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François M.
François M.

Reputation: 4278

requests.get() not completing with Tiktok user profile

So, basically, it seems that requests.get(url) can't complete with Tiktok user profiles url:

import requests
url = "http://tiktok.com/@malopedia"
rep = requests.get(url) #<= will never complete

As I don't get any error message, I have no idea what's going on. Why is it not completing? How do I get it to complete?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (1)

SnoopFrog
SnoopFrog

Reputation: 724

TikTok is quite strict when it comes to automated connections so you need to provide headers in your request, like this:

import requests

url = "http://tiktok.com/@malopedia"
rep = requests.get(
    url,
    headers={
        "Accept": "*/*",
        "Accept-Encoding": "identity;q=1, *;q=0",
        "Accept-Language": "en-US;en;q=0.9",
        "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
        "Connection": "keep-alive",
        "Pragma": "no-cache",
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0",
    },
)
print(rep)

This should respond with 200.

However, if you plan on doing some heavy lifting with your code, consider using one of the unofficial API wrappers, like this one.

Upvotes: 2

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