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ReVanced
feat(TikTok): Download video file name and metadata
Application
TikTok / com.zhiliaoapp.musically
Issue
Right now, when I download a TikTok video, the video gets saved without any metadata. The file name is a 32-character random looking string, and there's no metadata inside the file, that means, going "back" from a downloaded file to the source TikTok is hard / impossible.
Patch
Ideally I would like to see two things, but I don't know if that is easily possible:
A) Instead of having that random byte string as file name, put the uploader's name and the video ID into the file name. For example, for the (nonexistant example) TikTok at https://www.tiktok.com/@example_user/video/1234567890123456789, make the file name "TikTok - example_user - 1234567890123456789.mp4" so that if I have that downloaded file on my phone or computer, I can use the file name to determine the URL to that TikTok.
B) The MP4 video format (and almost all other video formats) support a bunch of metadata like title, author, comment, and so on. If possible - but I don't know if it is, it's probably too difficult - it would be cool if that metadata (uploader, video ID, upload date, description/hashtags, full URL to the TikTok, ...) would be added into the video file metadata so the information can still be extracted if the file gets renamed later.
Motivation
Right now when you download TikTok posts, the files all have a pretty meaningless file name. Given a downloaded mp4 file, there is no way (or at least I don't know any way) to ever "find" that TikTok on the TikTok webpage or in the app again, or to find out anything (uploader, description, comments, ...) about the video.
If the video ID (and if possible, the uploader name) were included in the video file name (or, even better, in the MP4 metadata), then everyone can recreate the tiktok.com URL for the given video and re-visit it on the webpage or in the TikTok app.
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"Sorting by date"? What do you mean with that? The downloaded files have a timestamp of the time they were downloaded. How does sorting these by date help find the original TikTok they were downloaded from?
It doesn't, i asumed you wanted to find the downloaded file, not the original account it was uploaded on.
Ah, no, that's not what I meant. What I meant was, when I'm looking at one of the MP4 files of Tiktoks I downloaded in the past, to find a way to "get back" to that post in the TikTok app (to read comments, like, share, or whatever), and in order to do that, either the file name or the file metadata needs to contain stuff like the video ID and uploader name.
