thundersquared/tikvidbot repository overview

⁠tikvidbot

A Telegram bot to fetch TikTok videos locally

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⁠A bot for what?

tikvidbot is a bot allows you to save TikTok videos locally. To get a video, just share it's URL to the chat and it'll send the file.

⁠Usage

You can use the latest docker hub image⁠ passing config variables⁠ through environment:

docker run --rm \
-e BOT_NAME="tikvidbot" \
-e BOT_TOKEN="your:token" \
-e HTTP_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)" \
thundersquared/tikvidbot

Start it without Docker:

install node and yarn with this manual:

INSTALL.md⁠

Just run "yarn" once and then you can start the bot with "yarn dev"

⁠Tech stack

The bot is written in Node.JS, relies on telegraf⁠ to consume Telegram's Bot API, loves got⁠ for fetching video pages and streaming videos and jsdom⁠ for parsing and interacting with them.

⁠Credits

Project originally started by thundersquared⁠, improved by the contributors⁠.

⁠License

The code in this repo and used modules are open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license⁠.