TikTok Profile Scraper - Followers, Likes & Bio

TikTok profile scraper for a list of handles, user ids or keywords: one flat row per account with followers, following, lifetime likes, video count, bio, link in bio, the date the account was made, verified flag, avatar and the profile link. Nothing to log into.

The part worth knowing first: followingCount and diggCount come back as 0 when they are hidden, not only when the figure is really zero. Videos, comments and a saved copy of the profile picture are optional add-ons from 9 November 2026. Before that day, asking for one writes a free row saying so and fetches nothing.

Input	Usernames, numeric user ids, tiktok.com/@handle links, or keywords that find accounts
Output	One row per profile: followers, following, lifetime likes, video count, bio, link in bio, account date, private flag, verified flag, avatar, profile link and both TikTok ids
Ceiling	No cap on handles. A long list stops at the run's time limit, an hour by default, and keeps every profile it delivered
Speed	Roughly 40 to 50 profiles a minute on measured runs, and slower when TikTok is slow to answer
Account needed	None
Price	$0.35 per 1,000 profiles on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 14,000

Using an AI agent?
Actor	dami_studio/tiktok-user-scraper
Set one field	profiles, labelled "Usernames" in the Console
Cap the bill	maxTotalChargeUsd on the run, for example 0.10: it never charges past that
MCP, one link	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/tiktok-user-scraper
How often	Weekly, to track follower counts

🔍 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. A long numeric user id works too. Don't have handles yet? Give it a keyword and it finds the accounts first, then returns the same row for each.

Everything is deduplicated before the rows land, so the same account listed twice in one run comes back once and is billed once.

The field names are TikTok's own. heartCount is the lifetime likes figure people usually mean by "total likes".

📋 What data you get from each TikTok profile

What you get	Field
Handle, display name and the numeric user id	uniqueId, nickname, id
TikTok's long id, which survives a handle change	secUid
Bio	signature
Followers and following	followerCount, followingCount
Lifetime likes across everything the account has posted	heartCount
Videos on the account right now	videoCount
Likes the account has given out	diggCount
The blue tick	verified
Profile picture and the profile link	avatar, url
Which of your inputs found the row	sourceInput, sourceType
Private account, and whether its liked videos are hidden	privateAccount, likedVideosHidden
When the account was made	createTime
The link in bio, as the profile shows it	bioLink
Country code of the account	region
TikTok Shop seller, business account and mutual follows (optional, More account details)	ttSeller, commerceUser, friendCount
Optional add-on: a copy of the profile picture in the run's own storage	profilePictureKey, profilePictureUrl
Optional add-on rows, type: "video": an account's newest videos, videos under hashtags or for keywords, videos from links	id, webVideoUrl, text, createTime, hashtags, region, playCount, diggCount, commentCount, shareCount, collectCount, duration, cover, music, author
Optional add-on on video rows: the subtitles TikTok publishes, as text	subtitles, subtitlesLanguage
On video rows: accounts tagged in the caption, and where the video was posted	mentions, region
Optional add-on rows, type: "comment": comments and replies under video rows	id, videoId, parentId, text, likeCount, replyCount, createTime, user

▶️ How to scrape TikTok profiles

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

Start it with both boxes empty and you get one labelled sample row that is not charged.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape TikTok profiles?

$0.35 per 1,000 profiles on the Free plan. Paid plans pay a little less: $0.345 on Starter, $0.34 on Scale and $0.335 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 14,000 profiles.

You pay for rows that carry a profile, and an account found by keyword is one of those. The sample row, diagnostic rows and the second copy of an account you asked for twice are not charged. More account details costs nothing extra.

The optional add-ons start on 9 November 2026. On the Free plan they cost $0.25 per 1,000 videos, $0.40 per 1,000 comments, $0.35 per 1,000 saved profile pictures, and $0.05 per 1,000 videos the likes filters check and leave out; paid plans pay a little less. Before that day a run that asks for one gets a free OPTION_STARTS_SOON row instead.

