{
  "id": 12480105,
  "title": "Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/someone-scraped-5-6-billion-tiktok-videos-and-put-the-data-on-hugging",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-06T22:00:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Decrypt",
    "slug": "decrypt",
    "url": "https://decrypt.co/380229/someone-scraped-5-billion-tiktok-videos-posted-data-hugging-face"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}