Tiktok and Discord don’t mesh well together. Unlike Youtube, which allows for playing videos in-app on Discord, Tiktok links get automatically converted to images of the thumbnail. This means that in order to view Tiktok links your friends send you on Discord, you necessarily have to open a new window to go to the source site.
What’s worse, mobile Discord links often end up opening a “browser within Discord”. But instead of letting you view the link there, Tiktok’s website mobile-detection kicks in and prompts you to download the TikTok app! And the cherry on top is that even if you have the app, you’re sent to the App Store.
Well, I got tired of this and decided to write a Discord bot that automatically fetches the TikTok video and uploads it as playable media as a Discord message. No more popups, external links, or redirects! All you need to do is send a message whose content is only a TikTok link, and the bot will detect and replace it with a playable media message!
Todo
- Reconfigure the caching mechanism to detect if Discord has removed the media link from their internal database
- Add
<and>around the TikTok link, which should disable Discord’s automatic embed - Look into APIs or
curl+ HTML parsing to extract basic info like- Video author
- Likes
- Views