TikTok extractor no longer working

[bandicootdancing]

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youtube-dl -v http://vm.tiktok.com/e3a494
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://vm.tiktok.com/e3a494']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.15rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-45-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4, ffprobe 3.4.4, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] e3a494: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.tiktok.com/share/user/79093015200?u_code=d4f5id58ih06h6&language=en&timestamp=1554477103&user_id=6654663938946678789
[generic] 79093015200?u_code=d4f5id58ih06h6&language=en&timestamp=1554477103&user_id=6654663938946678789: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 79093015200?u_code=d4f5id58ih06h6&language=en&timestamp=1554477103&user_id=6654663938946678789: Downloading webpage
[generic] 79093015200?u_code=d4f5id58ih06h6&language=en&timestamp=1554477103&user_id=6654663938946678789: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.tiktok.com/share/user/79093015200?u_code=d4f5id58ih06h6&language=en&timestamp=1554477103&user_id=6654663938946678789
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2337, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2551, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2540, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1659, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1523, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 794, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 529, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3320, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.tiktok.com/share/user/79093015200?u_code=d4f5id58ih06h6&language=en&timestamp=1554477103&user_id=6654663938946678789
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

It looks like tiktok changed their redirect URL for profiles and videos. The extractor no longer works. I did verify the profiles and videos are still there but getting "Error: Unsupported URL" for the new tiktok urls.

[jmraker]

I noticed that there's a few file naming weirdness with tiktok's newer user video profile pages. Not sure if it deserves a new issue as it's all filename related.

It correctly downloads a video but with the extension ".unknown_video" where when it's renamed to a .mp4 file it plays.

When it downloads this url "https://www.tiktok.com/share/video/6675989091407891717?refer=pc_reflow_user" it adds "refer.pc_reflow_user" to the filename. The new url parameters are from clicking on a video at https://www.tiktok.com/share/user/6567659045795758085 in a web browser.

Another different and probably unnecessary file naming behavior from before is it adding " on TikTok" in the filename. It's adding that to every user video page I've tried today. For example 'Chris Alexander on TikTok-6673921230787071238refer=pc_reflow_user.unknown_video'

$ youtube-dl.exe -v "https://www.tiktok.com/share/video/6675989091407891717?refer=pc_reflow_user"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.tiktok.com/share/video/6675989091407891717?refer=pc_reflow_user']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.04.01
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: avconv v13_dev0-1440-g34c1133, avprobe v13_dev0-1440-g34c1133, ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 6675989091407891717?refer=pc_reflow_user: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 6675989091407891717?refer=pc_reflow_user: Downloading webpage
[generic] 6675989091407891717?refer=pc_reflow_user: Extracting information
[download] Downloading playlist: Tom on TikTok
[generic] playlist Tom on TikTok: Collected 1 video ids (downloading 1 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://v19.muscdn.com/ba54aff5597e5bbd69d1215f1d079884/5ca874d9/video/tos/maliva/tos-maliva-v-0068/4a248f13868e4fff8d5b905f42ff18cc/?rc=M2g8M3B1bXN4bDMzODczM0ApQHRwbndsQG9FNjQ7NTgzNDMzNjc1MzM0NW9AaDN1KUBmM3UpZnNlemhoZGY2NUBsYS9pbG5eLWZfLS0yMTZzczVvI1xsaHFvI0I0MC0vMTIuLjYwLjIxNi06I28jOmEtcSM6YGheK2IranQ6IzAuXg=='
[download] Destination: Tom on TikTok-6675989091407891717refer=pc_reflow_user.unknown_video
[download] 100% of 3.32MiB in 00:02
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Tom on TikTok

[bandicootdancing]

Yeah, looks like individual videos are somewhat working like you said. Using "%(uploader)s.%(upload_date)s.%(resolution)s.%(id)s.%(ext)s" still produces those odd filenames. Doesn't seem to be picking up uploader, upload date, or resolutions either.

I have a list of profiles I had set to download once a day so this is a bummer. I can manually grab things for a bit but hopefully this can be figured out soon.