TikTok Profile Scraper

Scrape every video of a TikTok profile with all the data and ready-made metrics, plus a profile report: engagement, views compared with followers, best time to post, posting consistency and the videos that blew up, with the hashtags and sounds behind them. Need the words too? Turn on AI transcripts for any profile and get clean text plus SRT and VTT subtitles.

Run it once for a full history, or schedule it daily with Only new videos for a feed of fresh content.

You only pay for what you receive. Missing or private profiles, blocked requests and failed transcriptions are free.

Use cases

• Influencer vetting: check real engagement and how many followers actually watch before you pay a creator.
• Competitor tracking: follow rival brands and creators every day, and see which videos outperform and why.
• Content research: find the hashtags, sounds and posting hours behind a creator's best videos.
• Lead lists: collect bio, bio link, followers and verification for a list of creators.
• AI analysis: turn on transcripts and give a creator's whole history to ChatGPT, Claude or your own agent.
• Reporting: feed a dashboard or a Google Sheet with fresh numbers every morning, including how many views each video gained since yesterday.

What you get

One row per video: views, likes, comments, shares, saves, duration, date, description, hashtags, mentions, music, cover, carousel photos, ad flag, language, location, author avatar, engagement rate, views per follower, views per day, posting hour and weekday in your timezone. With AI transcripts on, each video is opened and the row also gets the transcript with timestamps, SRT/VTT subtitles, the hook (opening line), TikTok's own categories and search keywords, author stats and the text of carousel photos: the same fields as TikTok Transcript Scraper.

One profile report per creator:

Field	What it tells you
followers, following, totalLikes, videoCount, bio, bioLink, verified	the profile card
medianViews, avgViews	typical reach (the median ignores one-off viral hits)
avgEngagementRate, medianEngagementRate	how much the audience interacts (TikTok average: about 3.3% of views)
viewsToFollowers	median views divided by followers: 10-30% is typical on TikTok
medianLikesPerComment	median likes for each comment: shows how much the audience talks back
postsPerWeek, consistency	how often and how regularly they post
bestHour, bestWeekday	when their videos get the most engagement, in your timezone
outlierVideos, outlierHashtags, outlierSounds	videos with more than 3x the median views, and what they have in common
followerGrowth, followerGrowthRate, sinceLastReadDays	follower change since your previous run
videosDeclared, videosListed, smallSample	how many videos TikTok declares, how many were read, and a warning under 10 videos

The profile report is always computed on at least the latest 30 videos, even when you process fewer or when there are no new ones. All metrics use fixed, documented formulas (no AI guessing).

How to scrape a TikTok profile

1. Add creators in TikTok profiles: nasa, @nasa, a profile link, or a link to any of their videos.
2. Set Max videos per profile (newest first; the full history is available) and optionally Only videos after a date.
3. Optionally turn on AI transcripts to get what is said in each video, with ready SRT and VTT subtitles.
4. For a daily feed: turn on Only new videos since my last run and add an Apify schedule. What you already received is remembered in your own Apify account.
5. To track how videos grow: leave Only new videos off and schedule the run daily. Each video then shows what changed since your previous run: viewsGained, likesGained, commentsGained, sharesGained, savesGained, hoursSinceLastRun, viewsPerHourNow and velocityRatio (above 1 = the video is speeding up compared with its lifetime average, below 1 = slowing down). firstSeen is true the first time a video appears.

Example input

{
  "profiles": ["nasa", "@natgeo", "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews"],
  "maxVideos": 50,
  "transcribe": false,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "since": "2026-01-01",
  "timezone": "America/New_York"
}

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
Profile report	$0.01 (down to $0.007 on paid Apify plans)	per profile read
Video data	$0.003 (down to $0.001 on paid Apify plans)	per video: data and metrics
Run start	$0.005 per GB of memory	once per run: $0.01 with the default 2 GB (Apify counts the start per GB)
Missing or private profile, blocked by TikTok, spending limit reached	free

Optional extras

Event	Price	When
Transcribed video	$0.025	with AI transcripts on: video listened to and transcribed, first minute included; videos with no speech pay this too (no extra minutes)
Extra minute	$0.01	each minute after the first, rounded to the nearest (1:29 = 1 minute, 1:30 = 2)
Photo text	$0.005	per carousel photo read
Saved video file	$0.003	optional
Transcription failed, unavailable video, saved thumbnail	free

Free Apify plan: demo mode, up to 5 runs a month with 10 results each (one profile, 10 videos; with AI transcripts on, 3 videos up to 3 minutes), enough to try it. Any paid Apify plan removes the limit.

Transcribed videos and extra minutes get cheaper on paid Apify plans (down to $0.011 per video).

Examples:

• 10 creators × 100 videos, data only: 10 × $0.01 + 1,000 × $0.003 = about $3.10.
• The same with AI transcripts on one-minute videos: about $25.
• Afterwards, a daily Only new videos run costs a few cents per profile.

Example video row

One real row from a run on nasa (AI transcripts off). Image links are shortened here. The ...Gained fields come from a second run a minute after the first, so they are zero; with a daily schedule they show the day's growth.

