How to watch TikTok videos without TikTok account with Proxitok & Finicky

TikTok forces users to create accounts to see the videos

My friends and colleagues share links to TikTok videos quiet often in Slack/Telegram/WhatsApp. When I click the videos I’m forced to create an account to TikTok but I don’t want to have TikTok account in order to see the videos. This morning I realized that few great people in the internet are hosting multiple ProxiTok proxies to see TikTok videos anonymously.

How to rewrite TikTok videos to anonymous proxies on MacOS

Let’s install Finicky in order to manipulate how links are opened on your compute

Run following commands in your terminal to get started:

# Install Finicky with Homebrew
brew install --cask finicky

# Start the Finicky application
open /Applications/Finicky.app

# Edit the Finicky config
${EDITOR:-nano} ~/.finicky.js

module.exports = {
    defaultBrowser: "Safari", // Replace this with browser of your choice
    rewrite: [{
        // Redirect Tiktok video links to use Proxitok public proxies
        match: ({ url }) => (url.host.endsWith("tiktok.com") && url.pathname.startsWith('/@')) || url.host.endsWith("vm.tiktok.com"),
        url: ({ url }) => {
          // See more https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok/wiki/Public-instances
          const selectRandomTikTokProxy = () => {
            const TIKTOK_PROXIES = [
              "proxitok.pabloferreiro.es", // Official
              "proxitok.pussthecat.org",
              "tok.habedieeh.re",
              "proxitok.esmailelbob.xyz",
              "proxitok.privacydev.net",
              "tok.artemislena.eu",
              "tok.adminforge.de",
              "tt.vern.cc",
              "cringe.whatever.social",
              "proxitok.lunar.icu",
              "proxitok.privacy.com.de",
              "cringe.seitan-ayoub.lol",
              "cringe.datura.network",
              "tt.opnxng.com",
              "tiktok.wpme.pl",
              "proxitok.r4fo.com",
              "proxitok.belloworld.it",
            ]
            return TIKTOK_PROXIES[Math.floor(Math.random() * TIKTOK_PROXIES.length)]
          }
          return {
            protocol: "https",
            host: selectRandomTikTokProxy(),
            // Prepend pathname with /@placeholder/video to match ProkiTok urls
            pathname: (url.pathname.startsWith('/@') ? url.pathname : `/@placeholder/video${url.pathname}`)
          }
        }
    }]
}

Save the finicky file and now when you click a TikTok links in your chat applications outside of the browser you should see the videos instead of being forced to log in.

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Finicky can’t rewrite links inside your browser. You need to use other tools for that

 

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