InitialFetchError: Failed to retrieve the initial room data. just facing this issue today.

[bakteribaik]

everytime i want to connect with different username/tiktok id, the program return InitialFetchError: Failed to retrieve the initial room data.

[danielhe4rt]

Same here.

[bakteribaik]

Okay, everything seems fine now. I'm not sure what was broken—whether it was on my side or the library's side. All I did was keep reconnecting whenever there was an error saying 'Can't get initial room data,' and suddenly, it just connected successfully

[mdaniel95]

Hello, I keep getting this error as well

[bakteribaik]

yeaa the error just come back

[MEN3F]

same

[vuongdev68]

Same :(( no one can fix it

[danielhe4rt]

Seems to be a problem at the TikTok protocol... Maybe they updated something there.

[Vixenlicious]

this is due to the way TikTok handles thier HTML for live, they changed the initial structure format so you must create a custom parser by dumping the source html of a live stream then searching for SIGI_STATE as that contains the room info, the data structure and format in Application/JSON

[xllecs]

@Vixenlicious thank you for your input. I've managed to manually extract the roomId from SIGI_STATE but it seems the library doesn't have an option to manually pass the id 🤔 am I missing something?

[wfzyx]

you can do it through the connect() method; but even so it still doesn't work apparently;

[bakteribaik]

I think TikTok has changed its protocol. Now, when you visit TikTok.com and try to view a user's video feed from their profile, you're required to complete a captcha. Since retrieving the room ID relies on extracting data from the HTML, I believe this method is now blocked. Developers zeody will need to either bypass the captcha or find an alternative way to obtain the room ID. But who knows? I'm just a script kiddy. That's just my observation 😅

[Birsan11]

Sunt curios să văd ce poți face, mas bucura să reușești

[IAMprodigi]

It's interesting because TikFinity continues to work. So, there has to be a way around it. Unless somehow TikFinity has a sanctioned API, and if that's the case how do the rest of us get that?