TikTok Video Downloader - MP4 or MP3

Download public TikTok videos as MP4 files, or their sound as MP3: paste video links and get each one back as a real file, stored in the run with a direct link you can hand to a browser, a script or the next step of a workflow.

The honest part first. This pulls the copy TikTok serves for playback, so most videos arrive without a logo, but an uploader who burned the TikTok watermark into their own video is stuck with it and nothing here can take it out. Photo posts, slideshows, profiles, sounds, hashtags and live streams are not videos this can download, and some posts TikTok only serves in certain countries.

Input	Links to single public TikTok videos
Output	One MP4, or a 128 kbit/s MP3, per link in the run's storage, plus a row per file with its direct link, size, length and resolution
Ceiling	500 MB per video by default, up to 4,000, and about 716 MB of files per run at the default memory
Speed	Roughly 2 to 8 seconds per short video on measured runs, plus the run's start
Account needed	None, and no cookies
Price	$1.00 per 1,000 MB delivered, which is $0.001 a megabyte, flat on every plan. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 5,000 MB

🔍 What TikTok Video Downloader does

One link in, one file out. It reads what TikTok offers for that post, picks the best copy at or below the quality you asked for, downloads it, checks the file actually plays as video or audio, stores it, and writes a row with a link to it.

Picture quality is measured on the short side, so 1080 means 1920x1080 for a landscape video and 1080x1920 for a vertical one. A video TikTok does not have at that size comes back at the closest it does have.

Links to Facebook, X or YouTube are not refused blindly: the run tells you which of our downloaders takes them. Duplicate links to the same post are skipped rather than downloaded twice.

📋 What data you get from each TikTok download

What you get	Field
The link you gave, and the site	url, host
The caption, used as the title	title
The creator's handle	author
Length and picture size, measured on the finished file	durationSeconds, resolution
File type and size	format, fileSizeBytes
What the file counted as for billing	billedMegabytes
Where the file is: its record name and a direct link	mediaKey, mediaUrl
Every link that did not produce a file, with the reason	ERRORS record in the key-value store

▶️ How to download TikTok videos

1. Open TikTok Video Downloader and click Try for free.
2. Paste your links into TikTok video links, one per line, replacing the example.
3. Pick a Max quality, or tick Audio only (MP3) if you only want the sound.
4. Leave Max megabytes per video alone unless you want a tighter cap, then click Start.
5. Take the files from Storage, or follow mediaUrl from each row.

💰 How much does it cost to download TikTok videos?

$0.001 for every megabyte delivered. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 5,000 MB.

A file counts as whole megabytes, rounded up, and each row tells you its own figure in billedMegabytes. So a 5.1 MB video counts as 6.

Nothing is charged per megabyte for a link that fails, a video refused for being over your limit, a post that is not a video, or a link that belongs on another actor. Those never move any bytes.

Quality is the lever. A 360p copy of the same post is a fraction of the megabytes of the 1080p one, and audioOnly is smaller again.

📥 What you give it

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/7047596209028074758"
  ],
  "quality": "1080",
  "audioOnly": false,
  "maxMegabytes": 500
}

Field	Default	What it is
urls	none (the box holds one example link)	One link per line, each to a single TikTok video. vm. and vt. short links, m. links and embed links are understood. Required.
quality	1080	best, 1080, 720, 480 or 360, measured on the short side. A bigger picture is a bigger file, and you pay by the megabyte.
audioOnly	false	Save the sound as a 128 kbit/s MP3 instead of the video.
maxMegabytes	500	A video bigger than this is skipped before anything is downloaded, and it costs you nothing. One run holds roughly 70% of its memory in files, so raise the run's memory for anything large.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run, with the signed link trimmed:

{
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/7047596209028074758",
  "host": "tiktok",
  "title": "TikTok video #7047596209028074758",
  "author": "hankgreen1",
  "durationSeconds": 21.27,
  "resolution": "576x1024",
  "format": "mp4",
  "fileSizeBytes": 5076682,
  "billedMegabytes": 6,
  "mediaKey": "tiktok-7047596209028074758.mp4",
  "mediaUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/83C4HbXaY1Dk88AHA/records/tiktok-7047596209028074758.mp4?signature=..."
}

