Developer Scrapes 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Posts Metadata on Hugging Face

A developer scraped metadata for 5.6 billion TikTok videos and posted it on Hugging Face, bypassing TikTok's terms of service. The dataset is available for free under a non-commercial license.

Why it matters. AI developers and researchers now have access to a vast dataset of TikTok video metadata, which can be used to train models and analyze trends on the platform.