Comments and replies

A video's discussion comes in two layers. comments reads the top-level comments under a video, and replies reads the answers under one of them. Both ride the signed API plane, so from a datacenter IP they may exit 4. See troubleshooting.

Top-level comments

Pass a video url or a bare id:

tt comments https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7106594312292453675
tt comments 7106594312292453675 --author tiktok

A bare id has no author in it, so the record's url cannot be exact. Pass --author to fill it in. Each comment record carries the text, the author, the create time, the digg count, and a reply_count that tells you whether a thread hangs under it:

tt comments 7106594312292453675 --author tiktok -o jsonl \
  | jq -r '[.author, .digg_count, .text] | @tsv'

Expand every thread inline

--replies walks each comment that has answers and emits those replies right after their parent, in one stream. A reply carries the parent's id in parent_id, so you can tell the layers apart:

tt comments 7106594312292453675 --author tiktok --replies -o jsonl \
  | jq -r 'select(.parent_id != "") | .text'

Replies under one comment

When you only want the answers under a single comment, replies takes the video and the comment id:

tt replies 7106594312292453675 7107000000000000000 --author tiktok

The first argument is the video (url or id), the second is the comment id from a comments record. The --author note is the same: pass it with a bare video id so the urls come out exact.

Top commenters at a glance

Comment records pipe into jq like any other. The most-digged comments on a video:

tt comments 7106594312292453675 --author tiktok -n 200 -o jsonl \
  | jq -s 'sort_by(-.digg_count) | .[:10] | .[] | "\(.digg_count)\t\(.text)"' -r