Douyin Downloader

Professional Douyin downloader with:

• Short link resolution
• Watermark-free video download (playwm -> play)
• Audio-only download
• Cover image download
• Exponential-backoff retries
• Chunked streaming download with progress
• Logging to logs/app.log
• CLI + optional Flask web app

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• requests
• Optional web mode: Flask

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

CLI Usage

Run with prompt:

python main.py

Run with arguments:

python main.py "https://v.douyin.com/xxxxx/" --mode video
python main.py "https://v.douyin.com/xxxxx/" --mode audio
python main.py "https://v.douyin.com/xxxxx/" --mode cover

Flask Web App

Local run:

python app.py

Then open http://127.0.0.1:5000.

Railway / Render Deployment

This repo includes:

• Procfile
• runtime.txt
• requirements.txt

Recommended start command:

gunicorn app:app --bind 0.0.0.0:$PORT --workers 2 --timeout 120