How do I update this code to v5? (creating lists with n videos by user)

[juppcamper]

Hey! I wrote my bachelor thesis on TikTok last year and after some trial and error (I have no idea of Python) I finally got a code working that created a file with n videos including all information like views, likes, etc. for each user of an array. Unfortunately it stopped working at some point. Now I'd like to use it again with v5, but I guess things have changed. Can someone help me to fix it?

from TikTokApi import TikTokApi
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
verifyFp = "XXX"
api = TikTokApi.get_instance(custom_verifyFp=verifyFp, use_test_endpoints=True)

allnames = ["radiojamfm","1live","bremennext","dasding","deinpuls","prosieben","wumms","dazn_de","chip_de","tieresucheneinzuhause","sport1news","chinagadgets","tagesschau","br24","jetzt.de","voguegermany","skysportde","sat1","utopiade","dw_berlinfresh","quarks","funke_zentralredaktion","forbesdach","nicetoknow","rtlktuell","dw_deutschlernen","newsup","spiegeltv","rheinischepost","duhastdiewahl","willkommen_zuhause","gripgarage","zeit","sportstudio.de"]

i = 0
length = len(allnames)
print(length)
n_videos = 1000

for length in allnames:
	username = allnames[i]
	user_videos = api.byUsername(username, count=n_videos)
	i+=1
	print(i)
	print(username)
	def simple_dict(tiktok_dict):
		to_return = {}

		to_return['user_name'] = tiktok_dict['author']['uniqueId']
		to_return['user_id'] = tiktok_dict['author']['id']
		to_return['video_id'] = tiktok_dict['id']
		to_return['video_desc'] = tiktok_dict['desc']
		to_return['video_time'] = tiktok_dict['createTime']
		to_return['video_length'] = tiktok_dict['video']['duration']
		to_return['video_link'] = 'https://www.tiktok.com/@{}/video/{}?lang=en'.format(to_return['user_name'], to_return['video_id'])
		to_return['n_likes'] = tiktok_dict['stats']['diggCount']
		to_return['n_shares'] = tiktok_dict['stats']['shareCount']
		to_return['n_comments'] = tiktok_dict['stats']['commentCount']
		to_return['n_plays'] = tiktok_dict['stats']['playCount']
		return to_return
user_videos = [simple_dict(v) for v in user_videos]
user_videos_df = pd.DataFrame(user_videos)
user_videos_df.to_csv('{}_videos.csv'.format(username),index=False)`

[davidteather]

Hey V6 is out but the main issue in your code for V5 is user_videos = api.byUsername(username, count=n_videos)
should be

user = api.user(username=username)
async for video in user.videos(count=n_videos):
    # do something