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I made a tool to export TikTok comments

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Hey HN!I'm Jack, the maker of ExportTok.I built this tool because I spent hours manually copy-pasting TikTok comments for market research and wanted an easier way. With ExportTok, you can quickly export all comments from any TikTok video to CSV or Excel for analysis.You do need to sign up to use it, but you don't need a TikTok account or credentials. The data includes usernames, timestamps, and engagement metrics. So far, users have exported over 500,000 comments.Would love feedback:1. What other data fields would be helpful? 2. Any privacy concerns? 3. Suggestions for use cases or improvements?Thanks for checking it out!Link: https://exporttok.com/

HN · launched Nov 24, 2025 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views

Niche: social media data extraction tools · 84 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Data infrastructure
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial While the web app and CSV export logic are trivial to vibe code, reliably scraping millions of TikTok comments without an account requires bypassing TikTok's strict anti-bot measures, signature tokens (XBogus/MS-Token), and rotating proxy infrastructure.

What it would actually take: A production implementation requires a scraping engine reverse-engineering TikTok's internal Web API endpoints, including parameter signing algorithms or a farm of headless browsers (e.g., Playwright/Puppeteer with stealth patches). It needs integration with residential proxy networks (like Bright Data) to avoid IP rate-limiting and captcha challenges. A solo builder can prompt the UI and export handlers easily, but maintaining reverse-engineered TikTok signatures requires active scraping engineering expertise.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: TikTok is banned in India

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