TikTok Post Data — full metadata by URL or ID

You already know which posts you care about. This Actor turns that list into data.

Give it TikTok post links, bare post ids, or short vm.tiktok.com links — mixed together, in any order — and get one row per post: caption, exact timestamp, views, likes, comments, shares, saves, cover image, playable video address, duration, hashtags, music, whether it is a photo slideshow, and the creator's follower and total-likes counts.

No login. No account. No proxy required.

What this does that profile scrapers don't

• Any post age. A post from 2020 returns exactly as completely as one from this morning. Profile scrapers read from the top of a profile and stop; if you already have the link, age is irrelevant here.
• A bare post id is enough. 7690868110672284950 works on its own — you do not need to know which creator posted it. Useful when your ids came from a CSV, an export, or another tool.
• Photo posts (slideshows) are included and flagged with isPhotoPost, not skipped.
• Re-run it to refresh numbers. Views, likes and shares are read live, so running the same list a week later gives you the new figures — which is how you track how a post performed over time.
• You are never charged for a post TikTok won't serve. Deleted, private and region-blocked posts come back as free error rows that say which it was.

Input

Field	Type	Description
Post URLs or IDs	list	One post per line. Full links (/video/… or /photo/…), bare ids, or vm./vt.tiktok.com short links. Required.
Maximum posts	integer	Stop after this many inputs. 0 = all of them.
Posts in parallel	integer	Default 5. Raise for long lists; lower it if posts start failing.
Proxy	object	Optional, and off by default — this Actor does not need one.

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews/video/7690902917741726979",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@qudsn/video/6882749214040935681",
    "7690868110672284950"
  ],
  "concurrency": 5
}

Output

One row per post. Real sample, trimmed:

{
  "id": "6882749214040935681",
  "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@qudsn/video/6882749214040935681",
  "createTimeISO": "2020-10-12T14:08:11.000Z",
  "createTime": 1602511691,
  "text": "رسالة حاج أردني من الكرك حول التطبيع …",
  "playCount": 33700,
  "diggCount": 1430,
  "commentCount": 65,
  "shareCount": 219,
  "collectCount": 84,
  "isPhotoPost": false,
  "hashtags": ["شاهد", "الأردن"],
  "videoMeta": {
    "coverUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/…",
    "originalCoverUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/…",
    "duration": 41,
    "downloadAddr": "https://v16m.tiktokcdn.com/…"
  },
  "musicMeta": { "playUrl": "…", "musicName": "original sound", "musicAuthor": "qudsn" },
  "authorMeta": {
    "name": "qudsn", "nickName": "قدس نيوز", "id": "6595249335095607301",
    "followers": 919500, "hearts": 12900000, "videos": 11900
  }
}

A post that cannot be read produces a free row instead:

{ "input": "https://www.tiktok.com/@name/video/1234567890123456789",
  "id": "1234567890123456789",
  "error": "unavailable:10204",
  "errorDescription": "TikTok does not serve this post - it is deleted, private or region-restricted." }

The run also writes a SUMMARY record: posts requested, returned, unavailable, unreadable.

Pricing

Pay per event. You are charged once per post returned — never for an input that failed, and never for the error rows. A small Actor-start event covers the first seconds of compute on each run, as Apify's default.

Limits, stated plainly

• This Actor does not discover posts. It reads posts you already identify. If you need to find a creator's posts first, use a TikTok profile or hashtag scraper, then feed the URLs here.
• Deleted, private and region-restricted posts cannot be read by anything without an account, and they are reported rather than guessed at. They are free.
• Video addresses are signed by TikTok and expire within hours. Download promptly if you need the file; the cover image URLs are longer-lived but not permanent either.
• Comments are not included. That is a different job and a different Actor.
• Very long lists are read in parallel but politely; a list of thousands will take minutes, not seconds, and that pacing is deliberate — it is why the success rate stays high without a proxy.

FAQ

Where do I get the post URLs? Anywhere: a spreadsheet, a media-monitoring export, a profile or hashtag scraper, or links people sent you. Bare ids work too.

Can I use it to track a post over time? Yes — that is a common use. Run the same list on a schedule and each run returns the current view, like, comment and share counts, so you can see how a post accumulated them.

Do I need a proxy? No. Leave the proxy field alone. The option exists only for accounts whose network needs one.

What happens with a link that isn't a TikTok post? It is reported as not_a_tiktok_post in a free row, and the rest of your list still runs.

Does it work on /photo/ slideshow posts? Yes, including their cover images. isPhotoPost tells you which rows are slideshows; those have no video file, so downloadAddr is empty for them.