ProxiTok

Use Tiktok with an alternative frontend, inspired by Nitter.

Features

• Privacy: All requests made to TikTok are server-side, so you will never connect to their servers
• See user's feed
• See trending
• See tags
• See video by id
• Discovery
• RSS Feed for user, trending and tag (just add /rss to the url)

Extensions

If you want to automatically redirect Tiktok links to ProxiTok you can use:

• Libredirect
• Redirector

You can use the following config if you want to use Redirector (you can change https://proxitok.herokuapp.com with whatever instance you want to use):

Description: TikTok to ProxiTok
Example URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok
Include pattern: (.*//.*)(tiktok.com)(.*)
Redirect to: https://proxitok.herokuapp.com$3
Example result: https://proxitok.herokuapp.com/@tiktok
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Apply to: Main window (address bar)

Installation

Clone the repository and fetch the requiered external packages with:

composer install

Move the .env.example file to .env and modify it.

Then you can run it using for example the PHP Development Server with:

php -S localhost:8080

Configuration

Cache engines

Available cache engines:

• redis: Writes response to Redis
• json: Writes response to JSON file

Apache

You don't have to do anything more

Nginx

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

location /.env {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

TODO / Known issues

• Docker
• Full installation instructions
• Add a NoJS version / Make the whole program without required JS
• Make video on /video fit screen and don't overflow
• i18n

Credits

• TikScraperPHP
• Latte
• bramus/router
• PHP dotenv
• Bulma and Bulmaswatch
• FeedWriter