Site request tiktok.com

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.11.07

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• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-o', '%(autonumber)s-%(title)s_%(upload_date)s.%(ext)s', '--sub-format', 'best', '--write-sub', '--sub-lang', 'en,ja', '--embed-subs', '--netrc']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://m.tiktok.com/v/6606727368545406213.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.11.07
[debug] Python version 3.7.1 (CPython) - Linux-4.20.0-rc1-mainline-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n4.1, ffprobe n4.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 6606727368545406213: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 6606727368545406213: Downloading webpage
[generic] 6606727368545406213: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://m.tiktok.com/v/6606727368545406213.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 508, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3298, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
youtube_dl.utils.UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://m.tiktok.com/v/6606727368545406213.html

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://m.tiktok.com/v/6606727368545406213.html
• Single video: https://m.tiktok.com/v/6606468080325364997.html
• Short link format: http://vm.tiktok.com/[A-Z].{5}/

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Requesting an extractor for tiktok.com/m.tiktok.com most videos may only be reached by using the share button from the Android/iOS app. Some videos may be downloaded from the app itself however some have the download option disabled. The site appears to use "jplayer" with html5 video tags and the akamai distribution network. It seems the video src url is loaded via javascript.