How to bulk download and save your TikTok videos

There’s a basic feeling of ruin on the TikTok feeds nowadays, and not surprising that: it resembles the video clip solution might bebanned in the US as of January 19th TikTok designers are providing satirical goodbyes to their Chinese spies and asking yourself just how swiftly they can download and install the numerous hundred– or thousand– video clips they have up on the solution.

TikTok itself obviously does not such as the concept of enabling its designers to bulk download their video clips. You can download– in TXT or JSON layout– a specific quantity of your information, which, according to the assistance web page, “might consist of yet is not restricted to your username, see video clip background, remark background, and personal privacy setups.” When I attempted it, it did not include my video clips.

You can likewise share private video clips– similarly you can any kind of data– yet if you have actually obtained a collection of a number of hundred or even more TikTok video clips, that’s mosting likely to be fairly a work. Because situation, it’s a great deal much better to have a mass download technique.

To learn just how to do that, I entered into TikTok and learnt a team of video clips providing various techniques for downloading your web content. I attempted numerous of the techniques and located 3 that functioned reasonably painlessly. (All, by the way, require to be done on a computer system as opposed to a phone.)

A caution prior to I start: not being a real TikTok maker, I just had actually 2 released TikTok video clips on my account, which I had actually made as an experiment time earlier. Therefore, it really did not take much time for me to download them making use of any one of the techniques. If you’re a real TikTok maker, anticipate downloads and conversions to spend some time.

The simple method: make use of Repurpose.io

A number of individuals advised an application calledRepurpose.io This is not a complimentary application– it sets you back $35 a month or $349 a year. Momentarily, Repurpose.io was providing totally free downloads from TikTok to Google Drive and Dropbox yet needed to take out the deal “due to high demand” Nonetheless, you still reach download and install 10 video clips free of cost over 2 week, so you can attempt it out initially.

Repurpose.io allows you disperse your web content on various systems: you just inform it where to submit the video clips (besides TikTok, it will certainly draw information from Instagram, YouTube, Zoom, and a variety of various other solutions) and where you desire it to send them (besides Instagram and various other solutions, you can conserve them to Dropbox, SoundCloud, Google Drive, and various other applications). You can arrange routine transfers, repurpose just future web content or all existing web content, and also develop clips (if, for instance, you are sending out YouTube video clips to TikTok).

Screenshot: Repurpose.io

When I attempted it, Repurpose.io quickly got my 2 TikTok video clips and moved them to my Google Drive in a number of mins. While it ought to take a whole lot much longer if you have, state, numerous hundred video clips, the user interface maintains you as much as day on which video clips have actually been moved and the amount of are left.

The paid application enables you to move a limitless variety of released video clips to as much as 5 various accounts. It can make a great deal of feeling if you are a specialized TikTok video clip maker and are thinking about relocating your video clips to an additional solution.

The intriguing method: make use of the DevTools console

( Update: since January 18th, DownloadTok seems not available with a 503 mistake. One more website, Snaptik, might be readily available.)

If you do not mind playing a little with code, there’s a complimentary method to do it also. A specialist called Joanne Moxam has actually released a handy step-by-step YouTube video on just how to make use of Chrome’s internet browser console to conserve all your web links in one dropped swoop, relocate the information to a spread sheet, and afterwards make use of an online device to mass download your video clips.

Listed Below, I have actually summed up the actions that Moxam recommends (which I effectively attempted). She highly advises that you do this by utilizing the Chrome internet browser.

• Most Likely To your Account web page (by clicking your individual symbol in the top-right edge).
• Raise the internet browser console by striking the F12 trick (If you get on a Mac, you might require to make use of Fn-F12.) You’ll see a home window open on the best loaded with code; if you’re not made use of to that, do not allow it trouble you– you will not need to deal way too much with it. Simply see to it that the food selection at the extremely leading (which will certainly state Components/ Console/ Resources) has Console highlighted.
• At the end of the console, where there is a solitary >, paste in the following:

allow goToBottom = setInterval(() => window.scrollBy( 0, 400), 1000);

According to Moxam, this scrolls all your video clips to all-time low, making them component of a solitary home window so they can be chosen.

