I'm currently working on a TikTok crawler project that uses both selenium and scrapy
start_urls = ['https://www.tiktok.com/trending']
....
def parse(self, response):
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
from fake_useragent import UserAgent
ua = UserAgent()
user_agent = ua.random
options.add_argument(f'user-agent={user_agent}')
options.add_argument('window-size=800x841')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get(response.url)
Although the crawler successfully opens Chrome, it fails to load videos. View image here
The problem is persistent even when using Firefox browser. No video loading issue in Firefox
Similar issues arise when utilizing a basic script with Selenium
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.tiktok.com/trending")
time.sleep(10)
driver.close()
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.tiktok.com/trending")
time.sleep(10)
driver.close()