TikTokLive 0.0.1

TikTok Live Connection Client (Unofficial)

TikTok-Live-Connector

A python library to connect to and read events from TikTok's LIVE service

A python library to receive and decode livestream events such as comments and gifts in real-time from TikTok's LIVE service by connecting to TikTok's internal WebCast push service. This library includes a wrapper that connects to the WebCast service using only a user's unique_id and allows you to join your livestream as well as that of other streamers. No credentials are required to use TikTok-Live-Connector.

This library is a mostly 1:1 python implementation of TikTok-Livestream-Chat-Connector by @zerodytrash meant to serve as an alternative for users who feel more comfortable working in Python.

This is not an official API. It's a reverse engineering and research project.

Join the support discord and DM fallen#9745 for inquiries, help and suggestions. Feel free to make pull requests with missing/new features, fixes, etc.

Getting started

1. Install the module via pip

pip install TikTokLive

2. Create your first chat connection

from TikTokLive import TikTokLiveClient
from TikTokLive.types.events import CommentEvent, ConnectEvent

# Instantiate the client with the user's username
client: TikTokLiveClient = TikTokLiveClient(unique_id="@oldskoldj")


# Define how you want to handle specific events via decorator
@client.on("connect")
async def on_connect(_: ConnectEvent):
    print("Connected to Room ID:", client.room_id)


# Notice no decorator?
async def on_comment(event: CommentEvent):
    print(f"{event.user.nickname} -> {event.comment}")


# Define handling an event via "callback"
client.add_listener("comment", on_connect)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Run the client and block the main thread
    # await client.start() to run non-blocking
    client.run()

For more examples, see the examples folder provided in the tree.

Params & Options

To create a new TikTokLiveClient object the following parameter is required. You can optionally add configuration options to this via kwargs.

TikTokLiveClient(unique_id, **options)

Param Name	Required	Description
uniqueId	Yes	The unique username of the broadcaster. You can find this name in the URL. Example: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialgeilegisela/live => officialgeilegisela
options	No	Here you can set the following optional connection properties. If you do not specify a value, the default value will be used. process_initial_data (default: true) Define if you want to process the initital data which includes old messages of the last seconds. fetch_room_info_on_connect (default: true) Define if you want to fetch all room information on start. If this option is enabled, the connection to offline rooms will be prevented. If enabled, the connect result contains the room info via the room_info attribute. You can also manually retrieve the room info (even in an unconnected state) using the retrieve_room_info() method. enable_extended_gift_info (default: false) Define if you want to receive extended information about gifts like gift name, cost and images which you can retrieve via the available_gifts attribute. request_polling_interval_ms (default: 1000) Request polling interval. client_params (default: {}) Custom client params for Webcast API. request_headers (default: {}) Custom request headers passed to aiohttp.

Example Options:

from TikTokLive import TikTokLiveClient

client: TikTokLiveClient = TikTokLiveClient(
    unique_id="@oldskoldj", **(
        {
            "process_initial_data": True,
            "fetch_room_info_on_connect": True,
            "enable_extended_gift_info": False,
            "request_polling_interval_ms": 1000,
            "client_params": {},
            "request_headers": {}
        }
    )
)

client.run()

Methods

A TikTokLiveClient object contains the following methods.

Method Name	Description
run	Starts a connection to the live chat while blocking the main thread (sync)
start	Connects to the live chat without blocking the main thread (async)
stop	Turns off the connection to the live chat.
retrieve_room_info	Gets the current room info from TikTok API
retrieve_available_gifts	Gets a list of the available gifts for the room and their data
add_listener	Adds an asynchronous listener function (or, you can decorate a function with @client.on()) and takes two parameters, an event name and the payload, an AbstractEvent

Events

A TikTokLiveClient object has the following events. You can add events either by doing client.add_listener("event_name", callable) or by decorating a function with @client.on("event_name") that includes an event payload parameter.

connect

Triggered when the connection gets successfully established.

@client.on("connect")
async def on_connect(event: ConnectEvent):
    print("Connected")

disconnect

Triggered when the connection gets disconnected. You can call start() to have reconnect . Note that you should wait a little bit before attempting a reconnect to to avoid being rate-limited.

@client.on("disconnect")
async def on_disconnect(event: DisconnectEvent):
    print("Disconnected")

like

Triggered every time someone likes the stream.

@client.on("like")
async def on_like(event: LikeEvent):
    print("Someone liked the stream!")

join

Triggered every time a new person joins the stream.

@client.on("join")
async def on_join(event: JoinEvent):
    print("Someone joined the stream!")

gift

Triggered every time a gift arrives. Extra information can be gleamed off the available_gifts client attribute.

NOTE: Users have the capability to send gifts in a streak. This increases the data.gift.repeat_count value until the user terminates the streak. During this time new gift events are triggered again and again with an increased data.gift.repeat_count value. It should be noted that after the end of the streak, another gift event is triggered, which signals the end of the streak via data.gift.repeat_end:1. This applies only to gifts with data.gift.gift_type:1. This means that even if the user sends a gift_type:1 gift only once, you will receive the event twice. Once with repeat_end:0 and once with repeat_end:1. Therefore, the event should be handled as follows:

@client.on("gift")
async def on_gift(event: GiftEvent):
    print("Someone sent a gift!")

follow

Triggered every time someone follows the streamer.

@client.on("follow")
async def on_follow(event: FollowEvent):
    print("Someone followed the streamer!")

share

Triggered every time someone shares the stream.

@client.on("share")
async def on_share(event: ShareEvent):
    print("Someone shared the streamer!")

viewer_count_update

Triggered every time the viewer count is updated. This event also updates the cached viewer count by default.

@client.on("viewer_count_update")
async def on_connect(event: ViewerCountUpdateEvent):
    print("Received a new viewer count:", event.viewCount)

comment

Triggered every time someone comments on the live

@client.on("comment")
async def on_connect(event: CommentEvent):
    print(f"{event.user.nickname} -> {event.comment}")

live_end

Triggered when the live stream gets terminated by the host.

@client.on("live_end")
async def on_connect(event: LiveEndEvent):
    print(f"Livestream ended :(")

unknown

Triggered when an unknown event is received that is not yet handled by this client

@client.on("live_end")
async def on_connect(event: UnknownEvent):
    print(event.as_dict, "<- This is my data as a dict!")

Contributors

• Isaac Kogan - Initial work - isaackogan
• Zerody - Reverse-Engineering & README.md file - Zerody

See the full list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.