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Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by theturtletalks on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:29PM (#50296332)
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.
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by PigiVinci83 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:32PM (#50296389)
Thanks. GLM surprised me with the model's speed and accuracy when using the proper harness.
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by xnx on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:11PM (#50296904)
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.

Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by tccole on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:07PM (#50296008)
I went through the article and it links to a repo at the end but I received a 404
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by PigiVinci83 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:09PM (#50296036)
Author here, the repo is for paying readers but you can redeem the article for free (just tell me and I'll give you the access)
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by QuantumNomad_ on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:16PM (#50296137)
I would like that too if you can :)

GitHub https://github.com/Quantum-Nomad

Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by PigiVinci83 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:19PM (#50296172)
Invited
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by QuantumNomad_ on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:26PM (#50296294)
I don’t see any invite appearing in https://github.com/notifications?all=1
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by PigiVinci83 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:31PM (#50296368)
My bad, now you should
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by QuantumNomad_ on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:45PM (#50297878)
Thanks :)
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by redoxate on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:13PM (#50296090)
Me, thank you
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by PigiVinci83 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:14PM (#50296106)
write me at pier at thewebscraping.club your GH username
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by roessland on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:17PM (#50296150)
Is it possible to read the whole post, without sharing my email?
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by krackers on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:38PM (#50296457)
Well the blog _is_ called "the web scraping club", maybe that's part of the challenge?
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok a... by PigiVinci83 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:20PM (#50296198)
https://temp-mail.org/en/ Just write me your temporary email so I'll delete you from the mailing list