# TikTok Video Detail Scraper (`axery/tiktok-video-detail-scraper`) Actor

Scrape a single TikTok video - play/like/comment/share counts, author profile with follower stats, hashtags used, music, and direct video file URLs. No login, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/tiktok-video-detail-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Axery](https://apify.com/axery) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, News, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## TikTok Video Detail Scraper

Scrapes a single TikTok video — play/like/comment/share counts, author profile with follower stats, hashtags used, music, and direct video file URLs. No login, no API key.

Useful for tracking specific viral videos, influencer/creator research, and building a video-performance dataset.

### What makes this different

**Uses the one TikTok surface that actually renders without a signed request.** TikTok's desktop web pages for this same data — the video page under `@user/video/{id}`, the hashtag page, the profile page — are gated behind an anti-bot layer that returns either a challenge page or a stripped-down placeholder with no items, confirmed directly against live pages rather than assumed. TikTok's own mobile web video page renders the full record server-side with no such gate. This Actor reads that page specifically, not the desktop one.

**Author stats come bundled with the video**, not just a username — follower count, total likes, following count, and video count travel with every row, so a single video result doubles as a creator-size signal without a second lookup.

**Hashtags carry their own site-wide reach**, not just a name — each hashtag in a video's caption comes with the total video count posted under it, useful for judging how competitive or niche a tag actually is.

### What's honestly out of scope

**No comment text.** The video record's own `comments` field always comes back empty on this page — real comment content lives behind TikTok's signed `/api/comment/list/` endpoint, which requires the `X-Bogus`/`X-Gnarly` request-signing scheme this Actor deliberately does not implement. `comment_count` is a real number; the comments themselves are not fetched.

**No video list from a hashtag or profile.** The equivalent profile page does carry full bio and stats fields, but its video grid loads separately after the page renders and isn't part of the server-rendered data this Actor reads. This Actor is scoped to one video per input, not a channel/hashtag browse.

### Input

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `videos` | array | Full TikTok video URLs or bare numeric video IDs. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Defaults to Residential. |

### Output

```json
{
  "video_id": "tiktok.com:6718335390845095173",
  "description": "Scramble up ur name & I'll try to guess it #foryoupage #petsoftiktok",
  "play_count": 159000,
  "like_count": 35100,
  "comment_count": 5495,
  "author_username": "scout2015",
  "author_follower_count": 9000000,
  "hashtags": [{"id": "88764338", "name": "foryoupage", "video_count": 4305265721}],
  "play_url": "https://v16-webapp-prime.tiktok.com/video/tos/...",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
}
```

A video that's removed, private, or an invalid ID fails with a clear message rather than returning a hollow row. Each run also writes a `RUN_COVERAGE` record to the key-value store with what was requested, what came back, and any per-video failures.

### Local development

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
python test_local.py 6718335390845095173 --out sample_output.json
python test_local.py https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173
```

`sample_output.json` is real output from a live run.

# Actor input Schema

## `videos` (type: `array`):

Full TikTok video URLs or bare numeric video IDs. Each is fetched independently into the same dataset.

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

Apify Proxy settings. Defaults to Residential - TikTok's desktop web paths for this same data are gated behind an anti-bot layer, so Apify's own container IP range is a plausible target for the same defense even on this less-restricted mobile-web path.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `videos` (type: `string`):

One row per video: engagement counts, author profile + stats, hashtags, music, video file URLs.

# 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 = {
    "videos": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/tiktok-video-detail-scraper").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 = { "videos": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/tiktok-video-detail-scraper").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 '{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
  ]
}' |
apify call axery/tiktok-video-detail-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,axery/tiktok-video-detail-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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 <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` 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/zkCkD5N3ZJOQRyoSf/builds/eslPEVVAFI7JXfsTf/openapi.json