4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
Summary
A detailed technical guide on TikTok's private mobile API, covering device registration, request signing (X-Argus, X-Ladon, TTEncrypt), region-based hosting, and TLS fingerprinting (JA3). It outlines a four-step pipeline to reach rich data via a private API, plus a self-hosted Go service and rotating proxies, with measured endpoint success rates and deployment considerations. The piece also discusses legal and ethical considerations of large-scale scraping.