📥 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. A numeric user id of 15 digits or more works too: it is tried as a username first, then as an id.
startUrls	none	Or paste profile links like https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok. Mix them with profiles freely. A link that is not a profile link is skipped.
searchQueries	none	Keywords. Each one runs TikTok's account search and returns a profile row for every account it finds, in TikTok's order. On a run where account search gives no accounts, they come from the videos matching the keyword instead, and a free ACCOUNTS_FROM_VIDEOS row says so.
maxProfilesPerSearch	10	How many accounts each keyword may return, 1 to 100.
moreDetails	false	Adds ttSeller, commerceUser, friendCount and region to each row. Each profile takes longer. A value not shown on that run stays null.
videosPerProfile	0	Optional add-on: up to this many of each account's newest videos, 0 to 10, right after its profile row. TikTok shows about 10 at most.
videosPostedAfter, videosPostedBefore	none	Optional: keep only latest videos posted in this range, dates like 2026-10-01 in UTC. Anything that is not a date stops the run before it starts, with a BAD_INPUT row.
minVideoLikes, maxVideoLikes	none	Optional add-on: keep only latest videos inside this like range. A video whose like count could not be read is left out.
excludePinnedVideos	false	Optional: leave out the videos pinned to the top of the profile, told apart by their place in the feed.
hashtags	none	Optional add-on: video rows under each hashtag.
videoSearchQueries	none	Optional add-on: video rows for each keyword. searchQueries finds accounts; this finds videos.
videoUrls	none	Optional add-on: one row per video link.
videosPerInput	10	How many videos each hashtag or keyword may return, 1 to 100.
includeSubtitles	false	Optional add-on: the subtitles TikTok publishes for each video, as text.
commentsPerVideo	0	Optional add-on: up to this many comments under each video row, 0 to 50.
repliesPerComment	0	Optional add-on: up to this many replies under each comment, 0 to 10.
saveProfilePicture	false	Optional add-on: keeps a copy of each profile picture in the run's own storage, which expires like the run's other data.
sessionCookies	none	Optional: your own session, used only for your run. You are responsible for using it within the site's terms. The field is stored encrypted.
proxyConfiguration	off	Leave it off. Your own servers are used exactly as given.
notionConnector, notionParentId	none	Optional. Write each profile into a Notion database as well as the dataset.

📤 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",
  "sourceInput": "tiktok",
  "sourceType": "profile",
  "privateAccount": false,
  "likedVideosHidden": true,
  "createTime": "2015-02-28T17:22:29.000Z",
  "bioLink": "tiktok.com/discovermore",
  "region": null
}

Field	How to read it
followingCount, diggCount	0 can mean the figure is hidden, not that it is zero.
heartCount	Lifetime likes received. This is the "total likes" number.
videoCount	How many videos are on the account at the time of the run, not how many it ever posted.
secUid	Stays the same when the creator renames the account, so track it rather than uniqueId.
avatar	Signed, and it stops working after a while. Download the image if you need to keep it.
sourceInput, sourceType	What you typed that found the row, and whether it was a profile (handle or link), a userId or a search. An account found twice comes once, under the first.
likedVideosHidden	true means the account keeps its liked videos private, so a diggCount of 0 there means "not shown".
createTime	When the account was made, in UTC.
bioLink	The link exactly as the profile shows it, often without https://. null when there is none.
region	A two-letter country code, on accounts found by keyword and with More account details on. null otherwise.
friendCount	Mutual follows: accounts that follow each other.
The newer columns	privateAccount to friendCount stay null on accounts of people under 18.
Video and comment rows	Only from accounts TikTok marks as adults. A video row links to the video's page; it never carries the video or sound file.
mentions	Tagged accounts as { "uniqueId", "id" }, only those TikTok marks as adults. null when the video's own page was not read, as on hashtag and keyword rows. Up to 5 new tagged accounts are checked per video; any past that are left out, so no unchecked account appears.

🧾 Reading the output

These kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Billed
A profile	ok: true and type: "profile"	yes
A video or comment from an add-on	type: "video" or type: "comment"	not while the add-on is off
The sample row	_sample: true	no
A diagnostic	ok: false and an errorCode	no

Filter on type == "profile" and you have your data. The sample row only turns up when the input was empty.

