# TikTok Data Extractor - Videos & Profiles (`api_heros/tiktok-data-extractor`) Actor

Scrape TikTok videos, profiles, hashtags & search. Get plays, likes, shares, comments, bookmarks, captions, hashtags, music, subtitles, ad/sponsored flags, location, plus real creator stats (followers, following, total likes). Clean JSON. Residential-proxy ready.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/api\_heros/tiktok-data-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [API HEROS](https://apify.com/api_heros) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## TikTok Data Extractor

> Scrape TikTok **videos, profiles, hashtags & search** with full engagement metrics, **real creator stats**, captions, hashtags, music, subtitles, ad flags and location — delivered as clean, flat JSON. Built for scale on residential proxies.

### ✨ Why this Actor

- **Complete video data** — plays, likes, shares, comments, bookmarks, caption, hashtags, music, publish date, download & cover URLs.
- **Real creator stats** — followers, following, total likes, verification and bio, enriched from TikTok's own profile data (not estimates).
- **4 source types in one run** — profiles, single videos, hashtag pages and keyword search.
- **Anti‑bot resilient** — 3‑tier extraction (TikTok internal API → embedded page state → DOM), stealth browser fingerprinting, automatic session rotation and retries.
- **Ad & language detection** — flags sponsored/ad posts and auto‑detects content language.
- **Optional subtitles/captions.**
- **Clean flat JSON** — ready for spreadsheets, BI tools, ML pipelines or your API.

### 📦 What you get

| Group | Fields |
|---|---|
| Creator | `profile_name`, `profile_handle`, `profile_url`, `bio`, `profile_verified`, `profile_followers`, `profile_following`, `profile_total_likes` |
| Engagement | `plays`, `likes`, `shares`, `comments`, `bookmarks` |
| Content | `video_id`, `video_url`, `description`, `hashtags[]`, `language`, `music_title`, `music_author`, `duration_seconds`, `created_at`, `subtitles[]` |
| Flags & location | `is_ad`, `is_pinned`, `is_sponsored`, `location_created` |
| Media | `video_download_url`, `video_cover_url` |
| Meta | `scraped_at`, `source_type` |

### 🚀 Quick start

#### No code (Apify Console)

1. Open the Actor, paste TikTok URLs or search terms into **Start URLs**.
2. Set **Max videos**, click **Start**.
3. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

#### Via API

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR_ID/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"], "maxItems": 50 }'
```

#### Via Apify SDK (JavaScript)

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('YOUR_ACTOR_ID').call({
    startUrls: ['https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok', 'https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dance', 'funny cats'],
    maxItems: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
```

### ⚙️ Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` | string\[] | — | Profile / video / hashtag URLs or search terms (required) |
| `maxItems` | int | `50` | Total videos to return (required) |
| `maxItemsPerProfile` | int | `30` | Cap per source |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Residential | Proxy settings (Apify Proxy recommended) |
| `downloadSubtitles` | bool | `false` | Extract captions/subtitles |
| `includeProfileDetails` | bool | `true` | Add creator follower/like stats |
| `scrollPaginationCount` | int | `5` | Scroll loads per page (~15-20 videos each) |
| `customMsDelay` | int | `2500` | Delay between actions (ms) |

#### Supported URLs

```
https://www.tiktok.com/@username          → Profile
https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123    → Single video
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dance          → Hashtag
funny cats                                → Search (auto-detected)
```

### 📤 Output — real example

```json
{
  "profile_name": "TikTok",
  "profile_handle": "@tiktok",
  "profile_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok",
  "bio": "One TikTok can make a big impact",
  "profile_verified": true,
  "profile_followers": 94980390,
  "profile_following": 0,
  "profile_total_likes": 462128553,
  "likes": 3027,
  "shares": 151,
  "plays": 160100,
  "comments": 680,
  "bookmarks": 184,
  "video_id": "7666214645006421278",
  "video_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7666214645006421278",
  "description": "for 39 days, the For You Feed made the whole world feel like next door 🏆⚽",
  "hashtags": [],
  "language": "eng",
  "music_title": "original sound - TikTok",
  "created_at": "2026-07-24T21:48:21.000Z",
  "is_ad": false,
  "is_pinned": false,
  "is_sponsored": false,
  "location_created": null,
  "video_download_url": "https://v16-webapp-prime.tiktok.com/video/tos/...",
  "video_cover_url": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-26T22:19:56.135Z",
  "source_type": "profile_api"
}
```

