Tiktok publishes live output next to finished uploads, and the two behave differently. A replay, VOD or clip has a settled file behind it and downloads normally. A stream that is still running does not have an end yet, so wait for the replay to appear before pasting the link. Tiktok is one of the broader integrations here — 7 distinct link shapes are handled rather than a single canonical one. Tiktok is one of the few platforms wired into both routes at once, because its posts and its streams are genuinely different things. The renditions we see from Tiktok arrive as M4A, MP3, MP4.
Either paste a Tiktok link above, or put tikt.com/ in front of any Tiktok URL in your address bar:
tikt.com/https://www.example.com/path/to/media
Mēnā rānei he TikTok URL, ka taea e koe te whakarerekē i tētahi TikTok URL pērā ki te whakaaturia i raro nei. Whakamātau OK mai i te URL me te pāpā ki te tāuru.
From the Tiktok link to a saved file
1. Grab whichever Tiktok link you have
A post link and a stream link are both fine here — they take different paths internally and you do not have to care which.
2. Paste and let it route
The URL shape decides the route: album-style Tiktok links go to the gallery extractor, stream-style links to the media extractor.
3. Collect what came back
A post can return several files and a stream returns one. Either way nothing was re-encoded on the way through.