traktok (version 0.1.1)

tt_user_videos_hidden: Get videos from a TikTok user's profile

Description

Get all videos posted by a TikTok user.

Usage

tt_user_videos_hidden(
  username,
  solve_captchas = FALSE,
  return_urls = FALSE,
  save_video = FALSE,
  timeout = 5L,
  scroll = "5m",
  verbose = interactive(),
  ...
)

Value

A list of video data or URLs, depending on the value of return_urls.

a data.frame containing metadata of user posts or character vector of URLs.

Arguments

username

The username of the TikTok user whose hidden videos you want to retrieve.

solve_captchas

open browser to solve appearing captchas manually.

return_urls

return video URLs instead of downloading the vidoes.

save_video

passed to tt_videos_hidden if return_urls = FALSE.

timeout

time (in seconds) to wait between scrolling and solving captchas.

scroll

how long to keep scrolling before returning results. Can be a numeric value of seconds or a string with seconds, minutes, hours or days (see examples).

verbose

should the function print status updates to the screen?

...

Additional arguments to be passed to the tt_videos_hidden function.

Details

This function uses rvest to scrape a TikTok user's profile and retrieve any hidden videos.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Get hidden videos from the user "fpoe_at"
tt_user_videos_hidden("fpoe_at")
}