Field	How to read it
mediaUrl	The direct link to the file. It works without a token, so you can pass it straight to whatever comes next.
mediaKey	The name of the record in the run's key-value store, tiktok-<id>.mp4 or .mp3.
fileSizeBytes	The size of the file that was actually stored, checked against the stored copy after upload.
durationSeconds, resolution	Measured on the finished file, not taken from the page.
title	The caption. A post with no caption gets TikTok video #<id>, as above.

🧾 Reading the output

Two places to look, and they never mix.

Where	What is in it	Billed
The dataset	One row per file that was delivered and checked	yes, by the megabyte
ERRORS in the key-value store	A list of {url, error} for every link that did not produce a file, written as each one happens	no

A link that fails never reaches the dataset, so a row in the dataset means a file exists. The error text says what happened in plain words: the post is not a video, the post is only served in some countries, the file is over your limit, the link belongs on another actor.

If not a single link produced a file, the run finishes as failed rather than pretending it worked.

💡 What people use it for

• Keeping your own posts as files, instead of trusting an app's download button.
• Feeding clips into an editing or captioning step that needs a real file rather than a page.
• Pulling the sound out of a set of posts as MP3s, for transcription or a music check.
• Archiving a reference set of videos for a report, a pitch or a legal record.

From a video with no captions to a transcript, in three runs:

1. Run TikTok Transcript Scraper on your links and copy the url of every row whose errorCode is NO_TRANSCRIPT.
2. Paste those links here with Audio only (MP3) ticked.
3. Give each row's mediaUrl to Video & Audio Transcriber in its mediaUrls box, with your own OpenAI key.

🚧 What it does not do

• It cannot remove a watermark that is part of the video. The playback copy is what gets downloaded, so a logo the uploader baked in stays.
• Photo posts and slideshows are not downloaded. Neither are profiles, sound pages, hashtag pages or live streams. Each gets a line in ERRORS saying so.
• Country-limited posts fail. If TikTok only serves a post in some places, the run reports that rather than guessing.
• Private and deleted posts are out of reach, the same as they are in a browser.
• One link is one video. Give it a profile and it will not walk that account's posts.
• The file is the file. No trimming, resizing or re-encoding happens here.
• Short links are accepted but less tested than full tiktok.com/@name/video/<id> links, so prefer the full form where you have it.
• Files live in the run's storage and go when the run's data is cleaned up. Copy anything you want to keep.

🧭 Which downloader do you need?

If you want	Use
A public TikTok video as MP4, or its sound as MP3	This one
A YouTube video, its audio or its subtitles as a file	YouTube Downloader Pro
A public Facebook video or reel	Facebook Video Downloader
The spoken words rather than the file	TikTok Transcript Scraper
Video links to feed in, from a hashtag	TikTok Hashtag Scraper
Video links to feed in, from a profile or a keyword search	TikTok Scraper
To post a video to your own TikTok account	TikTok Video Uploader Pro

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a TikTok account or cookies to download videos?

No. Public posts only, and nothing is logged in.

Will the TikTok video have a watermark?

Usually not, because the playback copy is what is fetched. If the uploader burned one into the video itself, it is in the file and it stays.

Can I download a whole TikTok profile?

Not here. This takes one video link at a time. Collect the links first with one of the scrapers in the table above, then feed them in.

What if a link is dead or private?

It lands in ERRORS with the reason and costs you nothing per megabyte. The rest of the links carry on.

Can I get just the audio?

Yes. Tick audioOnly and each link comes back as a 128 kbit/s MP3 of that video's own sound.

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

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/tiktok-video-downloader. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is downloading a TikTok video legal?

Copyright sits with whoever made the video, and TikTok's terms apply to you as a user. Downloading your own posts or material you have rights to is the safe ground. 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. Send the link that failed and the run ID, and paste the line for it from the ERRORS record. That line usually names the problem on its own.