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I made a tool to export TikTok comments

Details

External ID
46034257
Source
HN
Company
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Product
I made a tool to export TikTok comments
Website domain
exporttok.com
Launched
Nov. 24, 2025
Cohort
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Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.0982532751091703
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

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/

Enrichment

Theme
social media scraping and analytics
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
tiktok comment exporter
Manually corrected
False

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

Competitors

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Attention rank: #152 of 153 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Looks like the first mover among its competitors.

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