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Rapidok — A High-Performance TikTok Downloader for Developers & Power Users

If you work with TikTok content — analysis, archiving, OSINT, meme-farming, creator backups — you already know the pain: unreliable sites, rate limits, "video unavailable", constant API changes, and slow, one-by-one downloads.

Rapidok fixes all of that.

Built by miztizm, Rapidok is a fast, concurrent TikTok downloader powered by yt-dlp, engineered for people who actually need performance, reliability, and structure. This isn’t another web UI wrapper — it’s a real tool that behaves like a dev tool should.


⚡ Why Rapidok Exists

TikTok updates break online downloaders every month. Some watermark your videos. Some compress them. Some flat-out lie about “HD”.

Rapidok takes a different approach:

Local. Fast. Concurrent. Structured. Developer-grade.

  • No ads
  • No browser scraping
  • No shady servers
  • Everything runs locally
  • Full control over throttling, speed, concurrency, metadata, folder structure, and safety

If you’re tired of unreliable online downloaders, welcome home.


🔥 Core Features (for people who actually care)

  • Multi-threaded downloads — process multiple TikTok URLs at once
  • Full profile archiver — download all videos/images from any username
  • Smart content filters — image-only, audio-only, video-only, metadata-only
  • Auto-sorted folders — everything grouped by creator
  • Metadata extraction — titles, captions, stats, timestamps — saved as JSON
  • Watermark control — choose clean or watermarked sources
  • Archive tracking — never re-download items unless you want to
  • Robust failsafe mode — retries, logs, human-readable errors
  • Safe defaults — rate limiting & jitter to avoid TikTok bans
  • Image extraction — grab photos from slideshows (carousel posts)
  • Optimized yt-dlp integration — modern, stable, future-proof

This is one of the few TikTok downloaders that is actually suitable for:

  • Researchers
  • Developers
  • Archivists
  • OSINT workflows
  • Content creators backing up their own profiles
  • Heavy users who download hundreds or thousands of videos

📦 Install in 5 Seconds

From PyPI (recommended)


bash
pip install rapidok
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