Hi again,
1. Sure it may have worked - but we never had a specified crawler for tiktok which means that our general crawler was simply able to find the first few tiktok URLs in the html code
... so yeah, you were just lucky.
If tiktok had hidden their content behind another http request, our parser would have never found anything.
2. You are right!
I've done some experiments but I don't see any way to get around this limitation atm. without either using their API and/or making a profile crawler.
You will have to use browser addons such as "Video DownloadHelper" to download such videos until there is a solution available for JD.
Ticket:
-psp-