Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free
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A developer has scraped metadata from roughly 5.6 billion publicly accessible TikTok videos using the platform’s private API, violating TikTok’s terms, and uploaded the entire dataset to Hugging Face for free, where it also serves as a storefront.
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.