How to bulk download and save your TikTok videos

Initially, TikTok was prohibited. After that, on Saturday night, January 18th, it went away. After that, the following day, it re-emerged. It might be back forever, however at any time points obtain this unsure, it’s constantly an excellent concept to ensure you have back-ups of all your web content– simply in situation.

While the application provides guidelines on exactly how to download single videos, TikTok evidently does not such as the concept of enabling its designers to bulk download their video clips. You can likewise download and install– in TXT or JSON layout– a specific quantity of your information, which, according to the assistance web page, “might consist of however is not restricted to your username, view video clip background, remark background, and personal privacy setups.” When I attempted it, it did not include my video clips.

You can likewise share specific video clips– similarly you can any type of data– however 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 task. Because situation, it’s a great deal much better to have a mass download method.

To figure out exactly how to do that, I entered into TikTok and learnt a team of video clips using various techniques for downloading your web content. I attempted numerous of the techniques and discovered 3 that functioned fairly painlessly. (All, by the way, require to be done on a computer system instead of a phone.)

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

The simple method: utilize Repurpose.io

A number of individuals advised an application calledRepurpose.io This is not a totally free application– it sets you back $35 a month or $349 a year. Momentarily, Repurpose.io was using totally free downloads from TikTok to Google Drive and Dropbox however 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 merely 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 produce clips (if, for instance, you are sending out YouTube video clips to TikTok).

Screenshot: Repurpose.io

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

The paid application permits you to move a limitless variety of released video clips to approximately 5 various accounts. It might make a great deal of feeling if you are a committed TikTok video clip designer and are considering relocating your video clips to one more solution.

The fascinating method: utilize the DevTools console

If you do not mind playing a little with code, there’s a totally free method to do it too. A specialist called Joanne Moxam has actually released a handy step-by-step YouTube video on exactly how to utilize Chrome’s web browser console to conserve all your web links in one dropped swoop, relocate the information to a spread sheet, and after that utilize 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 suggests that you do this by utilizing the Chrome web browser.

• Most Likely To your Account web page (by clicking your individual symbol in the top-right edge).
• Raise the web browser console by striking the F12 secret (If you get on a Mac, you might require to utilize Fn-F12.) You’ll see a home window open on the best loaded with code; if you’re not utilized to that, do not allow it trouble you– you will not need to deal way too much with it. Simply ensure that the food selection at the really leading (which will certainly state Components/ Console/ Resources) has Console underscored.
• 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 picked.

Screenshot: TikTok

Note: you might see a caution not to paste code right into the console that you do not recognize; you’ll be asked to kind “enable pasting” and strike Get In initially. Proceed; I utilized both of these codes without a problem.

• Currently get in the 2nd code, which will instantly choose 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 utilize the web links to do a mass download of your video clips. Moxam suggests a totally free online solution called TOKdownload, which is what I utilized.

• Replicate 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 no worry; as Moxam recommends, if you’re taking care of great deals, you might intend to download and install in sets of 50 or two 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 might 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 consisting of MP4 documents of your video clips.

If you’re still uncertain of on your own, you can experience Moxam’s video clip– she’s slow-moving and mindful in her guidelines. And ensure to likewise inspect her associated webpage for any type of updates.

The ambiguous method: utilize a Chrome expansion

There are likewise a variety of web browser expansions that can assist you download your web content. This specific technique is thanks to TikToker bari.cait— it entails utilizing a totally free Chrome application in a rather ambiguous however efficient method. You can discover the instructions in bari.cait’s TikTok video; I attempted it and it functioned well on my 2 messages.

• Initially, if you’re intending to download your very own video clips, you’re mosting likely to require a “heater” TikTok account– simply put, an account that is not your initial one. Why? Due to the fact that the application that you’ll utilize just allows you download and install video clips you favored or video clips from individuals you comply with (and you can not precisely follow on your own). If you have any type of problem producing a 2nd account, maybe see if you can obtain a buddy’s– or have a buddy download your video clips for you.
• Open your brand-new TikTok account online 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 offer it accessibility to your documents.
• Return to your TikTok web page and click the myfaveTT symbol, which must currently remain in your expansions checklist. If you do not see it, click the expansion symbol in the top right of your Chrome web browser– it appears like a documents folder– which gives a drop-down checklist of your expansions. See to it myfaveTT is turned on.
• Refill your TikTok web page. You must currently have the myfaveTT sidebar on the left side of your home window.

Screenshot: myfaveTT/ TikTok

• The application offers you the option of downloading and install all your sort, your Faves, or individuals you comply with. Select the last. You’ll obtain a listing of all individuals that your brand-new account is adhering to; ensure your own is the just one picked.
• You’ll after that be asked to choose a folder to conserve the video clips to (if this is the very first time you’re utilizing the application, it will certainly ask you to produce 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. The length of time 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 > Adhering to > [number] > video clips

Back-ups are constantly an excellent concept

There are in fact a variety of web browser and mobile applications offered 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 have to utilize your phone, you might discover the mobile applications helpful, however I attempted a pair and discovered them uncomfortable to utilize, generally restricted to one video clip each time, and (unless you wanted to pay) ad-heavy.

Nonetheless you do it– and also if there must be some kind of last-minute reprieve for TikTok– it is constantly an excellent concept to support your on-line video clips, specifically if they are either directly substantial to you or stand for innovative job that you will certainly intend to hang on to and reflect on in the years ahead.

Update, January 19th, 2025: This write-up was initially released on January 15th and has actually been upgraded because to include the technique utilizing myfaveTT and to keep in mind that TikTok was momentarily down and has actually been brought back in the meantime.