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[BUG] - Response 403

See original GitHub issue

Since yesterday i have a problem with few endpoints. I’ve tested only getby endpoints and byHashtag and by Sound have responses 403

>>> api.byHashtag('love')

{'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36', 'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br', 'accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'authority': 'm.tiktok.com', 'method': 'GET', 'path': '/share/item/list?aid=1988&app_name=tiktok_web&device_platform=web&referer=&user_agent=Mozilla%2F5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit%2F537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome%2F84.0.4147.125+Safari%2F537.36&cookie_enabled=true&screen_width=2560&screen_height=1440&browser_language=&browser_platform=&browser_name=&browser_version=&browser_online=true&timezone_name=&priority_region=&appId=1233&appType=m&isAndroid=false&isMobile=false&isIOS=false&OS=windows&did=822148675&region=US&secUid=&id=4231&type=3&count=30&minCursor=0&maxCursor=0&shareUid=&recType=&lang=en&verifyFp=AaN99VturDQ2&_signature=_02B4Z6wo00f01SDv8tgAAIBB6rMaD8GoX..ZAABdw74', 'scheme': 'https', 'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9', 'referrer': 'https://www.tiktok.com/', 'sec-fetch-dest': 'empty', 'sec-fetch-mode': 'cors', 'sec-fetch-site': 'same-site'}
Converting response to JSON failed response is below (probably empty)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "~/PycharmProjects/backup_scrapers/vevn/lib/python3.8/site-packages/TikTokApi/tiktok.py", line 85, in getData
    return r.json()
  File "~/PycharmProjects/backup_scrapers/vevn/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 898, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/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)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "~/PycharmProjects/backup_scrapers/vevn/lib/python3.8/site-packages/TikTokApi/tiktok.py", line 357, in byHashtag
    res = self.getData(api_url, b, proxy=proxy, language=language)
  File "~/PycharmProjects/backup_scrapers/vevn/lib/python3.8/site-packages/TikTokApi/tiktok.py", line 91, in getData
    raise Exception('Invalid Response')
Exception: Invalid Response

is this a bigger problem or something went wrong on my project?

Desktop:

OS: macOS Catalina
TikTokApi Version 3.4.3/3.4.6

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

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WinkyDevcommented, Sep 7, 2020

David, I’ve suggested a fix to the issue. apparently Tiktok decided to check the “Referer” header and it was written as “referrer” in the code. for everyone that need a quick fix like me, just change it on line 76 (tiktok.py)

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liamengland1commented, Sep 7, 2020

@Granitosaurus here is the URL of the calls from a guest window. Everything you said seems right. Also, it’s maxCursor, not max_cursor.

https://m.tiktok.com/share/item/list?aid=1988&app_name=tiktok_web&device_platform=web&referer=&user_agent=Mozilla%2F5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit%2F537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome%2F85.0.4183.83+Safari%2F537.36&cookie_enabled=true&screen_width=1920&screen_height=1080&browser_language=en-US&browser_platform=Win32&browser_name=Mozilla&browser_version=5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit%2F537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome%2F85.0.4183.83+Safari%2F537.36&browser_online=true&ac=4g&timezone_name=America%2FNew_York&priority_region=&appId=1233&region=US&appType=m&isAndroid=false&isMobile=false&isIOS=false&OS=windows&did=6869796811135485445&secUid=&id=229207&type=3&count=30&minCursor=0&maxCursor=0&shareUid=&recType=&lang=&verifyFp=verify_kessja7g_BCk1nsDe_YsYQ_4hyP_9bGX_fj1ypHrqLwx0&_signature=_02B4Z6wo00f01YYw7LgAAIBBwNHmb-qJuVWGMegAAD7ec2

Scrolling down: https://m.tiktok.com/share/item/list?aid=1988&app_name=tiktok_web&device_platform=web&referer=&user_agent=Mozilla%2F5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit%2F537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome%2F85.0.4183.83+Safari%2F537.36&cookie_enabled=true&screen_width=1920&screen_height=1080&browser_language=en-US&browser_platform=Win32&browser_name=Mozilla&browser_version=5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0%3B+Win64%3B+x64)+AppleWebKit%2F537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome%2F85.0.4183.83+Safari%2F537.36&browser_online=true&ac=4g&timezone_name=America%2FNew_York&priority_region=&appId=1233&region=US&appType=m&isAndroid=false&isMobile=false&isIOS=false&OS=windows&did=6869796811135485445&secUid=&id=229207&type=3&count=30&minCursor=0&maxCursor=30&shareUid=&recType=&lang=&verifyFp=verify_kessja7g_BCk1nsDe_YsYQ_4hyP_9bGX_fj1ypHrqLwx0&_signature=_02B4Z6wo00d015LyXQAAAIBD1BNX1sp3Sg-S81mAALv215