TikTok Explore Scraper

What is TikTok Explore Scraper?

TikTok Explore Scraper is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that allows you to extract data from TikTok explore categories. The data includes:

• Posts data: URL, cover image, text, number of diggs, shares, plays, comments, duration, author, location where it was created, if the post is an ad or not.
• Authors data: Name, nickname, whether it’s a verified account or not, signature, number of fans, videos, bio link.
• Music data: Name, author, album, whether it’s original sound or not, ID
• Video data: Duration, definition, format, height and weight.

How to scrape TikTok with TikTok Explore Scraper?

TikTok Explore Scraper is designed to be user-friendly, offering a smooth start for those who have never extracted data from the web before. Here’s how you can use TikTok Explore Scraper:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open TikTok Explore Scraper.
3. Choose one or multiple TikTok explore categories you want to get data about.
4. Click the “Start” button and wait for the data to be extracted.
5. Download your data in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

🔼Input sample

The input for TikTok Explore Scraper should be one or multiple TikTok explore categories. See the example below. In this run, TikTok Explore Scraper will get data from the singing and dancing TikTok category.

🔽Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

Of course, you can choose in which format you want to download your TikTok explore data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

How can I use the data extracted from TikTok Explore?

The data extracted from TikTok Explore Scraper can be used for a variety of purposes, including:

✨ Conducting sentiment analysis

👩‍🔬 Obtaining data for research and social listening experiments

🦠 Analyzing trends, and viral campaigns

🥸 Identifying unverified content and inaccurate information with high public value

📚 Preparing for or analyzing a TikTok marketing campaign

👨‍🦲 Lead generation data enrichment

Integrate TikTok Explore Scraper and automate your workflow

Last but not least, TikTok Explore 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 Explore 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 Data Extractor	💬TikTok Comments Scraper
#️⃣ TikTok Hashtag Scraper	🔍TikTok Discover Scraper	🎯TikTok Hashtag Analytics
📡TikTok Channel Scraper	🔎TikTok User Search Scraper	🎥TikTok Live Scraper

Not your cup of tea? Build your own scraper.

TikTok Explore Scraper 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. Take a look at a guide on how to scrape TikTok using Python.

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.

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 Explore Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console.

❓FAQ

How much does it cost to use TikTok Explore Scraper?

TikTok Explore Scraper uses the Pay-per-event pricing model. You’re charged with a fixed price for specific events. Your costs can, therefore, be easily calculated. It’ll cost you **$**0.03 for every time the Actor starts. An additional $0.003 is charged per dataset item. If you download scraped videos, it’ll cost you $0.001 per video.

How can I use TikTok Explore Scraper 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 Explore Scraper API tab for code examples.

Is it legal to scrape TikTok with TikTok Explore Scraper?

Our TikTok scrapers, TikTok Explore Scraper 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.