TikTok alternative Frontend

Use Tiktok using an alternative frontend, inspired by Nitter.

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

Configuration

.env

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

Apache

If you are using 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;
}

Known issues

• Right now there is an error when trying to fetch the desired user, there is already a pull request not merged yet fixing this issue on the TikTokApi repo, you can check it out here. This is automatically patched after running composer install

TODO

• Allow searching for just one video using the ID

Credits

• TikTok-API-PHP
• steampixel/simple-php-router
• PHP dotenv
• Bulma