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
Create a following list, which you can later use to see all the feeds from those users

Installation

Clone the repository and fetch the requiered external packages with:

composer install

WARNING: You'll need a personal Github token for composer.

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

php -S localhost:8080

Configuration

.env

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

Cache engine

Available cache engines:

redis: Writes response to Redis (check .env.example for config!)
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 tiktok-viewer part if you have or not a subdir):

location /tiktok-viewer {
    return 302 $scheme://$host/tiktok-viewer/;
}

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

location /tiktok-viewer/.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

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