TikTok Data Extractor

What does TikTok Data Extractor do?

This TikTok Data Extractor allows you to extract data about videos from the TikTok social media site. It gives you detailed TikTok information in structured formats such as Excel, XML, HTML, JSON, and CSV, which you can use in your own reports, spreadsheets, and applications. TikTok Data Extractor allows you to scrape:

• Results from a TikTok hashtag search.
• Numbers of comments and shares, followers and following, total likes.
• Individual posts and full user profiles - by using a URL for a specific profile or video.
• Information about posts from keyword search queries. Moreover, you can download scraped videos directly.

How to scrape TikTok with TikTok Data Extractor

If you've never done any web scraping before, don’t worry. TikTok Data Scraper is easy to use. Here’s how:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open TikTok Data Extractor.
3. Add one or more hashtags to scrape TikTok followers, videos and creators.
4. Click the “Start” button and wait for the data to be extracted.
5. Download your data in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

If you feel like you’d enjoy more comprehensive explanation, try this step-by-step guide or simply watch a quick video tutorial on YouTube:

Input

To start scraping TikTok, simply fill in the input form. TikTok Data Extractor recognizes the following input parameters:

• hashtags - scrapes TikTok for hashtags.
• profiles - scrapes TikTok profiles.
• search - scrapes specific keywords and extract videos and profiles that contain it.
• video URLs - scrapes specific TikTok videos.

Here’s a screenshot of scraping #funny from TikTok.

And here’s the same, just in JSON.

{
    "hashtags": [
        "funny"
    ],
    "resultsPerPage": 100,
    "shouldDownloadCovers": false,
    "shouldDownloadSlideshowImages": false,
    "shouldDownloadSubtitles": false,
    "shouldDownloadVideos": false
}

Output

You get the output from TikTok Data Extractor stored in a tab. Here's an example of some of the output from the previous #funny Actor run.

By clicking on the green Export button, you can download the dataset in XML, CSV, Excel, HTML, or JSON. See an example of a JSON file:

{
    "authorMeta.avatar": "https://p16-sign-sg.tiktokcdn.com/aweme/720x720/tos-alisg-avt-0068/bc3a20fbab0d67915fa082152d96449e.jpeg?lk3s=a5d48078&nonce=12322&refresh_token=3045197dca8797ac15f26bd1d8d2c859&x-expires=1723143600&x-signature=bnKkJ%2FGVCg7v%2BDqd%2B5val9VDd0U%3D&shp=a5d48078&shcp=b59d6b55",
    "authorMeta.name": "tom.cashman",
    "text": "Breaking up via Wordle #wordle #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #fy #breakups",
    "diggCount": 465100,
    "shareCount": 8397,
    "playCount": 3500000,
    "commentCount": 1072,
    "videoMeta.duration": 26,
    "musicMeta.musicName": "original sound",
    "musicMeta.musicAuthor": "cashman.tom",
    "musicMeta.musicOriginal": true,
    "createTimeISO": "2022-01-27T03:45:41.000Z",
    "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tom.cashman/video/7057727079848103169"
  }

How can I use the data extracted from TikTok with TikTok Data Extractor?

• 💙 Boost brand awareness or spread the message about social issues and causes.
• 📈 Forecast upcoming trends and influences on social media across the new generation.
• 🔬 Get data for research and social listening experiments.
• ⭐ Get authentic product reviews and back up sentiment analysis with real data.
• 🪧Plan commercial campaigns on TikTok or other social media platforms.
• 📚 Simplify market research for hashtag challenges and marketing campaigns.
• 📋 Get a list of perfect-fit marketing leads.

Get in-depth information about how can TikTok Data Extractor help you and how to use it in this webinar we held.

Integrations and TikTok Data Extractor

Last but not least, TikTok Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform.

These include:

• Make
• Zapier
• Slack
• Airbyte
• GitHub
• Google Drive
• and much more.

Alternatively, you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever TikTok Scraper successfully finishes a run.

Scrape any TikTok data you need with dedicated scrapers

You can use the dedicated scrapers below if you want to scrape specific TikTok data. Each of them is built particularly for the relevant TikTok data scraping case, be it hashtags, search results, profiles, or all data at once. Feel free to browse them:

🎹 Tiktok Scraper	📹 Tiktok Video Scraper	🧛 TikTok Profile Scraper	🎸 Tiktok Sound Scraper
🎙 TikTok Comments Scraper	🛍 Tiktok Ads Scraper	#️⃣ TikTok Hashtag Scraper	🔍TikTok Discover Scraper

Not your cup of tea? Build your own scraper

TikTok Data Extractor doesn’t exactly do what you need?

You can always build your own! Use one of scraper templates in Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript to get started.

Alternatively, you can write it from scratch using our open-source library Crawlee. You can keep the scraper to yourself or make it public by adding it to Apify Store and start making money on it.

Or let us know if you need a custom scraping solution.

Your feedback

We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for TikTok Data Extractor or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console.

FAQ

How much does TikTok Data Extractor cost?

TikTok Data Extractor uses the Pay-per-result pricing model, so your costs can be easily calculated: it will cost you $4 to scrape 1,000 results, so $0.004 per item. Apify provides you with $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan, so you can get 1,250 results from TikTok Data Extractor for free.

But if you need to extract data regularly, you should get an Apify subscription. We recommend our $49/month Starter plan — that one could get you over 12,250 TikTok Data Extractor results every month.

How can I use TikTok Data Extractor with the Apify API?

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details or click on the TikTok Data Extractor API tab for code examples.

Is it legal to scrape TikTok with TikTok Data Extractor?

Our TikTok scrapers, TikTok Data Extractor included, are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They can only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. However, you should be aware that your results might contain personal data.

Personal data is protected by GDPR in the European Union and other laws and regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you’re unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping and ethical scraping.