load on the page. The browser stays open but the scraper exits in the console.

[joeyism]

Does it throw an error of some sort? Or use the --delay so it waits longer for the video to load

[bandicootdancing]

No specific error. Adding delay doesn't help. I was able to use the firefox driver to open the browser the other day but can't today. When Firefox worked the page stayed open but after several minutes videos hadn't loaded.

This is what I'm seeing.

[1228/140939.330:INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "version:0.1.7", source: https://s16.tiktokcdn.com/tiktok/falcon/_next/static/chunks/commons.bdc941a63fea534028a1.js (1)
Getting all videos...
Preparing to download
Downloading videos to ./[redacted]: 0it [00:00, ?it/s]```

[joeyism]

I'm having a hard time reproducing this error. If the video doesn't load on Firefox, then it's a browser issue which is beyond this project. If there's a profile name that you're willing to share AND it doesn't work, I can try to reproduce your error.

[bandicootdancing]

Doesn't matter which profile it is. 0 Videos always downloaded. Thanks, I'll look for something else.

[joeyism]

I see it now too. I think it may be tiktok blocking scrapers. I'll find a way around it

[mikeyside1992]

Same issue for me. Also it doesn't appear to honour the delay modifier.
tiktok-scraper XXXX --driver "C:\Users\james\Desktop\chromedriver" --location "C:\Users\Mikey\Desktop\tt" --delay 25 --show-browser

[osfa]

+1