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douyin_tiktok_download_api

Self-hosted REST and MCP API for Douyin, TikTok and Bilibili data

Live demo ↗ Documentation ↗ Website ↗ Repository on GitHub ↗

Stars: 21.4k
License: Apache-2.0
Last commit: Nov 2026
Last release: Nov 2026
Language: Python

Stars, last 29 weeks+4,219

17,132 on 21 Apr 202621,351 on 10 Nov 2026

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Checked 11 Nov 2026 on GitHub.

Overview

FastAPI service that fetches posts, authors, comments, sounds, hashtags, live rooms and trending boards from Douyin, TikTok and Bilibili, and downloads media without watermarks. It keeps a self-maintaining pool of guest identities minted by a headless browser, archives parsed data in PostgreSQL, and exposes REST, an MCP endpoint and a React console. Downloaded videos can be transcribed offline with FunASR, mainly for Mandarin.

Who it is for: Developers needing a self-hosted Douyin, TikTok or Bilibili data API

Strengths

Identity pool with health tiers, rate limits and circuit breakers; per-request logs visible in console
Same service layer served over REST, MCP (streamable-http) and a CLI
Offline FunASR transcription ran a 3 min clip in 3.7 s on two CPU cores
Archives parsed posts in PostgreSQL, so content deleted upstream stays available

Weaknesses

Needs PostgreSQL and Redis, plus separate browser and transcription containers
Douyin search, hashtag posts, followers and following are not offered without a signed-in session
Transcription models are general Chinese ones; other languages come out poorly
v5 is a full rewrite; v4 is frozen and its bundled Douyin cookie has expired

What it needs

Python, FunASR ONNX (Paraformer, FSMN-VAD, CT-Transformer)
Needs PostgreSQL, Redis, CloakBrowser (headless, container), FunASR ONNX models (optional)
Docker
env example file

Quick answers

Is douyin_tiktok_download_api open source?

Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license.

Can you run douyin_tiktok_download_api with Docker?

Yes. Its repository has a Docker setup: a Dockerfile, a Compose file or a published image.

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How to choose

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Health

Releases: 16 in the last 12 monthsLast one 3 days ago
Top contributor: 98% of commits390 of 399 in the last 12 months
Security advisories: 1 published ↗ (opens in a new tab)On GitHub, in the last 12 months; none critical or high
OpenSSF Scorecard: Not checked

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License in plain words

Apache-2.0 Permissive

Use it at work: Yes
Change it and rebrand it: Yes
Sell it or host it for others: Yes

Your part: Keep the notices and mark the files you change. It also grants you the contributors’ patent rights.

A plain summary, not legal advice. Read the license on GitHub ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Set it up

Needs before it works: PostgreSQL, Redis, CloakBrowser (headless, container), FunASR ONNX models (optional).

Bring in an engineer who knows douyin_tiktok_download_api. By the hour for upkeep and fixes, or a fixed price for a build. Our own engineering service; it never changes a rank.

Where to run it

RackNerd ↗ (opens in a new tab)Budget KVM VPS from $26.99 a year to run Docker apps yourself.
RepoCloud ↗ (opens in a new tab)One-click hosting for about 890 open-source apps, each on its own VPS.

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