Instagram items are typically short, which makes this about as quick as a download gets: the file is usually complete before you have finished reading this sentence. Nothing is queued and nothing is processed server-side first. Instagram is one of the broader integrations here — 18 distinct link shapes are handled rather than a single canonical one. Instagram is one of the few platforms wired into both routes at once, because its posts and its streams are genuinely different things. Instagram supports signed-in sessions upstream, which is precisely how it hides private material; we browse anonymously, so that material stays hidden.
The address bar works too. Prefix any Instagram URL with tikt.com/:
tikt.com/https://www.example.com/path/to/media
A post link and a stream link are both fine here — they take different paths internally and you do not have to care which.
The URL shape decides the route: album-style Instagram links go to the gallery extractor, stream-style links to the media extractor.
A post can return several files and a stream returns one. Either way nothing was re-encoded on the way through.
Konvertéiert URLen an erofzeluedend Dateien iwwer eng präzis REST Interface. Extrahéiert Video-, Audio- a Bildstreams mat deterministesche Reaktiounen a veraarbecht se op enger grousser Skala.
import requests
response = requests.post(
"https://api.tikt.com/api/download",
headers={"Authorization": "API_KEY"},
json={"url": "URL"},
)
for item in response.json()["items"]:
print(item["type"], item["url"])
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