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Serket
Serket

Reputation: 4465

Why cant Python request parse TikTok API data?

I am making a Python request using the request library to TikTok. I managed to dig up the URL for their user details (I don't know whether this is legal or not. If it isn't, please let me know). When I try to parse it into json, it raises an exception. Could someone helpme parse/fix this? Here is the code: Python Code:

r1 = requests.get("https://www.tiktok.com/node/share/user/@nike?isUniqueId=true&verifyFp=verify_kb51zknj_GH98fcme_eDuR_4XzM_ATwp_s8TRdCzr8fwi&_signature=KBbp4AAgEBCtR.e4r-y0ZSgWqPAAHbR").json()
print(r1)

Output:

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 897, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6613

Answers (2)

Avilash Kumar
Avilash Kumar

Reputation: 11

I wrote a wrapper in Python that allows you to fetch Users, Videos, Hashtags, Videos by music, etc. The project can be found here - TikTokAPI-Python

For your problem of fetching a user -

Install

pip install PyTikTokAPI

Get user

from TikTokAPI import TikTokAPI
api = TikTokAPI()
user_obj = api.getUserByName("fcbarcelona")

Upvotes: 1

Jiří Oujezdský
Jiří Oujezdský

Reputation: 229

you must provide user-agent header, ie

headers = {
    'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36',
}

r1 = requests.get("https://www.tiktok.com/node/share/user/@nike?isUniqueId=true&verifyFp=verify_kb51zknj_GH98fcme_eDuR_4XzM_ATwp_s8TRdCzr8fwi&_signature=KBbp4AAgEBCtR.e4r-y0ZSgWqPAAHbR", headers=headers).json()
print(r1)

sory I tried to post it as comment, but failed to format the code xD

Upvotes: 6

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