Download all your bookmarks from TikTok

TikTok.md

Here is how I am downloading all my bookmarks from TikTok.

I used Microsoft Edge on Windows.

Prereqs

• yt-dlp

Step 1: get a list of videos

1. Log in to TikTok on your computer.
2. Browse to Profile > Favorites.
3. Open the Inspector (right-click > Inspect)
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the favorites page. You can do this by running this code in the Console of the Inspector:

while (true) { window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight); await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 100)); }

Note

This may not work if you have a lot of bookmarks; I don't know if TikTok unloads videos as you scroll, but this worked for my 311 favorites

4. Get a list of all the videos. In the Inspector Console:

let results = []; while (true) { let added = 0; Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("[role=button][aria-label='Watch in full screen']")).map((e) => e.querySelector("a").href).forEach((e) => { if (!results.includes(e)) { results.push(e); added++; } }); if (added === 0) { break; }; window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight); await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 100)); } console.log(results.join("\n"));

5. Click Copy:

6. Create a directory where you'd like to save videos.
7. Create a text file in this directory & paste the text, e.g. toks.txt

Step 2: download

In a Terminal window (shown for PowerShell on Windows; steps are very similar for mac).

7. cd to the directory where you want your videos to be saved.

8. Run `c:/path/to/yt-dlp.exe -a c:/path/to/my/list/toks.txt --sleep-interval 1 --max-sleep-interval 60

   You probably need --restrict-filenames (since titles can start with things like @ or #, which Windows doesn't like & mac probably doesn't like either)

   In my case:

   C:\Users\bobbo\Downloads\yt-dlp.exe C:\Users\bobbo\Downloads\tiktoks\toks.txt --sleep-interval 1 --max-sleep-interval 60 --restrict-filenames

TikToks should start downloading!

Note

If something breaks midway through, you can always rerun the yt-dlp command; it will skip anything that's already downloaded.

Thanks for putting this together!

In case anyone else had this issue: Uncaught SyntaxError: await is only valid in async functions, async generators and modules , I ended up modifying the two JS snippets as follows:

Scroll to bottom of page

async function scrollToBottom() {
  while (true) {
    window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight); 
    await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 100)); 
  }
}

scrollToBottom(); 

Grab all URLs

async function getAllLinks() {
  let results = [];

  while (true) {
    let added = 0;

    Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("[role=button][aria-label='Watch in full screen']"))
      .map((e) => e.querySelector("a").href)
      .forEach((e) => {
        if (!results.includes(e)) {
          results.push(e);
          added++;
        }
      });

    if (added === 0) {
      break;
    }

    window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight);
    await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 100)); 
  }

  console.log(results.join("\n"));
}

getAllLinks();

@liquidmelt Thanks for sharing! I initially combined the scrolling + grabbing links, but I found that I wasn't grabbing all the links because new favorites took a few seconds to load.