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[Tiktok] Unable to download some Tiktok videos

See original GitHub issue

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I’m reporting a broken site
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Description

Unable to download some Tiktok videos

Verbose log

root@local:~/test# /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp.sh -Uv  https://www.tiktok.com/@chloecatalanooo/video/7041197121529203974?_t=8OnUindHzoj 
[debug] Command-line config: ['-Uv', 'https://www.tiktok.com/@chloecatalanooo/video/7041197121529203974?_t=8OnUindHzoj']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.12.27 [6223f67a8] (source)
[debug] Plugins: ['SamplePluginIE', 'SamplePluginPP']
[debug] Git HEAD: 1e5c83b26
[debug] Python version 3.9.7 (CPython 64bit) - Linux-4.9.0-17-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.24
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.1.2, ffprobe 4.1.2, phantomjs 2.1.1
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Latest version: 2021.12.27, Current version: 2021.12.27
yt-dlp is up to date (2021.12.27)
[debug] [TikTok] Extracting URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@chloecatalanooo/video/7041197121529203974?_t=8OnUindHzoj
[TikTok] 7041197121529203974: Downloading video details
WARNING: [TikTok] 7041197121529203974: Failed to parse JSON  (caused by JSONDecodeError('Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.; Retrying with webpage
[TikTok] 7041197121529203974: Downloading webpage
[TikTok] 7041197121529203974: Downloading video webpage
ERROR: [TikTok] 7041197121529203974: Unable to extract json_string; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp  on how to update. Be sure to call yt-dlp with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/opt/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 599, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/opt/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/tiktok.py", line 368, in _real_extract
    json_string = self._search_regex(
  File "/opt/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1173, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)

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Created 2 years ago
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Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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coletdjnzcommented, Jan 6, 2022

Yep, duplicate of #2133. Fix is already in master and will be in next release.

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dirkfcommented, Jan 7, 2022

See also #2133.

The fix for SIGI-type pages appears to be included in the yt-dlp version that gets run as Git HEAD: f5c2c2c9b, and was observed and patched for yt-dl some time ago as well: PR #30224, issue #30251. There have been several commits to the extractor since the release, including the SIGI fix.

$ python3.9 -m yt_dlp -v -F 'https://www.tiktok.com/@chloecatalanooo/video/7041197121529203974?_t=8OnUindHzoj'
[debug] Command-line config: ['-v', '-F', 'https://www.tiktok.com/@chloecatalanooo/video/7041197121529203974?_t=8OnUindHzoj']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, err utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] yt-dlp version 2021.12.27 [6223f67a8] (source)
[debug] Lazy loading extractors is disabled
[debug] Plugins: ['SamplePluginIE', 'SamplePluginPP']
[debug] Git HEAD: f5c2c2c9b
[debug] Python version 3.9.7 (CPython 32bit) - Linux-4.4.0-210-generic-i686-with-glibc2.23
[debug] exe versions: avconv 4.3, avprobe 4.3, ffmpeg 4.3, ffprobe 4.3
[debug] Optional libraries: sqlite
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] [TikTok] Extracting URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@chloecatalanooo/video/7041197121529203974?_t=8OnUindHzoj
[TikTok] 7041197121529203974: Downloading video details
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, codec, size, br
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, vcodec, acodec, filesize, fs_approx, tbr, vbr, abr, lang, res, fps, hdr:12(7), asr, proto, vext, aext, hasaud, source, id
[info] Available formats for 7041197121529203974:
ID                    EXT RESOLUTION │    FILESIZE   TBR PROTO │ VCODEC   VBR ACODEC ABR MORE INFO
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
download_addr-0       mp4 576x1024   │     2.33MiB       https │ h264         aac        Download video, watermarked (API)
download_addr-1       mp4 576x1024   │     2.33MiB       https │ h264         aac        Download video, watermarked
download_addr-2       mp4 576x1024   │     2.33MiB       https │ h264         aac        Download video, watermarked
h264_540p_1888257-0   mp4 576x1024   │     2.30MiB 1888k https │ h264   1888k aac     0k Direct video (API)
h264_540p_1888257-1   mp4 576x1024   │     2.30MiB 1888k https │ h264   1888k aac     0k Direct video
h264_540p_1888257-2   mp4 576x1024   │     2.30MiB 1888k https │ h264   1888k aac     0k Direct video
bytevc1_540p_310191-0 mp4 576x1024   │   387.66KiB  310k https │ h265    310k aac     0k Playback video (API)
bytevc1_540p_310191-1 mp4 576x1024   │   387.66KiB  310k https │ h265    310k aac     0k Playback video
bytevc1_540p_310191-2 mp4 576x1024   │   387.66KiB  310k https │ h265    310k aac     0k Playback video
bytevc1_540p_407699-0 mp4 576x1024   │   509.53KiB  407k https │ h265    407k aac     0k Playback video (API)
bytevc1_540p_407699-1 mp4 576x1024   │   509.53KiB  407k https │ h265    407k aac     0k Playback video
bytevc1_540p_407699-2 mp4 576x1024   │   509.53KiB  407k https │ h265    407k aac     0k Playback video
bytevc1_540p_689966-0 mp4 576x1024   │   862.29KiB  689k https │ h265    689k aac     0k Direct video (API)
bytevc1_540p_689966-1 mp4 576x1024   │   862.29KiB  689k https │ h265    689k aac     0k Direct video
bytevc1_540p_689966-2 mp4 576x1024   │   862.29KiB  689k https │ h265    689k aac     0k Direct video
bytevc1_720p_806576-0 mp4 unknown    │  1008.02KiB  806k https │ h265    806k aac     0k Playback video (API)
bytevc1_720p_806576-1 mp4 unknown    │  1008.02KiB  806k https │ h265    806k aac     0k Playback video
bytevc1_720p_806576-2 mp4 unknown    │  1008.02KiB  806k https │ h265    806k aac     0k Playback video
$

Whereas in yt-dl, the extractor tries to get a cookie for the page of interest by fetching https://www.tiktok.com/ and this now times out in all Python versions tested: see https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30251#issuecomment-1006967496.