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

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

php -S localhost:8080 -t public

Configuration

.env

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

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

Add the following to your config (you can modify the proxitok part if you have or not a subdir):

location /proxitok {
    return 302 $scheme://$host/proxitok/;
}

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

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

TODO

• Add a NoJS version / Make the whole program without required JS
• Better error handling
• Make video on /video fit screen and don't overflow
• i18n

Credits

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