Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok app for less than $20

PigiVinci83 19 points 15 comments October 29, 2026
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tccole

I went through the article and it links to a repo at the end but I received a 404

roessland

Is it possible to read the whole post, without sharing my email?

theturtletalks

This is extraordinary reverse engineering. I particularly liked the part about using their own signer but outside of the apk. LLMs have effectively taken the Ads moat for so many of these companies. I can just have an AI rebuild their website to a UI I like using this reverse engineered mobile API.

xnx

What data does this method retrieve? yt-dlp already gets a lot of metadata like: duration, title, description, timestamp, view_count, like_count, repost_count, comment_count, save_count, etc.

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