TikToks API is utter garbage and preventing you to be found
tldr; TikTok hides your profile from outside the US when not using the app
Most of y'all probably never though of this or even have to care, but since I'm working on a chat overlay with tiktok support this has to be said:
the way we can get the chat messages from livestreams, or even the most basic profile info is completely cursed.
Since tiktok doesn't even give official endpoint for most things what I had to build is little more than a web scraper, but wait:
some features need to be signed, so I have a chrome window open to pretend to be an actual user and reuse the cookies set to sign all other requests...
BUT EVEN THAT is not enough, because for some reason, SOME and only some US based users aren't visible from outside of the US AT ALL...
So people not using the app may not see your content if they are not US based.
Haven't heard anyone talking about this so far, so now you know
