tiktokget hasn't been working for some time now, as tiktok has updated their web page to block selenium with captchas and other such nonsense. Thus, I'm reverting to a basic shellscript, with simpler functionality.

A tiktok downloader bash script for Linux (and probably all other POSIX-compatible systems). Downloads tiktok videos using yt-dlp

Prerequisites

You'll need:

• yt-dlp and most of it's dependancies (pycryptodomex not required) for getting videos without watermark
• a linux userland with the usual utilities (bash, grep, tr) -- if you're on windows, your best bet is to use wsl.

I have replaced my python script with a simpler bash script. This script can be invoked as follows:

1. place tiktok videos you want to download in a plain text file, with 1 url per line
2. invoke tiktokget: ./tiktokget thefile, where thefile is the hypothetical name of the text file you created.
3. alternatively, supply tiktokget directly with a url: ./tiktokget tiktokurl

bear in mind, since this is a bash script, you have to be mindful of spaces. Don't put spaces in the filename, or at least quote the filename if you do that.

For getting the url of a tiktok video, I would recommend installing kdeconnect on your phone and your computer, and linking them. Then you can click "share", and click "copy link", and then paste in your computer, easy peasy.