[nhubinhtnut]

API has problems. I can't download Tiktok videos without watermark. Please help me fix this issue for jdownloader2. Thank you very much

[pspzockerscene]

Technical background is explained here:
https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=95440

TL;DR
Nothing we can do at this moment.

[pspzockerscene]

To all users / to sum this up so far:
Tiktok has changed their API to be more strict when it comes to the kind of requests it accepts. This is also what Neurotoxin001 has posted here.
Inside a yt-dlp issue, users have reported that a possible solution is to include two device-specific Tiktok IDs inside the needed API requests.
While this is working, tiktok will most likely ban those "credentials" when e.g. all JDownloader users and/or all yt-dlp users are using them all of the sudden so this is not a solution that we will implement.
Reference for interested users:
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/9506#issuecomment-2019339926

[traverjg]

FWIW,

The web services that offer downloads without watermark seem to still be working. Can't do them in bulk, but at least you can get specific videos.
(just use a search engine with something like tiktok+no+watermark+download)

Also not sure if their method of accomplishing it is viable for jdownloader.



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[pspzockerscene]

Some of them will also cache videos they've downloaded before plus they might be using the method I described in my last post [which again is not viable for us to implement].

[kd_94]

now when "media crawl mode" is on API it downloads with the watermark

so how to download without watermark ?

[pspzockerscene]

Merged tiktok threads.

[marlohampton]

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

To all users / to sum this up so far:
Tiktok has changed their API to be more strict when it comes to the kind of requests it accepts. This is also what **External links are only visible to Support Staff**... has posted here.
Inside a yt-dlp issue, users have reported that a possible solution is to include two device-specific Tiktok IDs inside the needed API requests.
While this is working, tiktok will most likely ban those "credentials" when e.g. all JDownloader users and/or all yt-dlp users are using them all of the sudden so this is not a solution that we will implement.
Reference for interested users:
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/9506#issuecomment-2019339926

Is there any way within JDownloader to configure the API settings to download TikTok videos without a watermark?

I read through the Yt-dlp thread but the workaround went over my head. I'm not well versed in command-line programs & I couldn't find a step-by-step tutorial on the fix.

[Jiaz]

@marlohampton: at the moment (as far as I'm aware of) there is only way to use the api with real device/user ID from real tiktok app.

[pspzockerscene]

Sure we could add settings for that but it's still ucertain how long that would work.
At this moment, I'd recommend using yt-dlp with your own values and see how that develops.

[Neurotoxin001]

yt-dlp hardcoded values is broken now. How can I find my device/user ID?

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by Neurotoxin001

How can I find my device/user ID?

Most likely you need to do a "man in the middle" attack to your own device to obtain those values.

Google "mitm proxy android" though some apps are using certificate pinning so this might not be very straightforward to do.

[Neurotoxin001]

Can you learn JD to download videos without watermark if I add tiktok account in JD?

Because when I open videos in browser, there is no watermark on them. And in google chrome console I see these requests:

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And there is this parameter:

lr=unwatermarked

But if I open the link from this query in a new tab, there will be 403 error. But maybe you can teach JD to download videos from such requests.

[Jiaz]

@Neurotoxin001: If it would be that easy, then other tools would do it as well they make use of heavily javascript/obfuscation and other techniques

[pspzockerscene]

@Jiaz
You may have misunderstood him - he just wants to download that direct link obtained via browser extension to JD.

@Neurotoxin001
That is not possible as tiktok is using a mix of signing links, referer-protection and cookie-protection to try to prevent people from just "stealing" or "re-using" such direct-URLs.
You can easily test this by just taking this link -> Open it in a private browser window -> It will fail with an error.
The only possible solution to download such direct links atm is to use a browser extension such as "VideoDownloadHelper" to download those links without JDownloader.