diff --git a/src/you_get/extractors/tiktok.py b/src/you_get/extractors/tiktok.py
index 50780ac1..09a36bb8 100644
--- a/src/you_get/extractors/tiktok.py
+++ b/src/you_get/extractors/tiktok.py
@@ -5,16 +5,6 @@ __all__ = ['tiktok_download']
 from ..common import *
 
 def tiktok_download(url, output_dir='.', merge=True, info_only=False, **kwargs):
-    while True:
-        m = re.match('(https?://)?([^/]+)(/.*)', url)
-        host = m.group(2)
-        if host == 'www.tiktok.com':  # canonical URL reached
-            url = m.group(3).split('?')[0]
-            vid = url.split('/')[3]  # should be a string of numbers
-            break
-        else:
-            url = get_location(url)
-
     headers = {
         'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0',
         'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
@@ -22,7 +12,20 @@ def tiktok_download(url, output_dir='.', merge=True, info_only=False, **kwargs):
         'Connection': 'keep-alive'  # important
     }
 
+    m = re.match('(https?://)?([^/]+)(/.*)', url)
+    host = m.group(2)
+    if host != 'www.tiktok.com':  # non-canonical URL
+        html = getHttps(host, url, headers=headers, gzip=False)
+        url = r1(r'(https://www.tiktok.com/[^?"]+)', html)
+        # use canonical URL
+        m = re.match('(https?://)?([^/]+)(/.*)', url)
+        host = m.group(2)
+
+    url = m.group(3).split('?')[0]
+    vid = url.split('/')[3]  # should be a string of numbers
+
     html = getHttps(host, url, headers=headers)
+
     data = r1(r'window\[\'SIGI_STATE\'\]=(.*?);window\[\'SIGI_RETRY\'\]', html) or \
         r1(r'<script id="SIGI_STATE" type="application/json">(.*?)</script>', html)
     info = json.loads(data)