I reverse engineered TikTok's login wall to watch any video without the app

TikTok makes you download the app or log in just to watch a video.

Turns out the videos themselves are public - they’re just buried behind redirects, tracking, and aggressive login prompts.

So I built See TikTok as a weekend project to let you watch TikToks instantly in your browser.

Just replace tiktok.com with seetiktok.com in any video link.

Example: https://tiktok.com/@user/video/12345 -> https://seetiktok.com/@user/video/12345

No login, no tracking, no app - just lets you watch the video. No more screen recording or downloading TikToks for your friend who doesn't have an account.

Would love to hear any feedback!

I actually made a shortcut on my phone to do this. Maybe I’m missing some complexity here, but my running assumption is that TikTok only forces you to the app when opening a shared link. If you remove the entirety of the query string in the url (match everything before the ?: ^.*?(?=\?)) it opens fine.

If someone sends me a link, I copy it, and click on the icon on my Home Screen - here’s the link to that shortcut (iOS specific):

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6d62250b944d40f292142d1cdcf...

Cool, but they will take you down because you used their trademarked name right in your domain. That gives them legal power to shut it down and take the domain.

Do yourself a favor and rename it before it becomes popular

It was super fun making this! Genuinely solves a problem for me lmao