Add 'executable_path' field to the 'api.create_sessions()' method

[Kkordik]

Adding executable_path can solve the issue:
EmptyResponseException: None -> TikTok returned an empty response
#1090

The example on how it works is in google colab:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/14FV3Ja3rmrubQ1FVLNhByTz1n_MPPlKA#scrollTo=h9tG2EQM_Ekd

Edited: Forgot to mention that to actually solve the issue you should install an older version of Google Chrome and specify its executable path when calling the create_sessions method.

Version	Result
115.0.5790.170	OK
121.0.6167.57	NG

(this solution and the table were provided by the author of the #1090 (comment))

[ekorian]

Are you sure you that this doesn't only changes your browser version and device profile used for rate limiting ? Don't you get the Empty Response error back at one point ?

[Kkordik]

Are you sure you that this doesn't only changes your browser version and device profile used for rate limiting ? Don't you get the Empty Response error back at one point ?

@ekorian , You are right, with these changes you can choose a browser (chromium).
Now I don't get the Empty Response. You can try it in the colab notebook, that I have mentioned earlier.

This solution is based on the comments:
comment 1
comment 2 where the author explained:

Upon further investigation of this issue, it was determined that the above code (using executable_path) does not work on some versions of Google Chrome.
Specifically, we found the following behavior.

Version | Result

-- | --
115.0.5790.170 | OK
121.0.6167.57 | NG

[ekorian]

I suspect that you get the Empty Response because of rate limiting policies at TikTok.
I get the same result if I use a different browser version, by using a different playwright version, and with no executable path: first it works, then Empty Response comes back again.

[Kkordik]

I suspect that you get the Empty Response because of rate limiting policies at TikTok. I get the same result if I use a different browser version, by using a different playwright version, and with no executable path: first it works, then Empty Response comes back again.

I don't think that the problem is in rate limiting policies. Because running the same example code, that retrieves 30 trending videos, all the time I was getting the Empty Response. And running the modified example code (colab link), that also retrieves 30 videos, I don't get the error.

If it was the rate limit (that is strange for 30 videos), it would not work in any case, would it?

Also changing the browser for FireFox as it is done in this pull request - #1129 workes for the author.

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[lhphat02]

merge pls! I really need it 🥺

[davidteather]

LGTM :)