Developer Posts TikTok Video Metadata on Hugging Face
This report is based on information published by decrypt.co. A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on Hugging Face, using data scraped through TikTok's private API.
This report is based on information published by decrypt.co. The outlet said a developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on Hugging Face.
According to the report, the data was scraped through TikTok's private API in a way that TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.
Key Takeaways
- A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on Hugging Face.
- The data was scraped through TikTok's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit.
- The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.
Context
Hugging Face is a platform commonly used to host and share machine learning datasets and tools. TikTok's private API refers to internal access methods not intended for public scraping, and platform terms often restrict that kind of data collection.
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