TikTok Comments API

A TikTok comments scraper for any video: paste video URLs, IDs or short links (or a creator's profile) and get the comments and their replies that TikTok shows as clean rows: likes, reply counts, post time, each comment's share link, the commenter's name, photo, username and badge, language, mentions, images, stickers and photo or video replies when the comment has them, and (optional) the commenter's bio, follower counts and large photo.

💬 Comment	🧩 Type	↪️ Reply	❤️ Likes	↩️ Replies	📅 Posted	🛒 Purchase Intent	🔗 Video
Bro was ai before ai	Text	–	1,708,011	815	2026-06-25	–	@zachking
2m	Text	✔️	2,360	–	2026-06-25	–	@zachking
Ninja doesn’t want us to have any money.😩	Text	–	776	10	2026-06-22	–	@ninjakitchen
Just got mine today!!! It’s like Christmas	Image	–	90	13	2026-06-25	–	@ninjakitchen
Price please	Text	–	0	2	2026-09-04	✔️	@ninjakitchen
299 I just bought it at Costco	Text	✔️	0	–	2026-09-04	–	@ninjakitchen

$0.29 per 1,000 comments on the Starter plan ($0.29 Free, $0.28 Scale, $0.28 Business), replies counted as comments, commenter profiles included. The prefilled run (2 videos, 25 comments and 1 reply each) costs about $0.03.

Why this one

• Comments and replies in one table. Each reply sits right under its comment, marked isReply, with parentCommentId pointing at the comment (and replyToCommentId at the reply it answers, when it answers one), so threads stay readable in a spreadsheet.
• Videos or whole profiles. Paste video links, or usernames to get the comments of each creator's latest, most popular or oldest videos (reposts too), with date filters and pinned videos in or out. Looking up the profiles and their videos is free.
• TikTok's own order. Top comments first, as the app shows them, with rank for each; replies in the order TikTok lists them.
• No login, no cookies. Only what TikTok shows logged-out visitors. No account of yours is ever used.
• Everything about the comment and the commenter. The comment's share link, the video's caption, the commenter's name, photo, username, verified badge and secUid (on 99.8% of test rows; the rest came without an account); mentions (with the mentioned people's ids), images, stickers, and the photo or video post a commenter answered with, labelled in commentType, so no row is a blank you can't explain. Turn on Commenter profiles to add each commenter's large photo, bio, bio link, followers, following, likes, video count, join date and whether the bio shows an email or phone, at no extra charge.
• Spot buyers. isHighPurchaseIntent marks comments that ask where or how to buy, the price, a link, shipping or a catalog, or say the writer wants to buy. It's our own strict check of the text, not TikTok's flag: on 23 product videos it marked 312 of 1,518 comments, and about 99% of those really were buying questions; on 1,142 comments of entertainment videos it marked none (TikTok's own flag marked 162 there, none about buying). "I need this" alone doesn't count.
• $0.28 to $0.29 per 1,000 comments. No start fee, and commenter profiles cost nothing extra.
• Pay for rows, not attempts. Deleted videos, videos with comments off and invalid links are listed in the run summary and cost nothing; so would a comment with nothing in it (no text, image, sticker or post): it's counted as emptySkipped and doesn't use up a place in maxCommentsPerVideo.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
videos	Video URLs, vm.tiktok.com short links or video IDs, one per line.	2 example videos when neither videos nor profiles is given
maxCommentsPerVideo	Top-level comments per video, top comments first. Replies come on top.	25
includeReplies	Also get the replies to each comment, right under it.	off (on in the form)
maxRepliesPerComment	With includeReplies: replies per comment.	5 (1 in the form)
commenterProfiles	Also read each commenter's profile: large photo, bio, bio link, followers, following, likes, videos, join date, email or phone in the bio. Free but slower (1-2 seconds per new commenter).	off
profiles	Usernames or profile URLs: the comments of each creator's newest videos.	none
videosPerProfile	Videos per profile.	10
profileSorting	latest (newest first, pinned on top), popular (most played first) or oldest, as the profile's tabs. A date range with popular still applies but reads the whole Popular list (slower).	latest
profileSections	videos, reposts (videos they reposted) or both.	["videos"]
postedAfter	Profiles: only videos posted after this date (YYYY-MM-DD) or within a relative time (7 days).	all
postedBefore	Profiles: only videos posted before this date (the whole day counts).	all
excludePinnedPosts	Profiles: leave out pinned videos.	off
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy. Datacenter (the default) works; switch to residential only if a run reports blocks.	Apify datacenter