Hashtag and ad detection in action (another real record):

```json
{ "hashtags": ["TechTok", "TikTokAlgorithm", "ForYouPage", "LearnOnTikTok"], "is_ad": true }
```

### 🛡️ Reliability & anti‑bot

1. **API interception (primary)** — captures TikTok's internal JSON responses for the cleanest, fullest data.
2. **Embedded state fallback** — parses `__UNIVERSAL_DATA_FOR_REHYDRATION__` / `SIGI_STATE` if the API path is unavailable.
3. **DOM fallback** — last‑resort scraping of visible elements.
   Plus stealth fingerprinting, residential‑proxy session rotation, and automatic retries on 403/429/CAPTCHA.

### 🔌 Proxy

TikTok aggressively blocks datacenter IPs. **Use Apify Residential proxy** (the default) for reliable results. Advanced users can supply their own proxies via `proxyConfiguration.proxyUrls`.

### ⚡ Performance

\~8–20 videos/minute depending on `customMsDelay` and proxy latency. Raise `scrollPaginationCount` and `maxItemsPerProfile` for large profiles.

### 💰 Pricing

- **Free trial** — first **100 videos free**.
- **Pay‑as‑you‑go** — **$2 per 1,000 videos** (~$0.002/video); pay only for what you scrape.
- **Monthly** — Starter **$29/mo** (5,000 videos), Professional **$99/mo** (30,000 + subtitles + priority), Enterprise **custom** (unlimited, dedicated proxies, SLA).

> Set pricing in Apify Console → your Actor → **Monetization**. Apify Residential proxy usage is billed by Apify.

### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need my own proxies?** No — Apify Residential proxy is the default and recommended.
**Why are some fields empty?** TikTok doesn't always return every field (e.g. photo carousels have no `video_download_url`). `source_type` shows which extraction tier produced the record.
**Can I scrape a whole profile?** Yes — raise `maxItemsPerProfile` and `scrollPaginationCount`.
**Is this compliant?** Designed for legitimate research/analytics. You must comply with TikTok's ToS, GDPR and CCPA.

### 📞 Support

Issues? Open the Actor's **Issues** tab or email support@yourcompany.com. Licensed under Apache‑2.0.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

TikTok profile URLs, video URLs, hashtag URLs, or plain search terms. All can be mixed in one run.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of videos to return across all start URLs.

## `maxItemsPerProfile` (type: `integer`):

Cap per profile / hashtag / search so one source can't consume the whole budget.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxies are strongly recommended for TikTok. On the Apify platform just keep Apify Proxy enabled.

## `downloadSubtitles` (type: `boolean`):

Extract caption/subtitle tracks where available.

## `includeProfileDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Add followers, following and total likes for each video's creator.

## `scrollPaginationCount` (type: `integer`):

How many infinite-scroll loads to perform on profile/hashtag/search pages (~15-20 videos each).

## `customMsDelay` (type: `integer`):

Human-like delay between page actions. Higher = gentler on TikTok.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7106594312292453675",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dance",
    "funny cats"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxItemsPerProfile": 30,
  "downloadSubtitles": false,
  "includeProfileDetails": true,
  "scrollPaginationCount": 5,
  "customMsDelay": 2500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

All scraped TikTok video records (open the table view).

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("api_heros/tiktok-data-extractor").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("api_heros/tiktok-data-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"
  ]
}' |
apify call api_heros/tiktok-data-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=api_heros/tiktok-data-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/gzUViZARB8aslcdZW/builds/MQpeShpBqMrsYgMGk/openapi.json