Report: 5.6 billion TikTok videos scraped and posted free on Hugging Face
What Decrypt reported
Decrypt reported on October 6, 2026 that an unknown party scraped 5.6 billion TikTok videos and published the resulting data on Hugging Face, where it is available for free.
Hugging Face is a platform where developers share AI models and datasets, meaning collections of information that can be used to train or test software.
Scraping means collecting content automatically from a website, in this case TikTok videos.
What the headline states
- The collection is said to cover 5.6 billion TikTok videos.
- The data was posted on Hugging Face.
- The data is available at no cost.
What is not clear from the available material
The supplied source contains only the headline, the publishing date, and the article link. It does not identify who scraped the videos, when the scraping took place, how it was done, what exactly the dataset includes, or how TikTok responded.
The article link uses the phrase "5 billion" while the headline says 5.6 billion. The available material does not explain the difference.
Nothing in the supplied material states whether the dataset is still online or whether anyone has raised legal or privacy concerns about it. Newisty has not confirmed any of those points independently.
Sources
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