The trending feed
Read the logged-out recommend feed and slice it with the usual tools.
trending reads the feed TikTok serves a logged-out visitor, the same set of
videos the front page recommends with no account and no search. It returns video
records, the same shape video and posts return:
tt trending -n 30
It rides the signed API plane, so from a datacenter IP it may exit 4. See troubleshooting.
Slice it
The records are ordinary video records, so the usual flags and jq apply. The
most-played of the current feed:
tt trending -n 50 -o jsonl | jq -s 'sort_by(-.play_count) | .[:10] | .[].url' -r
The authors who show up most often:
tt trending -n 100 -o jsonl | jq -r .author | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
Just the links, to hand to another tool:
tt trending -n 50 -o url
As a discovery seed
The feed is also a starting point for the graph walk. tt discover --trending
seeds the walk from the trending videos and ranks the hottest nodes around them.
See discovering hot nodes.
tt discover --trending --top 25 -o table