TikTok Effect House [New App Request] about nevergreen HOT 3 CLOSED

Did some digging. My conclusion: There is no simple download link that's reconstructable just from the website.

One can get the File-Data using the same POST request as the downloadbutton does:

$uri = 'https://effecthouse.tiktok.com/api/web/download'
$blob = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri $uri -Body @{osType='windows';}
$blob | Out-File 'Installer.exe'  # Not sure what file ending...

(Note: I left out the entryPoint="101" parameter that the website also sends additionally to the osType)

This will give you a blob containing the installer for Windows, but not the download link.

Using Invoke-WebRequest one could get the binary data plus extra data and applying some lines of the Resolve-Uri CMDLet from Nevergreen will give you the download link, but at this point the setup has already been downloaded.

$a = Invoke-WebRequest -Method Post -Uri $uri -Body @{osType='windows';}
$a.BaseResponse.RequestMessage.RequestUri.AbsoluteUri

would result in something like

https://sf16-va.tiktokcdn.com/obj/eden-va2/olaa_ajlmml_zlp/ljhwZthlaukjlkulzlp/V383_ExternalRelease_0306/Effect_House_v3.8.3.30_101_Setup.exe

I don't think this approach is feasable for this project, unless one could send that post request without getting the contents and just analyze the BaseResponse to get the Download-URL. I wnated to share my findings anyway.

<form action="/api/web/download" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="osType" value="windows">
    <input type="hidden" name="entryPoint" value="101">
    <button class="css-5qkbk" type="submit" data-cy="windows-download">
    <div class="css-1db5cpb">
        <svg stroke="currentColor" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="0" viewBox="0 0 16 16"
            height="1em" width="1em" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
            style="--darkreader-inline-fill: currentColor; --darkreader-inline-stroke: currentColor;"
            data-darkreader-inline-fill="" data-darkreader-inline-stroke="">
                <path
                    d="M6.555 1.375 0 2.237v5.45h6.555V1.375zM0 13.795l6.555.933V8.313H0v5.482zm7.278-5.4.026 6.378L16 16V8.395H7.278zM16 0 7.33 1.244v6.414H16V0z">
                </path>
            </svg>
            <div class="css-1z070dx">ttep_download_page_download_pc_btn</div>
        </div>
    </button>
</form>
<div height="16px" class="css-lgu7xu"></div>
<div class="css-jp3si8"><span class="css-11od2d">ttep_download_banner_btn_mac</span></div>

from nevergreen.

Thanks, I'd forgotten I'd raised this.
We abandoned this software as it does not have any silent / unattended command line switches which made it impossible to deploy to users in an automated manner. If TikTok ever fix that we may revisit.

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Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, but looks like I can close it now anyway!

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