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There’s a wide consciousness of reward connected nan TikTok feeds these days, and nary wonder: it looks for illustration nan video activity whitethorn beryllium banned successful nan US arsenic of January 19th. TikTok creators are offering satirical goodbyes to their Chinese spies and wondering really quickly they tin download nan respective 100 — aliases 1000 — videos they personification up connected nan service.
TikTok itself apparently doesn’t for illustration nan thought of allowing its creators to bulk download their videos. You tin download — successful TXT aliases JSON format — a definite magnitude of your data, which, according to nan support page, “may spot but is not constricted to your username, watch video history, remark history, and privateness settings.” When I tried it, it did not spot my videos.
You tin too banal individual videos — nan aforesaid measurement you tin immoderate grounds — but if you’ve sewage a room of a mates of 100 aliases overmuch TikTok videos, that’s going to beryllium alternatively a job. In that case, it’s a batch amended to personification a bulk download strategy.
To find retired really to do that, I went into TikTok and waded done a group of videos offering different methods for downloading your content. I tried respective of nan methods and recovered 2 that worked comparatively painlessly: 1 is easier but not free and nan different is simply a spot analyzable but wholly free. (Both, incidentally, petition to beryllium done connected a instrumentality alternatively than a phone.)
A caveat earlier I begin: not being an existent TikTok creator, I only had 2 published TikTok videos connected my account, which I had made arsenic an investigation immoderate clip ago. As a result, it didn’t return overmuch clip for maine to download them utilizing either method. If you’re a existent TikTok creator, expect downloads and conversions to return immoderate time.
The easy way: usage Repurpose.io
Several group recommended an app called Repurpose.io. This is not a free app — it costs $35 a play aliases $349 a year. For a short time, Repurpose.io was offering downloads from TikTok to Google Drive and Dropbox but had to retreat nan relationship “due to precocious demand.” However, you still get to download 10 videos for free complete 14 days, truthful you tin effort it retired first.
Repurpose.io lets you administer your contented connected different platforms: you simply show it wherever to upload nan videos (besides TikTok, it will propulsion accusation from Instagram, YouTube, Zoom, and a number of different services) and wherever you want it to nonstop them (besides Instagram and different services, you tin prevention them to Dropbox, SoundCloud, Google Drive, and different apps). You tin schedule regular transfers, repurpose only early contented aliases each existing content, and moreover create clips (if, for example, you are sending YouTube videos to TikTok).
The Repurpose.io app is not free but does make it easy to proscription your TikTok videos to different platform.
Screenshot: Repurpose.io
When I tried it, Repurpose.io easy picked up my 2 TikTok videos and transferred them to my Google Drive successful a mates of minutes. While it should return a batch longer if you have, say, respective 100 videos, nan interface keeps you up to time connected which videos personification been transferred and really galore are left.
The paid app allows you to proscription an unlimited number of published videos to up to 5 different accounts. It could make a batch of consciousness if you are a dedicated TikTok video creator and are reasoning of moving your videos to different service.
The absorbing way: usage nan DevTools console
If you don’t mind playing a mini pinch code, there’s a free measurement to do it arsenic well. A advisor named Joanne Moxam has published a useful step-by-step YouTube video connected really to usage Chrome’s browser console to prevention each your links successful 1 fell swoop, move nan accusation to a spreadsheet, and past usage an online instrumentality to bulk download your videos.
Below, I’ve summarized nan steps that Moxam suggests (which I successfully tried). She powerfully recommends that you do this by utilizing nan Chrome browser.
- Go to your Profile page (by clicking connected your individual icon successful nan top-right corner).
- Bring up nan browser console by hitting nan F12 key. (If you’re connected a Mac, you whitethorn petition to usage Fn-F12.) You’ll spot a exemplary unfastened connected nan correct filled pinch code; if you’re not utilized to that, don’t fto it fuss you — you won’t personification to woody excessively overmuch pinch it. Just make judge that nan insubstantial astatine nan very apical (which will opportunity Elements / Console / Sources) has Console underlined.
- At nan bottommost of nan console, wherever location is simply a azygous >, paste successful nan following:
let goToBottom = setInterval(() => window.scrollBy(0, 400), 1000);
According to Moxam, this scrolls each your videos down to nan bottom, making them information of a azygous exemplary truthful they tin beryllium selected.
At nan bottommost of nan console (at right) is simply a abstraction wherever you tin paste your code.
Screenshot: TikTok
Note: you whitethorn spot a informing not to paste codification into nan console that you don’t understand; you’ll beryllium asked to type “allow pasting” and deed Enter first. Go ahead; I utilized immoderate of these codes without an issue.
- Now participate nan 2nd code, which will automatically premier and download a CSV grounds of your links to each nan videos successful your level scheme to your computer. It’s a spot long: here’s a nexus to Moxam’s code.
- The resulting grounds will beryllium called my_data.csv.
- Import nan CSV grounds to a spreadsheet.
Now you tin usage nan links to do a bulk download of your videos. Moxam recommends a free online activity called TOKdownload, which is what I used.
- Copy nan links from nan spreadsheet and paste them into nan designated field. (Note: since I was only downloading a mates of videos, I had nary problems; arsenic Moxam suggests, if you’re dealing pinch ample numbers, you whitethorn want to download successful batches of 50 aliases truthful successful bid to not overwhelm nan app.)
- Click nan Download button.
The online TOKdownload app tin download your videos successful MP4 format.
Screenshot: TOKdownload
- The app will download and process nan links immoderate arsenic nan videos and covers. It could return a while.
- Once it’s done, you’ll get buttons to Download All Videos and Download All Covers. Click connected nan former, and you will get a zip grounds containing MP4 files of your videos.
If you’re still unsure of yourself, you tin spell done Moxam’s video — she’s slow and observant successful her instructions. And make judge to too cheque her associated webpage for immoderate updates.
Backups are ever a bully idea
There are a number of mobile apps disposable arsenic bully that will fto you download and prevention your TikTok videos. If you don’t personification entree to a instrumentality and must usage your phone, you whitethorn find them useful, but I tried a mates and recovered them awkward to use, usually constricted to 1 video astatine a time, and (unless you were consenting to pay) ad-heavy.
However you do it — and moreover if location should beryllium immoderate benignant of last-minute reprieve for TikTok — it is ever a bully thought to backmost up your online videos, peculiarly if they are either personally important to you aliases correspond imaginative activity that you will want to clasp connected to and look backmost connected successful nan years to come.