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Developer Scrapes 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos
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A developer named hashfunction posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on Hugging Face, covering July 2014 through October 2026. The dataset includes 460 GB of Parquet files with engagement counts and is free under a non-commercial license, though the scraper source code sells for $1,699. This action violates TikTok's terms barring automated scraping without written approval.
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