New to Python, help running a script

[Louis-P-WSU]

I'm quite new to python, I've only had experience doing simple introductory and intermediate coding courses in C++ from university.

Just trying to run this code I got from https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-collect-data-from-tiktok-tutorial-ab848b40d191

from TikTokApi import TikTokApi
import pandas as pd
api = TikTokApi()

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


# liked by a user
username = 'xxx'
n_videos = 100

liked_videos = api.userLikedbyUsername(username, count=n_videos)#, proxy=None, language='en', region='US')
liked_videos = [simple_dict(v) for v in liked_videos]

liked_videos_df = pd.DataFrame(liked_videos)
liked_videos_df.to_csv('{}_liked_videos.csv'.format(username), index=False)

It gives me this Exception

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exception                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-e76b67a3afcd> in <module>
      1 from TikTokApi import TikTokApi
      2 import pandas as pd
----> 3 api = TikTokApi()
      4 
      5 def simple_dict(tiktok_dict):

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\TikTokApi\tiktok.py in __init__(self, **kwargs)
     31             TikTokApi.__instance = self
     32         else:
---> 33             raise Exception("Only one TikTokApi object is allowed")
     34         logging.basicConfig(level=kwargs.get("logging_level", logging.WARNING))
     35         logging.info("Class initalized")

Exception: Only one TikTokApi object is allowed

I've installed pandas and the TikTokApi correctly I believe. im running the code out of Anaconda3.

Just trying to get a list of my friends liked videos so he can throw the url's into a batch video downloader.

Thanks for any help!

[davidteather]

Use api = TikTokApi.get_instance() instead. You might want to consider looking at this YouTube video that tells you how to setup the package as that article seems to be out of date.