Screenshot: TikTok

Note: you might see a caution not to paste code right into the console that you do not comprehend; you’ll be asked to kind “enable pasting” and strike Go Into initially. Go on; I made use of both of these codes without a problem.

• Currently go into the 2nd code, which will immediately pick and download and install a CSV data of your web links to all the video clips in your account to your computer system. It’s a little bit lengthy:here’s a link to Moxam’s code
• The resulting data will certainly be called my_data. csv.
• Import the CSV data to a spread sheet.

Currently you can make use of the web links to do a mass download of your video clips. Moxam advises a complimentary online solution called TOKdownload, which is what I made use of.

• Duplicate the web links from the spread sheet and paste them right into the marked area. (Note: because I was just downloading and install a number of video clips, I had not a problem; as Moxam recommends, if you’re taking care of great deals, you might wish to download and install in sets of 50 approximately in order to not bewilder the application.)
• Click the Download And Install switch.

Screenshot: TOKdownload

• The application will certainly download and install and refine the web links both as the video clips and covers. It can take a while.
• Once it’s done, you’ll obtain switches to Download And Install All Video Clips and Download And Install All Covers Click the previous, and you will certainly obtain a zip data having MP4 documents of your video clips.

If you’re still unclear of on your own, you can undergo Moxam’s video clip– she’s sluggish and mindful in her guidelines. And see to it to likewise inspect her associated webpage for any kind of updates.

The ambiguous method: make use of a Chrome expansion

There are likewise a variety of internet browser expansions that can assist you download your web content. This certain approach is thanks to TikToker bari.cait— it includes making use of a complimentary Chrome application in a rather ambiguous yet reliable method. You can discover the instructions in bari.cait’s TikTok video; I attempted it and it functioned perfectly on my 2 blog posts.

• Initially, if you’re intending to download your very own video clips, you’re mosting likely to require a “heater” TikTok account– to put it simply, an account that is not your initial one. Why? Due to the fact that the application that you’ll make use of just allows you download and install video clips you favored or video clips from individuals you comply with (and you can not specifically follow on your own). If you have any kind of difficulty producing a 2nd account, maybe see if you can obtain a good friend’s– or have a good friend download your video clips for you.
• Open your brand-new TikTok account on the internet and follow your very own routine account (the one with all your video clips in it).
• Download and install the Chrome application myfaveTT from the Chrome Internet Shop and mount it. You’ll need to provide it accessibility to your documents.
• Return to your TikTok web page and click the myfaveTT symbol, which ought to currently remain in your expansions listing. If you do not see it, click the expansion symbol in the top right of your Chrome internet browser– it resembles a data folder– which gives a drop-down listing of your expansions. See to it myfaveTT is turned on.
• Refill your TikTok web page. You ought to currently have the myfaveTT sidebar on the left side of your home window.

Screenshot: myfaveTT/ TikTok

• The application offers you the selection of downloading and install all your sort, your Faves, or individuals you comply with. Select the last. You’ll obtain a checklist of all individuals that your brand-new account is adhering to; see to it your own is the just one picked.
• You’ll after that be asked to pick a folder to conserve the video clips to (if this is the very first time you’re making use of the application, it will certainly ask you to develop a brand-new vacant folder). After that go on and strike Following
• The application will certainly download and install the video clips related to that account. For how long it will certainly take will certainly depend upon the amount of video clips there are to download and install. When it’s done, the application will certainly allow you understand. The MP4 video clips will certainly remain in your brand-new folder under information > Complying with > [number] > video clips

Back-ups are constantly a great concept

There are in fact a variety of internet browser and mobile applications readily available that will certainly allow you download and install and conserve your TikTok video clips. If you do not have accessibility to a computer system and need to utilize your phone, you might discover the mobile applications valuable, yet I attempted a pair and located them uncomfortable to make use of, generally restricted to one video clip at once, and (unless you agreed to pay) ad-heavy.

Nonetheless you do it– and also if there ought to be some kind of last-minute reprieve for TikTok– it is constantly a great concept to support your on-line video clips, specifically if they are either directly considerable to you or stand for imaginative job that you will certainly wish to hang on to and review in the years ahead.

Update, January 18th, 2025: This short article was initially released on January 15th and has actually been upgraded to include the approach making use of myfaveTT and to keep in mind that DownloadTok seems not available.