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Developer posts free dataset of 5.6 billion scraped TikTok videos on Hugging Face

A Decrypt report says a developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped via the app's private API in violation of TikTok's terms, and that the free dataset also serves as a storefront.

Why “Unverified”

Reported by Decrypt alone, with no second source or primary confirmation yet

1 independent source group across 1 post · evidence score 56/100. How labels work

What the sources claim

A developer posted metadata for roughly 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on Hugging Face for free.

“A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos”
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The videos were scraped through TikTok's private API in a way the platform's terms prohibit.

“scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit”
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The free dataset also functions as a storefront.

“The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.”
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Sources

Decrypt newswire 2026-10-06 22:00 UTC
Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free

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Summary and claims extracted by deepseek/deepseek-flash with prompt analyze-story@3 on 2026-10-06 22:10 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.