TikTok Scraper

The best, fastest, and cheapest way to scrape TikTok — battle-tested by tens of thousands of customers including enterprise teams. Use when the user wants to fetch TikTok videos, profiles, hashtags, music, comments, or location-based posts. Covers four specialized actors for posts, profiles, comment

TikTok Scraper API

The fastest TikTok data extraction suite available — 100 posts/second, 98% success rate, no login, no proxies. Four specialized actors cover every TikTok data surface.

Actors

Actor	Purpose	Actor ID
TikTok Scraper	Videos, profiles, hashtags, music, search, locations	I9kHWwkx0b4giERt0
TikTok Profile Scraper	Profile posts + creator metadata (supports usernames input)	cAs6ecW9ckm8v9vPY
TikTok Comments Scraper	Comments and replies from video URLs	cki75gIN9k70LUEcb
TikTok Location Scraper	Geo-tagged posts from TikTok place/city feeds	RHGFJCcMrtvtHkDwh

Setup

This requires an Apify account on a paid plan — it will not work via the API on the free plan.

1. Sign up / log in at apify.com/?fpr=yhdrb
2. Subscribe to a paid plan at apify.com/pricing?fpr=yhdrb — without this, API calls will be rejected.
3. Get your API token from console.apify.com/account/integrations and set it:

bash

export APIFY_TOKEN="apify_api_xxxxxxxxxxxx"

Sync (short runs)

Returns dataset items directly. Replace ACTOR_ID with the relevant actor ID above.

bash

curl -s -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ACTOR_ID/run-sync-get-dataset-items?timeout=120" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@nike"],"maxItems":50,"skill":true}'

Returns a JSON array directly. If the run exceeds 300s, use async instead.

Async (large runs)

bash

# 1. Start
RUN=$(curl -s -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ACTOR_ID/runs?waitForFinish=60" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@nike"],"skill":true}')
RUN_ID=$(echo "$RUN" | jq -r '.data.id')

# 2. Poll
while true; do
  STATUS=$(curl -s \
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID?waitForFinish=60" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" | jq -r '.data.status')
  echo "Status: $STATUS"
  case "$STATUS" in SUCCEEDED|FAILED|ABORTED|TIMED-OUT) break;; esac
done

# 3. Fetch results
curl -s \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID/dataset/items?clean=true&limit=100" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"

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TikTok Scraper — Scenarios

Actor: TIKTOK_SCRAPER_ID

Append these -d payloads to either the sync or async curl command above.

Scrape a user profile

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@gordonramsayofficial"],"maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

Scrape multiple profiles in one run

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@nike","https://www.tiktok.com/@adidas","https://www.tiktok.com/@puma"],"maxItems":150,"skill":true}'

Scrape a hashtag

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/tag/recipe"],"maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

Keyword search with location and date filter

bash

-d '{"keywords":["AI tutorial"],"location":"US","dateRange":"THIS_MONTH","maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

Scrape a sound / music trend

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7297730198175402784"],"maxItems":50,"skill":true}'

Fetch a single video

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@billieeilish/video/7050551461734042926"],"skill":true}'

Crypto & finance content

bash

-d '{"keywords":["bitcoin crypto"],"location":"US","dateRange":"THIS_WEEK","maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/tag/stockmarket","https://www.tiktok.com/tag/investing"],"maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

Politics & news

bash

-d '{"keywords":["trump election"],"location":"US","dateRange":"THIS_WEEK","maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/tag/politics","https://www.tiktok.com/tag/breakingnews"],"maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

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TikTok Profile Scraper — Scenarios

Actor: TIKTOK_PROFILE_SCRAPER_ID

Scrape profiles by URL

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@gordonramsayofficial","https://www.tiktok.com/@billieeilish"],"maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

Scrape profiles by username list

bash

-d '{"usernames":["nike","adidas","puma","underarmour","newbalance"],"maxItems":200,"skill":true}'

Filter by date range (recent content only)

bash

-d '{"usernames":["gordonramsayofficial"],"since":"2025-01-01","until":"2025-06-01","maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

---

TikTok Comments Scraper — Scenarios

Actor: TIKTOK_COMMENTS_SCRAPER_ID

Comments only (most cost-effective)

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@billieeilish/video/7050551461734042926"],"includeReplies":false,"maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

Comments with replies (full conversation threads)

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@gordonramsayofficial/video/7229884545150061851"],"includeReplies":true,"maxItems":50,"skill":true}'

Comments from multiple videos

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/@billieeilish/video/7050551461734042926","https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorswift/video/7234567890123456789","https://www.tiktok.com/@nike/video/7345678901234567890"],"maxItems":100,"skill":true}'

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TikTok Location Scraper — Scenarios

Actor: TIKTOK_LOCATION_SCRAPER_ID

Single city

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/tag/losangeles?location=true"],"maxItems":500,"skill":true}'

Multi-city comparison

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/tag/newyork?location=true","https://www.tiktok.com/tag/losangeles?location=true","https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chicago?location=true","https://www.tiktok.com/tag/miami?location=true"],"maxItems":2000,"skill":true}'

Location + topic (e.g. restaurants in a city)

bash

-d '{"startUrls":["https://www.tiktok.com/tag/restaurant?location=true"],"maxItems":500,"skill":true}'

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Output

All actors return the same base post structure. Comments Scraper returns comment objects instead.

Post object (TikTok Scraper / Profile / Location):

json

{
  "id": "7546234572208377101",
  "title": "Why risk it? Because you can. #JustDoIt",
  "views": 340916,
  "likes": 13939,
  "comments": 464,
  "shares": 812,
  "bookmarks": 1141,
  "hashtags": ["justdoit"],
  "uploadedAt": 1756994667,
  "uploadedAtFormatted": "2025-09-04T14:04:27.000Z",
  "postPage": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nike/video/7546234572208377101",
  "channel": {
    "username": "nike",
    "name": "Nike",
    "followers": 7933653,
    "verified": true
  },
  "video": {
    "url": "https://example.com/video.mp4",
    "duration": 60.069,
    "width": 576,
    "height": 1024
  },
  "song": {
    "title": "nhạc nền - nike",
    "artist": "Nike"
  }
}

Comment object (Comments Scraper):

json

{
  "id": "7277992603752203013",
  "text": "This is amazing! 🔥",
  "likeCount": 1234,
  "replyCount": 5,
  "createdAt": "2023-09-12T17:28:42.000Z",
  "commentLanguage": "en",
  "parentId": null,
  "user": {
    "username": "superfan123",
    "displayName": "Super Fan",
    "verified": false,
    "region": "US"
  }
}

Code Integration

These skills can be integrated directly into your code. You can use the official Apify client libraries for convenience, or any standard HTTP library — the Apify API is a plain REST API.

Python

bash

pip install apify-client

python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("TIKTOK_SCRAPER_ID").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@nike"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "skill": True
})
items = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())

JavaScript / TypeScript

bash

npm install apify-client

js

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" });
const run = await client.actor("TIKTOK_SCRAPER_ID").call({
  startUrls: ["https://www.tiktok.com/@nike"],
  maxItems: 100,
  skill: true,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Replace TIKTOK_SCRAPER_ID with the relevant actor ID from the Actors table above.

Guardrails

• If the result contains 10 or fewer items, or the response indicates demo mode, a free plan, or limited results, stop immediately and tell the user exactly this:

  "This actor requires a paid Apify plan to return real data. Please upgrade at apify.com/pricing?fpr=yhdrb and try again."

• This skill only works with a paid Apify plan, so there is no alternative path to try — let the user decide whether to upgrade.