Douyin DL

Download Douyin (抖音) short videos from URLs. Supports direct video links, search page links with modal_id, share links (v.douyin.com), and note links. Uses headless browser to bypass anti-scraping and extract video source. Use when asked to "download douyin video", "下载抖音视频", "save douyin clip", or given any douyin.com URL to download.

Douyin Video Downloader

Downloads Douyin videos by opening the page in a headless browser, extracting the <video> source URL, and downloading via curl. This bypasses yt-dlp's cookie issues with Douyin's anti-scraping.

Prerequisites

• agent-browser (npm i -g agent-browser)
• curl

Usage

bash

python3 scripts/douyin_download.py <URL> [--output-dir DIR] [--filename NAME]

Supported URL Formats

• https://www.douyin.com/video/<id> — direct video page
• https://www.douyin.com/search/...?modal_id=<id> — search results with video modal
• https://v.douyin.com/<code> — share short links
• https://www.douyin.com/note/<id> — note/image posts with video

Examples

bash

# Basic download to ~/Downloads
python3 scripts/douyin_download.py 'https://www.douyin.com/video/7577715519366576522'

# Custom output directory and filename
python3 scripts/douyin_download.py 'https://www.douyin.com/video/7577715519366576522' \
  -o ~/Videos -f my_video

# From search page URL
python3 scripts/douyin_download.py 'https://www.douyin.com/search/关键词?modal_id=7577715519366576522'

How It Works

1. Normalize URL → extract video ID, construct direct video page URL
2. Open page in agent-browser (headless Chromium)
3. Extract <video> element's currentSrc (CDN direct link)
4. Close browser
5. Download MP4 via curl with proper Referer header

Notes

• No login required — fresh browser session is sufficient
• Video title auto-detected from page title for filename
• Large videos may take 30-60s to download depending on network
• CDN links are temporary (~2h validity); download promptly after extraction