How to Export Your TikTok Saved Videos

The whole thing happens inside the TikTok app, four taps deep. Open your profile, tap the menu, then Settings and privacy, then Account, then Download your data. That screen is where you choose the format, request the file, and later collect it.

There is deliberately no export control on the Favorites tab itself, so anything promising a one-tap favorites export outside this screen is working around TikTok rather than with it. The data request is the supported route, and it returns your whole list rather than whatever happened to be on screen.

TikTok offers the export in two formats. JSON is the structured one: every entry is a labeled field, so a spreadsheet, a script, or a plain find-and-copy pass can pull the video links straight out. TXT is a readable transcript of the same activity, which is fine if you only intend to skim it.

Pick JSON. It costs nothing extra to request, it opens in any text editor exactly like the TXT file does, and it is the version that stays useful the moment you want to do something with the list instead of just reading it.

Requesting is instant; preparing is not. TikTok's own help page, Requesting your data, says preparing the file may take a few days. There is no way to speed that up, so request it before you need it rather than the evening you sit down to dig.

The second number matters more, because it is the one that catches people out: once the file is ready, it stays available for four days. Miss that window and the request has to be made again from scratch. Turn on the notification, or set yourself a reminder for a few days out, and download it the day it appears.

The export is your whole account, not just the saves: profile details, settings, activity, and messages, grouped into sections. The part you came for is the activity section, which holds your favorite videos alongside the videos you liked.

Those lists are exactly what you would expect from an activity log rather than a media archive: each entry is a date and a link to the video, not the video file itself. That is enough, because a link is all you need to look a post back up or to run it through a track identifier.

Nothing in the export names the music. TikTok does not store a track ID against your saves, so identifying what is actually playing in each of those videos is a separate step you do afterwards.

The short way is to skip the copying entirely and hand the file over: import your TikTok export and CrateWire pulls the video links out itself. The import page opens on Instagram, so switch it to the TikTok tab first; it takes the ZIP TikTok hands you, the JSON file inside it, or the TXT version, and it shows you Favorites and liked videos as two separate lists so you can bring in one or both.

Got a public collection instead? Skip the data request entirely and import a TikTok collection straight from its share link. That route only covers collections you have made public, since Favorites and liked videos have no link to share, but for a crate you curated on purpose it is instant rather than a few days' wait.

If you would rather do it by hand, no tool is needed for that either. Open the file in any text editor, find the activity section, and copy the link values out. If you asked for JSON you can also drop the file into a spreadsheet or a two-line script and get a clean column of URLs, which is worth doing once your saves run into the hundreds.

Keep the dates. A saved-videos list read newest-first is a decent record of what you were digging for at the time, and it makes the list far easier to work through in sittings.

A column of links is only worth having if you can turn it into track names, and the whole file goes in at once: import your TikTok export (on the import page's TikTok tab) and every video you picked gets read the same way a single paste does: the sound TikTok tagged, then the caption, then the comments, then the audio itself. Tracks land while the scan is still running, so you can start digging before it finishes.

Without an account there is still a route, one link at a time. Paste a video link into the TikTok song finder, which runs those same checks. It gives 3 free scans a day when capacity allows, and Digger includes 100 post IDs a month. If you want the method behind those checks first, read how to find a song from a TikTok.

The same page takes your Instagram saved posts if you dig on both, and every import you run keeps its own results page, so a list you brought in months ago is still there to go back through.