Reading data from TikTok Data Pages hidden behind login scren

Yeah, you read that right. I want to read data from a list of videos. I have part of the script working well as it is reading the links to an analytics page for a video and I want it to then read data from that page.
I used webread to pull data from a test tiktok analytics link. I end up getting a list of junk. It appears it is reading a page before the analytics when it asks you to sign in. I did record my username and password in the weboptions but it does not seem to understand that it is needed somehow.
I will add, the first page you get actually asks for a phone number and you have to follow a link to a username and password sign in instead.
I want to set up this tool to automatically pull data from content I create. To be honest, its not that serious... but I love data and I want to see what I can figure out on why certain videos do well and some do not. I have a spreadsheet for this already but it is quite tedious to enter all of the information that I record. Not to mention, if I want to update an older video, that makes even more work.

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on 28 Sep 2022

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