# TikTok Daily Posts Monitor - New Posts per Profile (`a.actors/tiktok-daily-posts`) Actor Check any list of TikTok profiles for posts from the last day or two and get full data for each: caption, timestamp, views, likes, comments, shares, cover and video address. Reports per profile whether the period was fully covered. No login, no proxy. - **URL**: https://apify.com/a.actors/tiktok-daily-posts.md - **Developed by:** [ApifyActors](https://apify.com/a.actors) (community) - **Categories:** Social media - **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.50 / 1,000 posts This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md. ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run. For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below. Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`). # README ## TikTok Daily Posts Monitor — new posts per profile Point it at a list of TikTok profiles, run it on a schedule, and get every post they published in the last day or two with full data: caption, exact timestamp, views, likes, comments, shares, saves, cover image, playable video address, hashtags, music, and the creator's follower count. No login. No account. **No proxy required** — which is most of why it is cheap enough to run hourly across a long watchlist. ### The thing no other TikTok scraper tells you Every post-collection tool silently returns *some* of a busy day. This one tells you when that happened. Each profile comes back with a verdict: | `windowCovered` | Meaning | |---|---| | `true` | The profile's public posts reach back past the start of your period, so nothing inside it was missed. | | `false` | The profile published more in the period than its public profile exposes. Some posts are missing — **run more often** to catch them. | If you are monitoring news accounts, that single flag is the difference between a dataset you can trust and one you merely hope is complete. ### What it is built for, and what it is not **Built for:** watching a set of profiles continuously — hourly, daily — and collecting what is new. Cheap per run, so frequent runs are the point. **Not built for:** pulling a creator's back catalogue. TikTok's public profile exposes only its most recent posts, so a request for "the last 6 months" cannot be satisfied from a profile by anyone, and this Actor says so rather than returning a quiet fraction. If you already hold the post links, **TikTok Post Data** reads posts of any age, including years back. ### Input | Field | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | **TikTok profiles** | list | One per line: `https://www.tiktok.com/@name`, `@name`, or `name`. Required. | | Look back (days) | integer | Default `2`. This Actor is built for 1–2 days; longer periods will often report `windowCovered: false`. | | Max posts per profile | integer | `0` = everything inside the period. | | Posts in parallel | integer | Default `4`. | ```json { "profiles": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews", "@cnn", "aljazeera"], "lookbackDays": 2 } ``` ### Output One row per post, plus a `SUMMARY` record with the per-profile verdict. ```json { "id": "7690902917741726979", "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews/video/7690902917741726979", "createTimeISO": "2026-09-29T10:31:06.000Z", "text": "The US Navy said the ship went through a \"rigorous\" cleaning…", "playCount": 837900, "diggCount": 43100, "commentCount": 1220, "shareCount": 1320, "collectCount": 2210, "isPhotoPost": false, "isPinned": false, "videoMeta": { "coverUrl": "…", "duration": 38, "downloadAddr": "…" }, "authorMeta": { "name": "bbcnews", "followers": 16400000, "hearts": 412000000 } } ``` ```json { "profiles": 3, "postsReturned": 21, "profilesWithIncompleteWindow": ["aljazeera"], "perProfile": [ { "handle": "bbcnews", "postsReturned": 9, "followers": 16400000, "windowCovered": true, "status": "covered" }, { "handle": "aljazeera", "postsReturned": 12, "followers": 5200000, "windowCovered": false, "status": "incomplete_window" } ] } ``` ### Pricing Pay per event, two of them: - **per post returned** — the posts you actually get. - **a small per-profile check** — because looking at a profile that posted nothing is still work. A quiet watchlist therefore costs very little, and a busy one scales with what it gives you. Profiles that cannot be read are reported as free rows and never charged. ### Limits, stated plainly - **A profile exposes only its most recent posts.** For a typical creator that covers a day or more comfortably; for a very busy news account a 2-day window may not fit, and you will be told via `windowCovered: false`. - **Deleted, private and region-restricted posts cannot be read** by anything without an account. - **Accounts that no longer exist** are reported as `account_unavailable` rather than as an empty result, so a stale watchlist is visible instead of silently shrinking. - **Video addresses are signed by TikTok and expire** within hours — download promptly if you need the file. - **Comments are not included**; that is a different Actor. ### FAQ **How often should I run it?** Whatever your appetite for freshness: every few hours is a good default for news accounts, daily for slower ones. If a profile keeps reporting `windowCovered: false`, run it more often or shorten the look-back. **Will it return the same post twice across runs?** Yes, if the post is still inside your look-back window — deduplicate on `id`. That is deliberate: re-reading a post also refreshes its view and like counts. **Do I need a proxy?** No. **Can I get a creator's older posts?** Not from a profile — see the limits above. Use **TikTok Post Data** with the post links if you have them. # Actor input Schema ## `profiles` (type: `array`): One profile per line - a profile URL (https://www.tiktok.com/@name), @name, or just name. ## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`): Return posts published within this many days. 1-2 days is what this Actor is built for; longer periods may exceed what a profile exposes, and each profile then reports windowCovered=false. ## `maxPostsPerProfile` (type: `integer`): 0 = every post found inside the period. ## `concurrency` (type: `integer`): How many posts to read at once. 4 is a good default. ## Actor input object example ```json { "profiles": [ "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews", "@cnn" ], "lookbackDays": 2, "maxPostsPerProfile": 0, "concurrency": 4 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `posts` (type: `string`): One item per post inside the period: id, URL, caption, timestamp, views, likes, comments, shares, saves, cover, video address, hashtags, music, photo-post flag, pinned flag and author stats. ## `summary` (type: `string`): Per profile: posts returned, follower count, and windowCovered - false means the profile published more in the period than its public profile exposes, so run more often to catch everything. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "profiles": [ "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews", "@cnn" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("a.actors/tiktok-daily-posts").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "profiles": [ "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews", "@cnn", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("a.actors/tiktok-daily-posts").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "profiles": [ "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews", "@cnn" ] }' | apify call a.actors/tiktok-daily-posts --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,a.actors/tiktok-daily-posts" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/MBPWMOAUULBUHEAgJ/builds/Vpz4bQHrjRiVhVB7J/openapi.json