1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using DownDouyin (https://downdouyin.com), you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and our Copyright & DMCA Policy. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, please discontinue use of the website immediately.
2. Description of Service & Permitted Personal / Creator Use Only
DownDouyin is a technical web utility and public media archiver that parses publicly accessible share links from Douyin (抖音) and streams available media formats to your browser. The service is provided strictly for:
- Personal, Non-Commercial Offline Viewing: Time-shifting publicly shared videos for personal offline reference or language study.
- Authorized Creator Archival: Backing up your own original short-form videos, audio tracks, and photo carousels that you published on Douyin.
- Expressly Licensed or Fair Use Research: Archiving reference clips where you hold written permission from the copyright owner or for lawful transformative commentary, criticism, or educational instruction under applicable Fair Use principles (see our guide: How Content Creators Can Repurpose Short-Form Videos Safely Under Fair Use).
3. Intellectual Property & User Responsibility
- All videos, music tracks, images, avatars, and text descriptions fetched through DownDouyin remain the sole intellectual property of their respective creators and Douyin.
- You are solely responsible for ensuring that you have the legal right or permission from the content owner before downloading, saving, or redistributing any media obtained through this tool.
- You may not use DownDouyin to infringe copyright, strip creator attribution for commercial re-uploading, pirating paid content, or violating the Terms of Service of Douyin.
4. Prohibited Conduct & Abuse Prevention
You agree not to use automated bots, scrapers, or high-frequency scripts to flood /api/parse, /api/download, /api/proxy, or /api/zip, or attempt to bypass private account restrictions, paywalls, or DRM protections.
5. Disclaimer of Warranties & Limitation of Liability
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