The tool helps to download posts and videos from tiktok for a given set of hashtags. It uses tiktok-scraper (https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper) to download the posts and videos.

Pre-requisites

Make sure you have python 3.8 or later version installed.
Download and install TikTok scraper: https://github.com/drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper

Options for running run_downloader.py

Data organization

data folder contains all the downloaded data as shown in the pic above.

the log folder contains log.json which records the total number of downloaded posts and videos for the hashtags against the time stamp of when the script is run.

Post download example

Run the run_downloader.py with the following option: python3 run_downloader.py --h london paris newyork -p