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title: "Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free"
url: https://thecoingazette.com/someone-scraped-5-6-billion-tiktok-videos-and-put-the-data-on-hugging-face-for-free/
date: 2026-10-06
modified: 2026-10-06
lang: en
author: "Coin Gazette Editorial"
description: "A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a..."
categories:
  - "Technology"
word_count: 31
---

# Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free

A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.