Tik Tok Plug In

[cfleet1]

Is there anything like this available? 

[Kami]

Jan 27, 2021 16:30:57 GMT -8 cfleet1 said:

Is there anything like this available? 

Can you be more specific? What is the expected function of the plugin you seek?

[cfleet1]

Jan 27, 2021 20:11:16 GMT -8 Kami said:

Jan 27, 2021 16:30:57 GMT -8 cfleet1 said:

Is there anything like this available? 

Can you be more specific? What is the expected function of the plugin you seek?

Paste the link to the tik tok and it magically appears. Like youtube videos and tweets do. 

[Kami]

Jan 27, 2021 20:26:30 GMT -8 cfleet1 said:

Jan 27, 2021 20:11:16 GMT -8 Kami said:

Can you be more specific? What is the expected function of the plugin you seek?

Paste the link to the tik tok and it magically appears. Like youtube videos and tweets do. 

I will be honest, I'm not totally sure this is capable with plugins — the tiktok video URLs aren't parsed by the software and I am not entirely sure a plugin could change that to force a display.

I could be wrong, but you should make a request for it in the Plugin Request Board and let a plugin creator weigh in, because such a plugin doesn't exist as this time.

[cfleet1]

Jan 27, 2021 20:33:24 GMT -8 Kami said:

Jan 27, 2021 20:26:30 GMT -8 cfleet1 said:

Paste the link to the tik tok and it magically appears. Like youtube videos and tweets do. 

I will be honest, I'm not totally sure this is capable with plugins — the tiktok video URLs aren't parsed by the software and I am not entirely sure a plugin could change that to force a display.

I could be wrong, but you should make a request for it in the Plugin Request Board and let a plugin creator weigh in, because such a plugin doesn't exist as this time.

I really appreciate the input Kami. I figured it was something technical like that. Because im certain a plug in would have been made already. So many members keep posting links to tik toks and it just feels weird. lol. The greatest thing about PB's is the fact that you can just post links and they show up already formatted. I own a VB forum and the process is a pain in the butt for most everything. You have to wrap everything in BB codes etc. 

Thanks again. 

[Chris]

This plugin is now in the local support library as Auto-Embed Links (formerly TikTok Plugin)

Note:

TikTok has been reported by a user for being flagged as a trojan by Malwarebytes which is false but it is definitely considered suspect by Malwarebytes and many government entities for privacy incursions

perplexity.ai said:

Malwarebytes is not listing TikTok as a Trojan. Microsoft has released a detailed rundown of an issue, now fixed, which was potentially dangerous for users of TikTok. The problem, flagged as a “high-severity vulnerability” by Microsoft, required several steps chained together in order to function. Attackers making use of it could have compromised the user's account^[1]. The fixed exploit now lives on only as CVE-2022-28799: The TikTok application before 23.7.3 for Android allows account takeover^[1].

Malwarebytes has published articles about TikTok's excessive data collection and privacy concerns^[2][3][4]. In one article, Malwarebytes reported that Indiana sued TikTok and described it as a "Chinese Trojan Horse"^[3]. However, Malwarebytes did not list TikTok as a Trojan.

I will admit I am totally unfamiliar with Tik Tok and only been to their site to see what API's if any they offered after seeing this thread. They do support the oEmbed protocol so I created a rudimentary plugin employing that protocol to turn links dropped into a post into their embedded equivalents.

It's a newborn alpha version with no fancy bells and whistles and comes preconfigured to recognize tik tok links of the form https://www.tiktok.com/@{username}/video/{video ID}. If there are other forms a tik tok url can take then they can be added to the plugin's autoform using the first (preconfigured) entry as a template.^{The API only allows for the original URL}

Please offer some feedback so it can be improved upon (thumbnails, responsiveness, etc.) and also note that it is written to support any site that supports the oEmbed protocol not just Tik Tok.

Download TikTok Plugin^[v.0.0.3]
(Downloading and Importing Plugins [GUIDE])

FAQs:

1. Does this plugin work on mobile devices?
   Plugins do not work on mobile for the current version 5 platform but will when Proboards version 6 is released (no release date). If you have a mobile URL such as https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdPq1g8Y/ or https://m.tiktok.com/v/6726553443009383682 it will not work, you can however open that URL in a browser window on a desktop and TikTok will redirect that URL to the original that can then be used. Only URLs that use the following pattern are acceptable:
   https://www.tiktok.com/@{username}/video/{video ID}
   
   
2. Why is it still not working even though I am using the correct URL?
   Make sure the URL is an actual link (can be clicked and opened in the browser). Use the insert link button () to add the URL to your post if your forum is not configured to automatically create an hyperlink when you paste it in your post.
   
   
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Edits:

• v0.0.2 (7 February 2021): Removed "g" flag from regex to fix bug where subsequent Tik Tok links in a post got skipped due to progressive pattern matching start index
  
• v0.0.3 (5 February 2022): Ignore empty anchors causing duplicate embeds and added pagination support

[bigballofyarn]

Chris,

Is this still working on your forum? It's not automatically embedding TikTok links on mine. Hmmmmm.

[Chris]

Yes

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[bigballofyarn]

Chris ,

*Ponders*

People tried 8 different links, and none of them worked. Maybe I have to edit the site list.

[Chris]

What version ?

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Spoiler Alert: This image is irrelevant since it is not a publicly posted version

[bigballofyarn]

I clicked on your "Download and Test the New TikTok Plugin" link above, and there was only one option available to download. Perhaps it's an older version. I didn't see a TikTok plugin in the library.

[Chris]

Never mind, I reverted to the version posted in this thread and still got the embeds created as intended.
I would need to see any failure in action to identify the cause

EDIT: also note that if I configure my security software to block the domain then the coding will gracefully fail and leave the link as-is since it only replaces the link after a successful fetch from that domain.

[bigballofyarn]

The test thread I posted above is in a moderator only board. We put some test links in a test thread. Scroll to the bottom please.

Edit:

I removed my link for privacy.

[Chris]

It should be a clickable link not just text for it to convert

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[bigballofyarn]

Right. It isn't working on my forum. Should I have done anything differently?

Thanks for your help.

Edit:

I see you got it working as a guest. Hmmm.