Example:

{
  "videos": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/7655004069190192398",
    "https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMabc1234/"
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 500,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 10
}

Or the newest videos of creators:

{
  "profiles": ["zachking", "https://www.tiktok.com/@nativetyfood"],
  "videosPerProfile": 5,
  "postedAfter": "2026-09-01",
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 100
}

Output

One row per comment or reply, video by video in the order of your links (then each profile's videos, newest first). Three table views in the Console:

• 📊 Overview: 🖼️ Photo, 🏷️ Username, 💬 Comment, 🧩 Type, 🔗 Comment, 🔗 Video, ↪️ Reply, ❤️ Likes, ↩️ Replies, 📅 Posted, 🏅 Rank, 🌐 Language
• 📈 Stats: 🏷️ Username, 🔗 Video, ↪️ Reply, 💖 Creator Liked, 🛒 Purchase Intent, ✔️ Verified, ❤️ Likes, ↩️ Replies, 📅 Posted, 🏅 Rank
• 👤 Commenter Profiles (with Commenter profiles on): 🖼️ Photo, 🏷️ Username, 👤 Commenter, ✔️ Verified, 👥 Followers, ❤️ Commenter Likes, 🎬 Commenter Videos, 🔒 Private, 📝 Commenter Bio, 📅 Joined, 💬 Comment

Output fields

Every row has these keys, in this order (the commenter... profile keys only with Commenter profiles on). A value TikTok didn't send is null (never an empty string or a made-up 0).

• commenterAvatar: the commenter's profile picture (TikTok's signed link; it stops working about a day after the run, so save the image the same day if you need it).
• commenterName: the commenter's display name.
• text: the comment's full text, emoji included (null when the comment is only a sticker, an image or a post; commentType says which).
• textSnippet: its first 50 characters on one line, for tables.
• commenterUsername: the commenter's TikTok username, without @.
• commenterUrl: the commenter's profile on TikTok.
• videoUrl: the video the comment is on.
• commentUrl: the comment's share link, as TikTok's own Share button gives it: the video's page with the comment's id (share_comment_id). TikTok's website opens the video with it, not the comment itself (checked in a logged-out browser, 2026-10-01).
• commentType: what the comment is: Text, Image, Sticker, or Photo post / Video post (the commenter answered with a TikTok post of their own; text is then empty and imageUrls or commentPostUrl hold it). A comment with text and an image or sticker says Image or Sticker.
• isReply: true for a reply to another comment.
• isPinned: pinned to the top of the comments by the video's creator, when TikTok says so; TikTok rarely tells logged-out visitors (0 of 2,660 test comments on 47 videos were marked pinned).
• isLikedByCreator: the video's creator liked the comment.
• commenterVerified: the commenter has a TikTok badge (verified account or popular creator).
• isHighPurchaseIntent: the comment asks where or how to buy it, its price, a link, shipping or a catalog, or says the writer wants to buy or order it. Our own check of the text, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Russian, Arabic and Indonesian; strict on purpose ("I need this" alone or "I bought one" doesn't count; comments in other languages are never marked). TikTok's own purchase-intent flag isn't used: it marks ordinary chatter.
• likes: likes on the comment.
• replies: replies to the comment, as TikTok counts them (null on a reply).
• postedAt: when it was posted (UTC).
• postedAtTimestamp: the same time as a Unix timestamp (seconds).
• rank: a comment's place among the video's comments in TikTok's order; a reply's place among its comment's replies. 1 = first.
• language: the comment's language as TikTok detects it (en, es, ...); null when TikTok can't tell.
• replyToUsername: on a reply to another reply, the username of the person it answers; otherwise null.
• mentions: names mentioned in the comment, as written, without @ (TikTok writes a mention as the person's display name).
• mentionedUsers: each person mentioned: name, userId, secUid, and username + profileUrl when TikTok gives them (for the person a reply answers).
• hashtags: hashtags written in the comment, without #; null when there are none, which is almost always (2 of 2,660 test comments had any).
• imageUrls: the pictures in the comment: an image comment's images, or the pictures of a photo post the commenter answered with (TikTok's signed links: comment images stop working 30 days after the run, photo-post pictures about 15 days after).
• stickerUrl: the sticker of a sticker comment, an animated WebP image (TikTok's signed link; it stops working 30 days after the run); otherwise null.
• commentPostUrl: for a Photo post / Video post comment, the TikTok post the commenter answered with; otherwise null.
• commenterAvatarLarge: the commenter's profile picture in the largest size their profile page shows (1080 px on all 42 readable test profiles; commenterAvatar is 100 px; TikTok's signed link, it stops working about 2 days after the run). Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterBio: the commenter's bio. Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterBioLinkUrl: the link in their bio. Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterFollowers: their followers (exact). Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterFollowing: accounts they follow. Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterLikes: total likes on all their videos. Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterVideos: their public videos. Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterPrivate: their account is private (TikTok then shows nothing else). Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterHasEmail: their bio shows an email address. Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterHasPhone: their bio shows a phone number. Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterLanguage: their TikTok app language (en, es, ...). Only with commenterProfiles.
• commenterJoinedAt: when their account was created (UTC). Only with commenterProfiles.
• commentId: TikTok's comment ID.
• parentCommentId: on a reply, the ID of the comment it replies to; null on a comment.
• replyToCommentId: on a reply to another reply, the ID of that reply (TikTok shows it as @name); otherwise null.
• commenterId: TikTok's user ID of the commenter.
• commenterSecUid: the commenter's secUid, the ID TikTok's own web API uses.
• videoId: TikTok's video ID.
• videoCaption: the caption of the video the comment is on, hashtags included. It comes with the comments; when TikTok leaves it out of a whole page, the Actor reads it from the video's page once, while the comments keep coming (captionFromVideoPage in the run summary). The video's first row doesn't wait for that read, so it can come without the caption (rowsBeforeCaption).
• commentStatus: TikTok's own status code for the comment: 1 on most comments, 11 on some replies (often spam or rude ones). TikTok doesn't document the codes.
• input: what you entered for this row, exactly as entered: the video URL or ID, a short link, or the profile the video was found on.
• profileSection: for a video found through a profile, the tab it came from: videos, or reposts (a video the creator reposted; its videoUrl names its own creator). null for videos you entered.
• scrapedAt: when it was collected (UTC).

