TikTok Video Scraper

What is TikTok Video Scraper?

TikTok Video Scraper is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that allows you to extract data from chosen TikTok videos. Using this tool, you will be able to scrape:

• All data from chosen videos: caption, video URL, number of plays, hearts, comments, shares, mentions country of creation, timestamp, paid or non-paid status, hashtags used, video- and music-related metadata.
• Basic creator info from TikToks posted with chosen videos: name, ID, avatar, bio, account status, total followers/following numbers, given/received likes count, etc.

How to scrape TikTok with TikTok Video Scraper?

TikTok Video 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 Video Scraper to extract video data:

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

Watch this quide on how to scrape TikTok videos:

Input sample

The input for TikTok Video Scraper should be one or multiple TikTok video URLs. You can always find those on top of the page in the TikTok web app.

Click on the input tab for a full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2  "postURLs": [
3    "https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7398101551744552225?q=apifytech&t=1723058608615"
4  ],
5  "shouldDownloadCovers": false,
6  "shouldDownloadSlideshowImages": false,
7  "shouldDownloadSubtitles": false,
8  "shouldDownloadVideos": false
9}

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:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose to download your TikTok video data in JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1{
2    "authorMeta.avatar": "https://p16-sign-useast2a.tiktokcdn.com/tos-useast2a-avt-0068-euttp/27af0c23a8046cd97757b78e0a083799~c5_720x720.jpeg?lk3s=a5d48078&nonce=65251&refresh_token=ab686f157a772b41fad5a817eed42e9a&x-expires=1723230000&x-signature=4Ikq%2BprqmmqH0CxVtb31I9Eh%2BXM%3D&shp=a5d48078&shcp=81f88b70",
3    "authorMeta.name": "apifytech",
4    "text": "📣 Yes, you can scrape job listings #data in a minute!!   #webscraping #techtiktok #job #automation ",
5    "diggCount": 15,
6    "shareCount": 0,
7    "playCount": 243,
8    "commentCount": 0,
9    "videoMeta.duration": 23,
10    "musicMeta.musicName": "original sound",
11    "musicMeta.musicAuthor": "apifytech",
12    "musicMeta.musicOriginal": false,
13    "createTimeISO": "2024-08-01T09:32:32.000Z",
14    "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7398101551744552225"
15  }

How can I use the data extracted with TikTok Video Scraper?

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

✨ Conduct sentiment analysis and find authentic product reviews

👩‍🔬 Obtain data for research and social listening experiments

🦠 Analyze trends, viral campaigns, and content of specific creators

🥸 Identify unverified content and inaccurate information with high public value

📚 Prepare for or analyze a TikTok marketing campaign

Integrate TikTok Video Scraper and automate your workflow

Last but not least, TikTok Video 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 Video Scraper successfully finishes a run.

Integrate TikTok Video Scraper and automate your workflow

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

These include:

• Make.
• <a href="https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier"target="_blank"> 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 you extract TikTok video.

How to use data extracted from TikTok videos?

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

✨ Conduct sentiment analysis and find authentic product reviews

👩‍🔬 Obtain data for research and social listening experiments

🦠 Analyze trends, viral campaigns and content of specific creators

🥸 Identify unverified content and inaccurate information with high public value

📚 Prepare for or analyze a TikTok marketing campaign

How do I use TikTok Video Scraper?

TikTok Video 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 Video Scraper to extract video data:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open TikTok Video Scraper.
3. Add one or more TikTok videos to scrape data.
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

The input for TikTok Video Scraper should be one or multiple TikTok video URLs. You can always find those on top of the page in the TikTok web app.

Click on the input tab for a full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2  "postURLs": [
3    "https://www.tiktok.com/@olympics/video/7208589533632269574",
4    "https://www.tiktok.com/@olympics/video/7210447318028455173",
5    "https://www.tiktok.com/@olympics/video/7200420986661965061"
6  ]
7}

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:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your TikTok video data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1{
2    "authorMeta.avatar": "https://p16-sign-useast2a.tiktokcdn.com/tos-useast2a-avt-0068-euttp/27af0c23a8046cd97757b78e0a083799~c5_720x720.jpeg?lk3s=a5d48078&nonce=65251&refresh_token=ab686f157a772b41fad5a817eed42e9a&x-expires=1723230000&x-signature=4Ikq%2BprqmmqH0CxVtb31I9Eh%2BXM%3D&shp=a5d48078&shcp=81f88b70",
3    "authorMeta.name": "apifytech",
4    "text": "📣 Yes, you can scrape job listings #data in a minute!!   #webscraping #techtiktok #job #automation ",
5    "diggCount": 15,
6    "shareCount": 0,
7    "playCount": 243,
8    "commentCount": 0,
9    "videoMeta.duration": 23,
10    "musicMeta.musicName": "original sound",
11    "musicMeta.musicAuthor": "apifytech",
12    "musicMeta.musicOriginal": false,
13    "createTimeISO": "2024-08-01T09:32:32.000Z",
14    "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@apifytech/video/7398101551744552225"
15  }

How can I use the data extracted with TikTok Video Scraper?

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

✨ Conduct sentiment analysis and find authentic product reviews

👩‍🔬 Obtain data for research and social listening experiments

🦠 Analyze trends, viral campaigns, and content of specific creators

🥸 Identify unverified content and inaccurate information with high public value

📚 Prepare for or analyze a TikTok marketing campaign

Integrate TikTok Video Scraper and automate your workflow

Last but not least, TikTok Video 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 Video 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 Comments Scraper	🧛 TikTok Profile Scraper	🎸 Tiktok Sound Scraper
📊 TikTok Data Extractor	🛍 Tiktok Ads Scraper	#️⃣ TikTok Hashtag Scraper	🔍TikTok Discover Scraper

Not your cup of tea? Build your own scraper.

TikTok Video 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.

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 Comments 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 Video scraper?

TikTok Comments Scraper uses the Pay-per-result pricing model, so your costs can be easily calculated: it will cost you $10 to scrape 1,000 results, so $0.010 per item. Apify provides you with $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan, so you can get 500 results from TikTok Video Scraper 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 4,900 results from TikTok Video Scraper every month.

How can I use TikTok Video 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.

You can use the apify-client NPM package to access the API using Node.js, or the apify-client PyPI package to access the API using Python.

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

Is it legal to scrape TikTok with TikTok Video Scraper?

Our TikTok scrapers, TikTok Video 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.