Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok app for less than $20
Summary
The article analyzes reverse-engineering TikTok's mobile API to scrape metadata, detailing four checks the app uses to validate requests and how researchers built a content-based success judge. It covers bypassing TLS pinning, using the app's signing library with unidbg, and creating a scalable scraping workflow with rotating identities and proxies.