Published Oct 6, 2026, 6:00 PM ET · Updated a month ago · 1 source

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

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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.