TikTok Creative Center Scraper: Top Ads, No Login

TikTok Creative Center Scraper: Top Ads, No Login

Scrape TikTok Creative Center Top Ads for any of 61 countries with no login, no cookies and no API key. Every row is one top performing auction ad with its brand, ad title, likes, comments, shares, click through rate, budget tier, industry, campaign objective, landing page when TikTok publishes it, the cover and every video rendition as signed URLs, plus the exact time those URLs expire. TikTok shows an anonymous visitor one list of 20 ads per filter combination, so the Actor sweeps sort orders, periods, industries and objectives for you, delivers each distinct ad once, and stops by itself when thirty combinations in a row surface nothing new (measured on Germany: about 100 distinct ads across the 7 and 30 day lists).

You pay per top ad delivered, detail record included. Duplicates across filter combinations, ads your dedup memory already knows, status rows and empty runs cost nothing.

Quick start

1. Open the Actor and pick one or more Countries and Periods (last 7, 30 or 180 days).
2. Leave Sort orders to sweep on every order, or narrow it. Pin an Industry or Campaign objective if you only want one; otherwise the sweeps add one combination per industry and per objective after the base lists.
3. Set Max ads (total). The sweep stops when it is reached or when the combinations run out.
4. Run it. Download the Top ads view as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read the dataset through the API. The run summary lists which filter combinations produced new ads, so you can tune the next run.
5. For a weekly swipe file, give the run a Dedup memory name and schedule it: every later run returns only ads it has not delivered yet, and known ads are never charged again.

What you get

Top ad rows (type: "material")

Measured on 644 top ads from 11 platform runs on 2026-09-22 (brand name 34%, ad title 99%, likes 100%, comments 74%, shares 74%, CTR 100%, cost tier 100%, industry 94%, objective 100%, landing page 54%, keywords 0%, pattern labels 0%, video URL 100%, cover 100%, media expiry 100%).

Field	What it is
materialId, creativeCenterUrl	TikTok's id and the public Top Ads detail page
brandName, adTitle	brand name as TikTok shows it (empty for many ads) and the ad caption
likes, comments, shares, favorite	engagement counts (comments and shares come from the detail record)
ctr	click through rate in percent as TikTok reports it
costTier, costTierCode	low, medium or high budget tier and TikTok's code
industryKey, industry, objectiveKey, objective, objectives	industry and campaign objective with their labels
countryCodes, source, sourceKey, isSearchResult	where the ad ran and how TikTok sourced it
landingPage, keywords, patternLabels, highlightText, voiceOver, hasSummary	the detail record's creative fields; landing page is published for about half the ads, keywords and pattern labels rarely (see the measured fill rates above)
videoId, videoDuration, videoWidth, videoHeight	the video and its dimensions
coverUrl, videoUrl, videoUrls	the cover, the best rendition and every rendition (1080p, 720p, 540p, 360p) as signed CDN URLs
mediaExpiresAt	the earliest expiry of the row's media URLs, parsed from the CDN signature; download before then
keyframes, metrics	with Include retention curve and engagement metrics (the Retention curve event): the second by second audience retention curve and the like, comment and share counts TikTok reports
country, period, orderBy, rankInList, foundBy	the list that surfaced the ad and its rank in it
isNew, scrapedAt	bookkeeping

The run summary (type: "summary"), free

Counters for combinations planned, fetched and empty, list, detail and keyframe calls, ads seen, delivered and charged, duplicates and known ads skipped, the top filter combinations by new ads, HTTP statistics and billing counters that report attempted and platform confirmed charges separately.

How much does it cost to scrape TikTok Creative Center?

Live prices at the BRONZE tier; Silver 10 percent and Gold 20 percent off the result event, no discount on the Actor start event.