Code	What it means
NOT_FOUND	No profile came back for that handle. Treat them the same way: check the spelling, then try it again later.
NOT_SERVED	This profile or search was not served this run. Re-run it later. A keyword gets this when the search itself gave nothing that run, not when it looked and found nobody. Runs before 13 October 2026 wrote BLOCKED here.
ACCOUNTS_FROM_VIDEOS	This keyword's accounts come from videos matching it. Some won't have the word in their name. They are billed as profiles; this row is free.
TIME_LIMIT	The run neared its time limit and stopped, keeping every profile it had delivered. If no profile had come back by then, the run still ends as succeeded, with an amber status message.
NO_RESULTS	Nothing at all came back for the whole run.
OPTION_STARTS_SOON	An add-on you set was not on for this run (the add-ons start on 9 November 2026). Nothing was fetched or charged for it.
OPTION_OFF	An add-on needs another one, such as comments without any videos.
BAD_INPUT	A value could not be used, such as a link that is not a video link.
UNEXPECTED_ERROR	The run stopped early on an unexpected error. The results before this row are kept.

A handle that fails gets its own row and the run carries on to the next one. A keyword that finds no account gets a free NO_RESULTS row naming the search.

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

💡 What people use it for

• Refreshing follower and likes counts across a creator list every week, then comparing week to week.
• Checking a shortlist of creators before you commit to one, so no budget goes to a dead handle.
• Turning a column of handles from a spreadsheet into a table with real numbers next to it.
• Grabbing secUid for each account, the id that survives a handle change.
• Starting from a topic, not a list: a keyword like street food gives you the accounts and their numbers in one run.

From a hashtag to a creator shortlist, in three runs:

1. Run TikTok Hashtag Scraper on a tag in your niche and copy the author.uniqueId column.
2. Paste those handles into Usernames here and sort on followerCount.
3. Put the handles worth a closer look into the Profiles box of TikTok Scraper to see their newest videos and how they perform.

🚧 What it does not do

• No follower lists and no downloads. Videos and comments come as rows through the add-ons from 9 November 2026, never as files.
• followingCount and diggCount can be 0 when hidden. 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.
• Find accounts by keyword returns accounts, up to 100 per keyword, in the order TikTok's own account search gives them.
• It is not an official TikTok tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by TikTok, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which TikTok scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Follower and like counts for a list of handles, or the accounts behind a keyword	This one
A profile plus its newest videos, or the videos for a keyword	TikTok Scraper
Videos posted under a hashtag	TikTok Hashtag Scraper
Comments under a video	TikTok Comments Scraper
The hashtags ranking in a country right now	TikTok Trending Hashtags
The same kind of row for Instagram accounts	Instagram Profile Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a TikTok account to scrape TikTok profiles?

No. The cookie field is optional.

Why does a big account show 0 following?

Because the number is hidden for that account. The same goes for diggCount, the likes an account has given.

Can I get the account's videos too?

Yes, from 9 November 2026. Set Latest videos per account and each account's newest videos come as rows right after its profile row, at $0.25 per 1,000 videos on the Free plan. TikTok shows about 10 per account. Before that day, use TikTok Scraper, which returns the profile row plus the newest videos on the grid.

Can I find TikTok accounts without knowing their handles?

Yes. Type a keyword into Find accounts by keyword and every account TikTok's search turns up comes back as a full row, up to 100 per keyword. A numeric user id in Usernames works as well.

Why do the numbers differ from what I see in the app?

Counts move all the time, so two reads an hour apart disagree slightly on a big account and neither is wrong. If a field looks off, open the profile in a private browser window.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

The API tab has code for Python, JavaScript and the CLI. MCP clients like Claude and ChatGPT use https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/tiktok-user-scraper; coding assistants can load our skill file. All three bill your Apify account at the same price.

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("dami_studio/tiktok-user-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "profiles": ["tiktok"],
    },
    max_total_charge_usd=0.10,  # the most this run may spend
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row.get("ok") is False:  # free note rows, not results
        continue
    print(row.get("uniqueId"), row.get("followerCount"))

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.

🆘 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.