TikTok Creative Center Trends

Get verified public TikTok Creative Center hashtag rankings with nothing to sign up to and no API key. The actor fetches TikTok's public server-rendered Creative Center trend page and returns the anonymous records TikTok actually exposes: rank, hashtags, posts, views, popularity curve, industries, and top creators.

What works today

• Public hashtag rankings by region and 7 or 30 day period
• Rank, posts, views, popularity curve, industry IDs, and visible top creator metadata
• A local industry-ID filter over the public records TikTok returns
• Direct HTTP first, with optional Apify Proxy only when a direct request is blocked
• Runs work out of the box: the anonymous page is read first, and a built-in session is used only if that page comes back blocked
• One trend pay-per-event charge for each verified real trend row saved

Current Creative Center source limits

TikTok changes Creative Center independently of this actor. At the time this version was validated:

• The old creative_radar_api trend JSON routes return 40101 no permission to anonymous callers.
• The public Creative Center hashtag page includes stable server-rendered data and is the only source used for chargeable output.
• The Video page displays a small browser preview but does not include stable anonymous video records in the direct public page response used by the actor.
• Creator is marked Coming soon, Song or Music is absent from the current public Trends page, and the current Top Ads route resolves to 404 for anonymous traffic.

Selecting video, creator, song, or ad creates an explicit PUBLIC_SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE diagnostic. Diagnostics are never charged. This avoids presenting login-gated or absent data as a working product.

Input

Field	Default	Description
trendTypes	["hashtag"]	Trend types to attempt. Only hashtag currently produces chargeable public records.
region	US	Country code supported by anonymous hashtag rankings.
periodDays	7	7 or 30 day Creative Center comparison period.
industryIds	empty	Optional exact industry-ID filter applied to returned public hashtag results.
maxResults	3	Up to three anonymous rankings currently exposed by Creative Center.
requestTimeoutSecs	25	HTTP request timeout, from 8 to 60 seconds.
proxyConfiguration	off	Optional Apify Proxy configuration.
sessionCookies	empty	Optional. Leave empty. Runs read the anonymous page first and fall back to a built-in session only when it is blocked. Your own TikTok sessionid cookie here gives you a rate limit nobody else shares. It does not unlock the unavailable trend types.

Example:

{
  "trendTypes": ["hashtag"],
  "region": "US",
  "periodDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

Each verified public ranking produces one row:

{
  "ok": true,
  "trendType": "hashtag",
  "rank": 1,
  "region": "US",
  "periodDays": 7,
  "hashtag": "#exampletrend",
  "posts": 17111,
  "views": 28789647,
  "industryIds": ["23000000000"],
  "popularityCurve": [
    { "timestamp": "2026-07-19T00:00:00.000Z", "value": 54.2 }
  ],
  "topCreators": [
    { "rank": 1, "handle": "examplecreator", "followers": 120000, "country": "US" }
  ],
  "source": "tiktok_creative_center_public_ssr",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ads.tiktok.com/creative/creativeCenter/trends/hashtag?region=US&period=7"
}

Empty input returns a labeled sample row for automated Apify checks and Store previews. Bad input, a source block, no matching industry, unavailable types, and parsing failures return ok: false diagnostic rows. No sample or diagnostic row is charged.

Pricing

$8.00 per 1,000 trends ($0.008 each), with no run-start fee. Flat rate — no volume tiers, no plan gates — and the trend event fires once per verified real ranking row saved.

Creative Center currently exposes at most three anonymous rankings per region and period, and maxResults is capped at 3 to match, so a full run costs $0.024. Sweeping all 27 supported regions on both the 7-day and 30-day period is 54 runs and at most 162 rows — $1.296.

Sample rows, PUBLIC_SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE diagnostics, blocked requests and parse failures are never charged, and with no start fee a run that returns nothing costs nothing at all.

Proxy guidance

Start with direct HTTP. The validated US anonymous page returned HTTP 200 without a proxy. Enable a proxy only after a 403 or 429 response, because a residential proxy adds bandwidth cost to an otherwise small HTML response — and Apify Proxy traffic is billed to your own account, separately from the per-trend price above.

A proxy will not unlock the unavailable trend types either: it cannot turn the permission-denied legacy API, the "Coming soon" Creator tab, the absent Song tab, or the missing Top Ads route into a verified anonymous source.

Sessions

Every run reads the anonymous public page first, because that page is the source of the chargeable rows and it costs no session quota at all. Only when it answers with a block or without its server-rendered payload does the run retry with a built-in session, so a normal run never touches one.

That built-in session is shared by everyone running this actor, so under heavy concurrent load it is subject to a shared rate limit. Put your own TikTok sessionid cookie in sessionCookies for a rate limit nobody else shares — a cookie is as good as a password for the account it belongs to, so only use one you are comfortable exposing. If the session is unavailable the run degrades to the ordinary uncharged diagnostic row instead of failing.

A session does not unlock the unavailable trend types, and it does not raise the three-ranking maxResults ceiling. Neither claim has been verified against a live source, so neither is made here.