[BUG] - by_username() TikTok returned a response indicating the entity is invalid

Describe the bug

Using the by_username() function to get a dict of a users videos causes the error “TikTok returned a response indicating the entity is invalid”

The buggy code

video_dict = api.by_username(user, count=count, custom_did=did, custom_verifyFp=verifyFp)

Error Trace (if any)

Put the error trace below if there’s any error thrown.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/kevin/PycharmProjects/tiktokcompilations/main.py", line 125, in main
    download_videos(chosen_user, number_of_videos)
  File "C:/Users/kevin/PycharmProjects/tiktokcompilations/main.py", line 21, in download_videos
    video_dict = api.by_username(user, count=count, custom_did=did, custom_verifyFp=verifyFp)
  File "C:\Users\kevin\tiktokcompilations\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py", line 635, in by_username
    **kwargs,
  File "C:\Users\kevin\tiktokcompilations\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py", line 595, in user_posts
    res = self.get_data(url=api_url, send_tt_params=True, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\kevin\tiktokcompilations\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py", line 302, in get_data
    "TikTok returned a response indicating the entity is invalid"
TikTokApi.exceptions.TikTokNotFoundError: TikTok returned a response indicating the entity is invalid

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• TikTokApi Version 4.0.4

[MuffinFox]

Just set your custom aid for trending, and keep lib default for user_pager and it will work.

[klauria22]

Are you setting aid=1284 by yourself? That is not done by the lib and wont work.

aid=1284 was working for a few weeks with no issues. Setting it back to 1988 does fix demo_user_pager.py, but setting 'aid=1284` is to fix the bug where by_trending() only returns videos from @tiktok. So I guess I can get trending users, or download videos, but not both?