Get videos stats

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Tags: #tiktok #videos #stats #snippet #content
Author: Alok Chilka​
Description: This notebook provides an analysis of video statistics on the popular social media platform, TikTok.
Input
Import libraries
try:
    from TikTokAPI import TikTokAPI
except:
    !pip install --user PyTikTokAPI
    from TikTokAPI import TikTokAPI
import nest_asyncio
import pandas as pd
nest_asyncio.apply()
Setup your TikTok
How to get cookies ?
"s_v_web_id and "tt_webid"
While logged into your tiktok account, Click F12 to open developer console in your browser. Navigate to path Storage -> Cookies -> https://www.tiktok.com and on right hand side there are the parameters marked which you will need.
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# Cookies
cookie = {
    "s_v_web_id": "verify_l0ecjehXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "tt_webid": "1%7CaSy-x8YGNmB_l9qsXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
}
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# Username
username = "tiktester04"
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# setup count of videos to be retrieved ( preferred count by api is 30)
video_count = 30
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# set hashtag to identify and extract videos
user_hastag = "#teslatok"
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# set application type. This is used to distinguish data for application in master data model
APP_TYPE = "TikTok"
Create connection object
api = TikTokAPI(cookie=cookie)
Model
Get videos by user
def get_videos_by_user(username):
    # Get videos by userName
    """
    Video ID
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    """
    userVideoIdList = []
    # userVideos = api.getVideosByUserName(user_name=username, count=video_count,cursor=0)
    userVideos = api.getVideosByHashTag(user_hastag, count=video_count)
    userVideoList = userVideos["itemList"]
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    for userVideo in userVideoList:
        userVideoIdList.append(userVideo["video"]["id"])
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    return userVideoIdList
Get video id list
userVideoIdList = get_videos_by_user(username)
userVideoIdList
Get individual videos by ID
def get_video_stats_by_id(userVideoIdList):
    video_stats = {}
    tiktokDF = pd.DataFrame()
    for videoId in userVideoIdList:
        video_stats[videoId] = ""
        videoByID = api.getVideoById(videoId)
        videoTitle = ""
        videoDesc = videoByID["itemInfo"]["itemStruct"]["desc"]
        videoCreateTime = videoByID["itemInfo"]["itemStruct"]["createTime"]
        videoLink = videoByID["itemInfo"]["itemStruct"]["video"]["playAddr"]
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        videoStats = videoByID["itemInfo"]["itemStruct"]["stats"]
        videoLikeCount = videoStats["diggCount"]
        videoCommentCount = videoStats["commentCount"]
        videoPlayCount = videoStats["playCount"]
        videoShareCount = videoStats["shareCount"]
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        videoAuthor = videoByID["itemInfo"]["itemStruct"]["author"]
        videoAuthorName = videoAuthor["uniqueId"]
        videoAuthorStats = videoByID["itemInfo"]["itemStruct"]["authorStats"]
        videoAuthorFollowerCount = videoAuthorStats["followerCount"]
        videoAuthorFollowingCount = videoAuthorStats["followingCount"]
        videoAuthorTotalVideoCount = videoAuthorStats["videoCount"]
        videoAuthorTotalHeartCount = videoAuthorStats["heartCount"]
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        video_stats[videoId] = video_stats_obj
        data = [
            [
                videoId,
                videoCreateTime,
                videoAuthorName,
                videoTitle,
                videoDesc,
                videoLink,
                videoPlayCount,
                videoCommentCount,
                videoLikeCount,
                videoShareCount,
                APP_TYPE,
            ]
        ]
        df = pd.DataFrame(
            data,
            columns=[
                "ACTIVITY_ID",
                "PUBLISHED_DATE",
                "AUTHOR_NAME",
                "TITLE",
                "TEXT",
                "POST_URL",
                "VIEWS",
                "COMMENTS",
                "LIKES",
                "SHARES",
                "APPLICATION_TYPE",
            ],
        )
        tiktokDF = tiktokDF.append(df)
    return tiktokDF
Output
Get stats by video id
df_videos = get_video_stats_by_id(userVideoIdList)
df_videos
TikTok
Get user stats
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