TikTok Followers & Following Scraper: who an account follows, and who follows it

Give it a TikTok handle and get one row per account in its list: handle, display name, bio, avatar, region, verified flag, and that account's own follower, following, video and like counts. Enough to sort a list by size without a second run.

The part that decides whether this fits your project: following lists need nothing from you, and follower lists need your own TikTok cookie. TikTok's public follower route closed in August 2026 and its own one is behind a login, so a followers run without a cookie returns an uncharged row telling you exactly that.

Input	TikTok handles, profile links, or numeric user ids
Output	One row per account in the list
Ceiling	1,000 accounts per profile, per list
Account needed	None for following. Followers needs your own cookie
Price	$0.35 per 1,000 profiles, flat on every plan

👥 What TikTok Followers & Following Scraper does

Point it at one or more accounts and it walks the list you asked for, page by page, until it hits your row limit, the run's time limit, or the end of the list.

Following is the keyless mode and the one it starts on. Followers needs a cookie from your own TikTok account in sessionCookies. Both does the two lists for every profile you gave it.

Every row is a full profile, not just a handle, so you can filter a following list down to accounts over a certain size without opening any of them.

📥 What you give it

{
  "profiles": ["tiktok", "nba"],
  "listType": "following",
  "maxItemsPerProfile": 100,
  "maxRunSeconds": 90
}

Field	Default	What it is
profiles	box holds tiktok	Handles, @handles, profile links or numeric user ids. Delete the example before your own run.
listType	following	following, followers or both. Followers needs a cookie in sessionCookies.
maxItemsPerProfile	100	Rows per profile per list, up to 1,000. Lower it for a cheap look first.
maxRunSeconds	90	Wall-clock limit, 10 to 180. When it arrives the run returns what it has.
sessionCookies	empty	Your own TikTok cookie, at least sessionid. Required for follower lists. Anyone holding that value can act as your account, so treat it like a password.
fallbackToProxy	false	Retry a blocked or failed request through the servers configured below.
proxyConfiguration	off	Which of your own servers that retry should use. Leave it alone unless a run came back blocked.

Run it with profiles empty and you get one labelled sample row and nothing else.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run. The bio is cut short here, because the real one carries emoji:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "relationship_profile",
  "uniqueId": "tiktokcreators",
  "userId": "6551237489917432832",
  "nickname": "tiktok creators",
  "signature": "The official account for TikTok Creators who inspire creativity and bring joy ...",
  "avatar": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/8a3909f3933...",
  "verified": true,
  "region": "PH",
  "followerCount": 8808628,
  "followingCount": 567,
  "videoCount": 1112,
  "likesCount": 33540530,
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAXqqA-cLDC0hfQPIrS5APYNsg04zkl-socWCkqkI3UIOaEe6_Qnokg0GcWpLnMNQP",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokcreators",
  "sourceProfile": "@tiktok",
  "listType": "following",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T05:47:10.009Z"
}

Field	What it is
uniqueId, userId, secUid	The handle, the numeric id and TikTok's long id. secUid is what other TikTok tools usually want.
nickname, signature	Display name and bio, as written, line breaks and emoji included.
followerCount, followingCount, videoCount, likesCount	That account's own totals at read time.
region	The two-letter region TikTok reports for the account, which is not always where the person is.
sourceProfile, listType	Whose list this row came from, and which list. Both are what you group on.
avatar	A TikTok image link carrying an expiry. Download what you want to keep.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it
A profile	ok: true and type: "relationship_profile"
The sample row	_sample: true, written only when profiles was empty
A diagnostic	ok: false, an errorCode, and a _notice saying it was not charged

Code	What it means
BAD_INPUT	That entry is not a handle, link or id this can use. The other profiles carry on.
UNAVAILABLE	A followers run with no cookie in sessionCookies. Nothing was fetched and no rows were charged.
BLOCKED	TikTok would not serve the list that time. Worth a re-run.
NETWORK	The request failed. It is also the catch-all when the reason is not one this recognises.

A private account, or one whose list will not open, comes back as a diagnostic row rather than a silent zero.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open TikTok Followers & Following Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Put the accounts into TikTok profiles, deleting the example.
3. Leave List type on Following for a keyless run, or pick Followers and paste your own cookie into Your own account cookies.
4. Set Maximum profiles per input low, say 50, for the first run, then click Start.
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.35 per 1,000 profiles. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

One row is one profile. The sample row and every diagnostic row are not charged, including a followers run that stops because no cookie was supplied.

Two things move the count more than people expect. both fetches two separate lists, and an account in both of them is a row in each. And the limit is applied in pages of 50, so asking for 60 can deliver up to 100. Set maxItemsPerProfile in multiples of 50 if you want the number you asked for.

💡 What people use it for

• Reading who a brand account follows, which is usually a short, deliberate list.
• Finding creators in a niche by walking the following lists of a few accounts in it.
• Sizing an audience: every row carries its own follower count, so you can sort by reach.
• Watching a following list on a schedule and diffing on userId to see who was added.
• Building a contact shortlist where region and verified matter.

🚧 What it does not do

• A followers run needs your own cookie. Without one you get an uncharged UNAVAILABLE row. That is TikTok's gate, not a setting here.
• A numeric user id cannot be used for a followers run. Give it the handle or the profile link for that mode.
• 1,000 rows per profile, per list. A big account's full follower list is not reachable here.
• both counts an account twice when it is in both lists, once under each listType.
• The row limit is a page limit underneath, in pages of 50, so a run can return up to 49 rows more than you asked for.
• A run that hits its time limit returns a partial list, and nothing on the rows marks it as cut short. Compare the row count against what you asked for.
• Private accounts are out of reach, the same as in a browser.
• No email addresses or phone numbers. Only what the profile shows publicly.
• Counts are a snapshot. Follower numbers move by the hour on big accounts.

🧭 Which TikTok scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Who an account follows, or who follows it	This one
Stats for a list of accounts you already have	TikTok Profile Scraper
Videos under a hashtag	TikTok Hashtag Scraper
Comments under a video	TikTok Comments Scraper
An account's videos and their stats	TikTok Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Why do followers need a cookie when following does not? TikTok closed the public follower route in August 2026 and its own one is behind a login. Following lists are still served to anyone.

Where do I find my cookie? In Chrome, F12, then Application, Cookies, tiktok.com, and copy at least the sessionid value. It is as good as your password for that account, so use one you are comfortable exposing, and expect it to stop working when you log out.

Can I get the full follower list of a huge account? No. The ceiling is 1,000 per list per run, and TikTok paginates from the top of the list.

What happens to a private account? You get an uncharged diagnostic row for it and the run carries on with the rest.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. userId is stable, so working out who joined or left since last time is a join.

Is this legal? These are public profile pages. The rows are personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting them. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the handle and the listType you used, plus the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.