Hashtags and Mentions

Sure. Hashtags and mentions are a little harder to automate because they are created through are more convoluted process. The HTML they generate is fairly simple, however.

Developing this system is definitely something I will do, but I have to think about how to make it resilient enough to not break when TikTok updates their site.

Setting Thumbnails

Settings thumbnails was also something I did not envision, but it requires similar lower-level manipulation.

Do you have a specific part of the video you want to thumbnail to be, or would you more so be randomly the thumbnail frame?

Custom Functions

Something I will 100% do in the next release is allow the user to pass a custom function which is passed the webdriver before submitted. This way, the user can make any custom actions they like.

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@wkaisertexas Regarding Hashtags, I have inserted this piece of code in your library. I fill in a list as a parameter and it works pretty well but really not robust in my opinion.

if hashtag: time.sleep(300) for unit_hashtag in hashtag: time.sleep(2) desc.send_keys(" ") desc.send_keys(str(unit_hashtag)) time.sleep(2) desc.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Regarding the thumbnail, for example I would like the bot to select 3 seconds from the video.

Also, do you know how long cookies are valid?

Thank you so much

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Looking into my browser settings, my session_id token expires three months after it was created.

I have an old computer which I logged into which has been logged in for longer than that. I am not quite sure, but there may be a process for automatically refreshing the token. If so, it probably would be a good idea to save the session_id.

This is not really something that I know too much about, though.

If sending an enter key after the hashtag works, that is great. I thought direct manipulation of the HTML might have been required which could potentially be more fragile if classnames and the like change.

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Version 0.1.2 adds support for hashtags and mentions. Thanks for the suggestion.

Changing the thumbnail was not tackled as to set the video's position to 3 seconds in, you would also need to know the length of the video, potentially requiring more libraries and in general I think it may be too broad for the scope of this library.

I really intended this library be used as the final step of a video uploading pipeline. In that pipeline, the first segment of the video is designed to function as a thumbnail.

Check out @c_span. For these videos, the first 10 seconds have a number which represents which part of the series the video is in.

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