Java get URL from Tiktok

I want to get the code of a website. In this case it's a tiktok page.

My code looks like this:

  try {
        URL url = new URL("https://www.tiktok.com/@petyyyyyy?lang=de");
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));

        String inputLine;

        while((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(inputLine);
        }

    } catch (MalformedURLException me) {
        System.out.println(me);
    } catch (IOException ioe) {
        System.out.println(ioe);
    }

This works perfect for any normal website. The problem is that it doesnt' work with this tiktok site.

I think it's because there is an @ in the URL and Java has a problem with it.

Any help appreciated

You can try something like that:

try {
        URL url = new URL("https://www.tiktok.com/%40petyyyyyy?lang=de");
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        connection.setRequestProperty ("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0");
        
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));

        String inputLine;

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(inputLine);
        }

    } catch (MalformedURLException me) {
        System.out.println(me);
    } catch (IOException ioe) {
        System.out.println(ioe);
    }

It looks like Tiktok is blocking requests to the user page.

Workaround:

In my case, I just wanted to get the follower amount from the site.

I simply use another website, i.e. tiktok follower counter