{
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7689547576265149710",
  "videoId": "7689547576265149710",
  "author": "nasa",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-25T18:52:22Z",
  "durationSec": 121,
  "views": 75500,
  "likes": 3701,
  "comments": 192,
  "shares": 83,
  "saves": 234,
  "description": "There's plenty happening across NASA as September comes to a close!   🇺🇸 NASA’s Inspiration Tour heads to Arizona 🧑‍🚀 Crew-13 prepares to launch on 10/1 🔬 New discovery about life at the extremes ✈️ Studying the future of air mobility   Here's your NASA Minute!",
  "hashtags": "",
  "mentions": "",
  "musicTitle": "original sound - NASA",
  "musicAuthor": "NASA",
  "musicIsOriginal": false,
  "musicIsCopyrighted": false,
  "authorFollowers": 1853632,
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorBio": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible.✨",
  "authorVideoCount": 48,
  "authorTotalLikes": 9700000,
  "authorAvatar": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e5143…",
  "authorIsSeller": null,
  "isAd": false,
  "isAiGenerated": false,
  "language": "en",
  "locationCreated": null,
  "tiktokCategories": "",
  "tiktokSearchKeywords": "",
  "anchors": "",
  "width": 720,
  "height": 1280,
  "quality": "720p",
  "loudness": -25.8,
  "thumbnail": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-p-0068-tx/oQLtLFg…",
  "isSlideshow": false,
  "slideshowImages": "",
  "slideshowTitle": null,
  "engagementRate": 0.0527,
  "commentRate": 0.00254,
  "shareRate": 0.0011,
  "likeToCommentRatio": 19.3,
  "viewsPerFollower": 0.041,
  "viewsPerDay": 28320,
  "postHour": 18,
  "postWeekday": "Friday",
  "hashtagCount": 0,
  "hook": null,
  "wordsPerMinute": null,
  "talkRatio": null,
  "callToAction": "",
  "status": "data_only",
  "error": "",
  "viewsGained": 0,
  "likesGained": 0,
  "commentsGained": 0,
  "sharesGained": 0,
  "savesGained": 0,
  "hoursSinceLastRun": 0,
  "viewsPerHourNow": 0,
  "velocityRatio": 0,
  "firstSeen": false
}

Example profile report

{
  "type": "profile",
  "input": "nasa",
  "username": "nasa",
  "nickname": "NASA",
  "verified": true,
  "followers": 1807766,
  "following": 23,
  "totalLikes": 9542723,
  "videoCount": 47,
  "videosAnalyzed": 30,
  "videosDeclared": 47,
  "smallSample": false,
  "medianViews": 542850,
  "avgViews": 1113327,
  "avgEngagementRate": 0.0828,
  "medianEngagementRate": 0.0727,
  "viewsToFollowers": 0.3003,
  "medianLikesPerComment": 41.7,
  "postsPerWeek": 4.38,
  "consistency": 1,
  "bestHour": 16,
  "bestWeekday": "Wednesday",
  "outlierVideos": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7675478347278863629 (15.1x)",
  "outlierHashtags": "",
  "outlierSounds": "original sound - NASA, original sound, To the outer space",
  "followerGrowth": 305,
  "followerGrowthRate": 0.0002,
  "sinceLastReadDays": 0,
  "status": "ok",
  "error": ""
}

Result statuses and errors

Status	Meaning	Charged	What to do
ok	profile or video returned	yes
data_only	video data and metrics, no transcript (AI transcripts off)	yes
silent	no speech (music or silence); data and metrics returned	yes, as a transcribed video (first minute only)	turn on Transcribe songs too if you want lyrics
profile_private	the profile is private	no	nothing to read
profile_not_found	no profile with that name	no	check the spelling or paste the profile link
blocked	TikTok refused the request after 3 attempts from different addresses	no	run again later
transcription_failed	the speech-to-text service failed and TikTok had no captions	no	run again with Only new videos off
limit_reached	your spending limit was reached	no	raise the limit in the run options
free_plan_limit	free Apify plan: demo limit reached (runs, videos or video length)	no	subscribe to any paid Apify plan

Use with AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor)

AI assistants can run this scraper through the Apify MCP server, the bridge that lets them use Apify Store tools. Add it to your assistant with this address:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=apinator/tiktok-profile-scraper

Then paste a prompt like this one:

Use the TikTok Profile Scraper (apinator/tiktok-profile-scraper) on these creators:
<usernames>
Compare their median views, engagement rate and posting frequency,
compare engagement and views per follower, and tell me which one to work with.

Agents can also pay per run on their own with x402 or Skyfire, without an Apify account.

Use with n8n, Make and Zapier

• n8n: use the Apify node, choose Run an Actor and get dataset, pick apinator/tiktok-profile-scraper and pass the profiles as JSON input.
• Make and Zapier: use the Apify app, action Run an Actor, then Get dataset items.
• Daily feed: an Apify schedule with Only new videos on, plus a webhook to your flow when the run finishes.

FAQ

How far back can it go?

The full history of a profile is available: set Max videos per profile to a high number. On very old or large profiles a few videos may be missing (in our tests 93–100% of the declared videos were listed); the report shows both numbers.

What changes with AI transcripts off?

Data only mode reads everything from the profile list without opening each video: fast and cheap, but no transcript, no hook and no carousel detection (isSlideshow is empty).

Are pinned videos marked?

No: TikTok does not expose this without extra request signing.

How does "Only new videos" remember what I got?

It stores the list of videos already sent in a storage of your own Apify account. Nothing is kept on our side.

Is it legal to scrape TikTok?

This scraper reads only public profiles and videos, the same ones anyone can see without logging in. It does not collect private data such as emails or phone numbers. Profiles are personal data under laws like GDPR: if you store or use them, have a legitimate reason and follow the rules that apply to you. When in doubt, ask a lawyer.

This is an unofficial tool: it is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by TikTok or ByteDance. To keep the scraper reliable, each run sends us anonymous counts only (videos processed, videos blocked); never your input, links or results.

Single videos

To transcribe single TikTok videos or photo posts from a list of links, use TikTok Transcript Scraper.

Support and feedback

Something missing or not working? Open an issue on the Issues tab: we read every one. Feature requests are welcome too.