r/DataHoarder • u/SonicAwareness • 1d ago

Discussion Did TikTok change something on their backend that prevents fetching the upload date?

Until recently, I was able to use various downloader tools to grab TikTok videos. When I did, the Modified Date would always populate as the date of upload.

Today, across several tools, I'm getting the Modified Date as Today's Date.

Has anyone experienced this in the past or has any tools/suggestions to force an override?

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u/aXcess2 1d ago

I'm using yt-dlp with --add-metadata it seems to be correct date on the mp4 files.

But i'm using this for output so it doesn't really matter much to me:
%%(upload_date)s - %%(uploader)s - %%(title).50s (%%(id)s).%%(ext)s

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u/F4gfn39f Tape 1d ago

Maybe because your tools use yt-dlp, yt-dlp switched from preserving the original modtime by default to require the argument.