Event	Price	When it is charged
Top ad	$1.50 per 1,000	once per unique top ad delivered, detail record included
Retention curve	$1.00 per 1,000	once per ad that carries the retention curve and engagement metrics (opt in)
Actor start	$1.00 per run per GB of memory	once per run; a 1 GB run pays it once

The Store pricing card shows these same prices per 1,000 events: "$1.50 / 1,000" on the Top ad row means one ad costs less than a fifth of a cent. A sweep that delivers 500 ads costs 500 x $1.50 / 1,000 plus the start event, about $0.75. There is no separate detail event and no login or cookie to provide; the retention curve is the only add on, because it costs two more TikTok calls per ad.

Measured platform cost on 10 runs: about $0.106 per 1,000 top ads with details on the default 1 GB memory (the price is $1.50 per 1,000).

Input

Field	Type	Notes
countries	array	Creative Center countries, ISO codes or names; all for every one
periods	array	7, 30, 180
orderBy	array	for_you, impression, ctr, like, play_2s_rate, play_6s_rate, cvr; default all
industries, objectives	array	Creative Center ids to pin; the run summary lists ids and labels
adLanguages, adFormat, likeTiers	array, string, array	language codes, spark or non_spark, likes percentile tiers 1 to 5
sweepIndustries, sweepObjectives	boolean	add the industry and objective layers when nothing is pinned (default on)
maxAds	integer	cap, 0 = no cap
includeDetails, includeKeyframes	boolean	the detail record (default on, included) and the retention curve (default off, $1.00 per 1,000)
dedupMemoryName, resetDedupMemory	string, boolean	cross run memory
proxyConfiguration, maxConcurrency	object, 1 to 8	Apify datacenter proxy by default; parallel requests

{
  "countries": ["US", "GB"],
  "periods": [30],
  "maxAds": 300,
  "dedupMemoryName": "top-ads-weekly"
}

What this Actor does NOT do

• It does not search by keyword. TikTok serves keyword search on Top Ads only to logged in users; for an anonymous visitor the call returns an empty list, so the input does not offer it.
• It does not page past the first 20 of a list. That is what TikTok shows without a login (page two is always empty), which is why the Actor sweeps filter combinations instead.
• It does not scrape trends (hashtags, songs, creators, videos), keyword insights or top products. As of September 2026 the public Creative Center shows three hashtags and four videos to anonymous visitors and has no public song, creator, keyword insight or top product page; the rest is behind a login.
• It does not report spend. costTier is TikTok's low, medium or high budget label, not money.
• It does not host media. The URLs expire (mediaExpiresAt says when); download what you want to keep.

FAQ

Do I need to log in to TikTok Creative Center?

No. The Actor signs its requests the way the public page does and needs no account, cookie or key. What it cannot do is what TikTok hides behind the login: keyword search, pages past the first 20 of a list, and most trend rankings.

How many top ads can I get per country?

TikTok shows an anonymous visitor one list of 20 per filter combination. The Actor sweeps sort orders, periods, industries and objectives and delivers each distinct ad once; measured on Germany, the 7 and 30 day lists together held about 100 distinct ads, and the sweep stops by itself after 30 combinations in a row without a new ad. The run summary lists which combinations produced them.

How long do the video URLs work?

They are signed CDN links that expire, usually within a day or two. Every row carries mediaExpiresAt, parsed from the signature, so you can download before then.

Does it scrape trending hashtags, songs or creators?

No. As of September 2026 the public Creative Center shows anonymous visitors three hashtags and four videos and has no public song, creator, keyword insight or top product page, so those are not sold here.

Is the detail record an extra charge?

No. Landing page, comments, shares, countries and source are fetched for every delivered ad and included in the Top ad price (keywords and pattern labels come along when TikTok publishes them, which is rare). The retention curve and engagement metrics are the one opt in add on, priced separately because they cost two more TikTok calls per ad.

How do I build a weekly swipe file without paying twice?

Put a name in dedupMemoryName and use the same name every run. Ads already delivered under that name are skipped free of charge.

Why does this Actor run with limited permissions?

Least privilege. It can only reach its own storages: the dataset it writes and the one named key-value store it creates for your dedup memory. It cannot read anything else in your Apify account.

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Changelog

• 0.1.0 (2026-09-23): first release.