Observed arrival · 2026-09-10

Kuben's TikTok Lab Notebook

kuben.dev Observed source

Editorial interest 86/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A technical notebook documenting TikTok reverse engineering, large-scale scraping, public datasets, and open tools.

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The project combines editorial write-ups with machine-readable datasets and code links. Its technical scope includes mobile API device registration, X-Argus/X-Ladon request signing, TLS fingerprinting, and country extraction from a higher-level post author object. The homepage lists separate 3.1-billion-profile and 4.5-billion-video datasets, with fields such as follower counts, bios, captions, engagement counts, sound, country, and posting time.

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