[Broken]Tiktok seems to be broken

Checklist

• I’m reporting a broken site support
• I’ve verified that I’m running youtube-dlc version 2020.10.24
• I’ve checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I’ve checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

Verbose log

ytdlc -v https://www.tiktok.com/@charlidamelio/video/6854565358808993029
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.tiktok.com/@charlidamelio/video/6854565358808993029']
[debug] Loading archive file None
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dlc version 2020.10.24-5
[debug] Python version 2.7.16 (CPython) - Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[TikTok] 6854565358808993029: Downloading video webpage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "./ytdlc/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "./ytdlc/youtube_dlc/__init__.py", line 487, in main
  File "./ytdlc/youtube_dlc/__init__.py", line 477, in _real_main
  File "./ytdlc/youtube_dlc/YoutubeDL.py", line 2096, in download
  File "./ytdlc/youtube_dlc/YoutubeDL.py", line 830, in extract_info
  File "./ytdlc/youtube_dlc/extractor/common.py", line 532, in extract
  File "./ytdlc/youtube_dlc/extractor/tiktok.py", line 137, in _real_extract
  File "./ytdlc/youtube_dlc/extractor/tiktok.py", line 22, in _extract_aweme
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

Description

https://www.tiktok.com/@charlidamelio/video/6854565358808993029

[GreyAlien502]

Also, i’ve submitted pull request #20 for the 403 error. Any feedback would be welcome. It always works for me, but the more testing the better.

[merval]

I am also getting 403 errors. Just making some observations here:

If I look at a video page loaded in a web browser, it’s setting 4 cookies. If I make a python request to this same page, I only get 2 cookies set: tt_webid and tt_webid_v2. The missing ones are MONITOR_WEB_ID and s_v_web_id.

Share links do actually consistently work. As in vm.tiktok.com/something. You generate those from inside the app. yt-dlc will follow a redirect from the share link to a normal-looking video URL with a number of extra parameters passed in. Not sure what else is different.

If you add --cookies cookies.txt and then run it a second time, it’ll work. I don’t think it’s a missing cookie issue, since the cookies written are just those two.