TikTok Profile Scraper: follower counts, likes and bio for any public handle

Give it a list of TikTok usernames and you get one flat row per account: followers, following, lifetime likes, video count, bio, verified flag, avatar and the profile link. Nothing to log into.

The part worth knowing first: TikTok hides two of those numbers on most accounts. followingCount and diggCount come back as 0 on plenty of large, active profiles because the account keeps them private, not because the figure is really zero. And this returns the profile only. The videos on it are a different actor, linked further down.

Input	Usernames, or tiktok.com/@handle links
Output	One row per profile
Ceiling	No cap. One row per unique handle you send
Account needed	None from you
Price	$0.35 per 1,000 profiles, flat on every plan

🔍 What TikTok Profile Scraper does

You hand it handles, it hands back the profile record behind each one. Handles are taken with or without the @, and a profile link works just as well since the handle is read straight out of it.

Everything is deduplicated before the rows land, so the same account listed twice in one run comes back once and is billed once. Handles are fetched one at a time rather than in a burst, which is why a long list takes a while.

The field names are TikTok's own rather than the labels you see in the app, because those are the names you will need if you feed the rows into anything else:

Field	What it is
signature	The bio text.
heartCount	Lifetime likes across everything the account has posted.
diggCount	Likes the account has given out. Usually 0, because it is usually hidden.
secUid	TikTok's stable internal id for the account.
id	The numeric user id.

A handle that does not exist, or that comes back empty, gets a row saying so and the run carries on to the next one.

📥 What you give it

{
  "profiles": ["tiktok", "nba", "khaby.lame"]
}

Field	Default	What it is
profiles	none	Usernames, with or without @. The form opens with tiktok and nba filled in as an example, which is a starting point rather than a default.
startUrls	none	Or paste profile links like https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok. Mix them with profiles freely.
sessionCookies	none	Optional. Your own TikTok sessionid, used only for handles that came back empty. Use a throwaway account: the value sits in the run input, which anyone who can open the run can read.
proxyConfiguration	off	Leave it off. It exists for people routing through their own servers at high volume.
notionConnector, notionParentId	none	Optional. Write each profile into a Notion database as well as the dataset.

Run it with nothing at all and you get one labelled sample row, free, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the avatar link cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "profile",
  "id": "107955",
  "uniqueId": "tiktok",
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAv7iSuuXDJGDvJkmH_vz1qkDZYo1apxgzaxdBSeIuPiM",
  "nickname": "TikTok",
  "signature": "Your next discovery is waiting on TikTok.",
  "verified": true,
  "avatar": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/...",
  "followerCount": 95824985,
  "followingCount": 1,
  "heartCount": 464140394,
  "videoCount": 1591,
  "diggCount": 0,
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"
}

Field	What it is
uniqueId, nickname	The handle, and the display name shown above it.
followerCount, videoCount	Audience size and how many videos are on the account right now.
heartCount	Lifetime likes. This is the number people usually mean by "total likes".
verified	The blue tick, as a boolean.
avatar, url	Direct link to the profile picture, and the canonical profile link.
id, secUid	Both ids TikTok uses. uniqueId is the readable one, secUid survives a rename.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Billed
A profile	ok: true and type: "profile"	yes
The sample row	_sample: true	no
A diagnostic	ok: false and an errorCode	no

Filter on ok == true and you have your data. NOT_FOUND and BLOCKED both mean no profile came back for that handle, and you can treat them the same way: check the spelling, then try it again later. NO_RESULTS is the single row you get when nothing at all came back for the whole run.

One quirk of the Overview table: it shows six columns, so a diagnostic row reads as a nearly blank line there, and followingCount, verified and secUid are not in it at all. Open the row itself or download the JSON and everything is present.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open TikTok Profile Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Type handles into Usernames, one per line, or paste links into Profile URLs.
3. Click Start.
4. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

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

You pay for rows that carry a profile. The sample row, diagnostic rows and the second copy of a handle you listed twice are not charged.

💡 What people use it for

• Refreshing follower and likes counts across a creator list on a schedule, then diffing week to week.
• Vetting a shortlist of accounts before an outreach round, so nobody pitches a dead handle.
• Turning a column of handles from a spreadsheet into a table with real numbers next to it.
• Grabbing secUid for accounts, which is the id that survives a handle change.

🚧 What it does not do

• No videos, comments or follower lists. This is the profile record. Three siblings below cover the rest.
• followingCount and diggCount are often 0 because TikTok hides them. Read a 0 there as "not shown", not as "none".
• A private account returns only what TikTok shows the public, which is the name, the bio and the counts it chooses to display.
• Counts are a snapshot at the moment the row was read, not a history.
• The avatar link is signed and expires. Download the image if you need to keep it.
• No search. You need the handle already. It will not find accounts by topic or keyword.

🧭 Which TikTok scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Follower and likes counts for handles you already have	This one
A profile plus the videos on it, or a keyword search	TikTok Scraper
Videos under a hashtag	TikTok Hashtag Scraper
Comments under a video	TikTok Comments Scraper
Which hashtags are climbing right now	TikTok Trending Hashtags

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a TikTok account? No. The cookie field is optional and only comes into play for handles that came back empty without it.

Can I get the account's videos too? Not from here. TikTok Scraper returns the profile row plus the videos on the grid.

Why does a big account show followingCount: 0? Because TikTok is not publishing that number for the account. The same goes for diggCount.

What happens to a handle that does not exist? You get an uncharged row marked ok: false, and the run moves on to the next handle instead of stopping.

Is scraping TikTok legal? This reads public profiles only, never private accounts or messages. Results can still contain personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting it. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify's scheduler, or start it from the API and read the dataset when it finishes.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Include the handles you used and the run ID, and the log is usually enough for us to see what happened.