[BUG] - Status Code 10204

Describe the bug

When running api.getTikTokById on a silent video’s ID, it returns {'statusCode': 10204} when it should return a TikTok object.

The buggy code

from TikTokApi import TikTokApi

api = TikTokApi()
tiktoks = api.byUsername('penguins')
for tiktok in tiktoks:
    if (tiktok['id'] == '6791925545199258886'):
        print(tiktok)

newTik = api.getTikTokById('6791925545199258886')
print (newTik)

Expected behavior

The code above shows what happens when the ID is found from api.byUsername and how the result is different when calling api.getTikTokById for the same ID.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser Default is Chrome
• Version 3.1.9

Additional context

Silent videos have always been a problem on desktop TikTok, direct links don’t work but clicking on the video works.

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[isaackogan]

I think I might have an update on this, someone reached out to me on Discord for my implementation of the API because videos were getting blocked. I found the 10204 status code, and searched it on google to find this issue.

It looks to be a region issue in my case, perhaps the sound not being available in the request region.

Directly curling the URL from https://www.tiktok.com/@jjay.mal/video/6950355238276631814 on my VPS in germany returns that 10204, tried again on my VPS with https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6950355238276631814?lang=en-US 10204.

Both return valid video data from my home in Canada when locally requested.

Credit goes to the user oof ouch my bones#3778 for figuring this out if it does help in any way.