Decrypt October 06, 2026

Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free

Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free
A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.
Source: Decrypt
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