Is there a good selfhosted service that can download and rehost tiktok links from a web ui?
from ch00f@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 2025 05:46
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Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 01 Aug 2025 06:34 next collapse

I thought downloading and redistributing tiktok videos was against TikToks TOS?

Maybe Linkwarden can do it.

Mora@pawb.social on 01 Aug 09:06 collapse

I thought downloading and redistributing tiktok videos was against TikToks TOS?

Which you only agreed to if you have an account (and even then they realistically can only ban your account). If you rehost publically you might get issues with copyright laws though.

captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org on 01 Aug 13:23 collapse

I would be the most concerned about the music. The MPAA exists solely to sue consumers and seems to have no other real purpose. Probably best to scrub the soundtracks.

gravitywell@sh.itjust.works on 01 Aug 2025 07:18 next collapse

Ive used offtiktok which is self hostable

There is also proxitok

Or you could probably work out something with yt-dlp or one of the front ends for it.

Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de on 01 Aug 07:43 next collapse

Can confirm that yt-dlp works perfectly for TikTok videos

ch00f@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 17:06 next collapse

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for!

ch00f@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 17:27 next collapse

WARNING

The docker-down.sh script associated with offtiktok runs a docker prune -f and will delete any unused docker containers you have without warning.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 22:21 collapse

Cool alternatives. Thanks for the links.

jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works on 01 Aug 17:11 collapse

If you just want an internal webUI with video playback, I absolutely love MeTube.

github.com/alexta69/metube

It uses yt-dlp as a backend and has a lot of configuration and supports a lot of sites.

Exposing this to the outside isn’t a good idea because of the risk of DMCA or someone abusing your hard drive space