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TikTok Downloader

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TikTok Downloader

Downloads individual TikTok videos as well as entire profiles, hashtags and sounds. Either as video or as audio only. No credentials required.


Interface

The layout matches the YouTube Downloader, including the toggle between audio and video. The default here is Video, since TikTok is primarily a video platform.

The accent color is the TikTok pink #EE1D52. Window geometry lives in tt_win_geo, defaulting to 820 by 720 pixels.


Supported URLs

Type Example Result
Single video https://www.tiktok.com/@name/video/1234567890 One entry
Profile https://www.tiktok.com/@name All videos of that profile
Hashtag https://www.tiktok.com/tag/example Videos for that hashtag
Sound https://www.tiktok.com/music/title-1234567890 Videos using that sound

The distinction works like this: if the URL contains /tag/, /music/ or an /@ without /video/, it is treated as a collection and read flat. Everything else is a single video.

Profiles, hashtags and sounds can produce a very large number of entries. Check how many videos end up in the queue before starting.


Title detection

TikTok often provides no usable title, only placeholders such as TikTok video #1234567890 or just the video ID. The app therefore builds a sensible name itself:

  1. The video description, truncated to 80 characters, if it is not a placeholder
  2. Otherwise the title field, also truncated to 80 characters and also only if it is not a placeholder
  3. Otherwise the upload date in YYYY-MM-DD format
  4. As a last resort the first 20 characters of the video ID

If an uploader is known, it is prefixed as Uploader - Text. That exact " - " is what the naming scheme later uses to split artist and title, see Filename Templates.


Video mode

The same formats as in the YouTube downloader: MP4 at 1080p, 720p, 480p and 360p plus MKV (Best) and WebM (Best).

TikTok generally delivers videos as MP4 with H.264 at a height of 1024 to 1080 pixels in portrait orientation. The resolution steps therefore act as upper bounds: picking 360p gives you a smaller file, picking 1080p simply gives you the best available version.

Watermarks depend on what the platform serves. The app does not remove watermarks.


Audio mode

Extracts the audio track and converts it to the selected audio format. Handy for saving a sound from a video.

With "Embed Thumbnail" enabled, the video cover is written into the audio file as an image.

Since TikTok audio is usually lossy and low resolution to begin with, a high target bitrate makes little sense here. MP3 (192 kbps) or MP3 (256 kbps) is plenty.


TikTok downloader settings

Section Option Default
Downloads Parallel Downloads 2
Filename Naming scheme {title}
Media Processing Embed Thumbnail on
Network Speed Limit No limit
Network Open Folder When Done on

There is deliberately no subtitle and no SponsorBlock option here, neither is of any use for TikTok.

Plus the "Uninstall & Cleanup" section, identical to the other windows.


Notable behavior

  • Skipped files: if the target file already exists, the entry is marked as done immediately.
  • Short links: vm.tiktok.com links are resolved by yt-dlp as long as tiktok.com is part of the link.
  • Private content: videos that require a login cannot be downloaded. The log then shows an extraction error.
  • Region locks: region-locked videos fail as well. The app does not include any way around this.

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