traktok (version 0.1.1)

tt_videos_hidden: Get video metadata and video files from URLs

Description

Usage

tt_videos_hidden(
  video_urls,
  save_video = TRUE,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  dir = ".",
  cache_dir = NULL,
  sleep_pool = 1:10,
  max_tries = 5L,
  cookiefile = NULL,
  verbose = interactive(),
  ...
)
tt_videos(...)

Value

a data.frame containing post metadata.

Arguments

video_urls

vector of URLs or IDs to TikTok videos.

save_video

logical. Should the videos be downloaded.

overwrite

logical. If save_video=TRUE and the file already exists, should it be overwritten?

dir

directory to save videos files to.

cache_dir

if set to a path, one RDS file with metadata will be written to disk for each video. This is useful if you have many videos and want to pick up where you left if something goes wrong.

sleep_pool

a vector of numbers from which a waiting period is randomly drawn.

max_tries

how often to retry if a request fails.

cookiefile

path to your cookiefile. Usually not needed after running auth_hidden once. See vignette("unofficial-api", package = "traktok") for more information on authentication.

verbose

should the function print status updates to the screen?

...

handed to tt_videos_hidden (for tt_videos) and (further) to tt_request_hidden.

Details

The function will wait between scraping two videos to make it less obvious that a scraper is accessing the site. The period is drawn randomly from the sleep_pool and multiplied by a random fraction.

Note that the video file has to be requested in the same session as the metadata. So while the URL to the video file is included in the metadata, this link will not work in most cases.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
tt_videos("https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7106594312292453675")
}