Example rows (a buyer's question and the reply under it, from the prefilled run; the commenters' names, usernames, links, ids and photos are replaced here for privacy):

[
  {
    "commenterAvatar": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/commenter_1.jpeg",
    "commenterName": "Commenter 1",
    "text": "Price please",
    "textSnippet": "Price please",
    "commenterUsername": "commenter_1",
    "commenterUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@commenter_1",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ninjakitchen/video/7653941272524115231",
    "commentUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ninjakitchen/video/7653941272524115231?share_comment_id=7681797564283355934&share_item_id=7653941272524115231",
    "commentType": "Text",
    "isReply": false,
    "isPinned": false,
    "isLikedByCreator": false,
    "commenterVerified": false,
    "isHighPurchaseIntent": true,
    "likes": 0,
    "replies": 2,
    "postedAt": "2026-09-04T21:38:27Z",
    "postedAtTimestamp": 1788557907,
    "rank": 24,
    "language": "en",
    "replyToUsername": null,
    "mentions": null,
    "mentionedUsers": null,
    "hashtags": null,
    "imageUrls": null,
    "stickerUrl": null,
    "commentPostUrl": null,
    "commentId": "7681797564283355934",
    "parentCommentId": null,
    "replyToCommentId": null,
    "commenterId": "7000000000000000001",
    "commenterSecUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAcommenter1",
    "videoId": "7653941272524115231",
    "videoCaption": "Hear that? That's the sound of perfectly crisp meals and easy cleanup. 🔥   With dishwasher-safe baskets and Dual Zone cooking, the NEW Ninja Crispi™ makes every meal a win. 🏆   #NinjaCRISPiDualZone #AirFryer #GlassAirFryer",
    "commentStatus": 1,
    "input": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ninjakitchen/video/7653941272524115231",
    "profileSection": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T19:11:57Z"
  },
  {
    "commenterAvatar": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/commenter_2.jpeg",
    "commenterName": "Commenter 2",
    "text": "299 I just bought it at Costco",
    "textSnippet": "299 I just bought it at Costco",
    "commenterUsername": "commenter_2",
    "commenterUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@commenter_2",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ninjakitchen/video/7653941272524115231",
    "commentUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ninjakitchen/video/7653941272524115231?share_comment_id=7681812021696185101&share_item_id=7653941272524115231",
    "commentType": "Text",
    "isReply": true,
    "isPinned": false,
    "isLikedByCreator": false,
    "commenterVerified": false,
    "isHighPurchaseIntent": false,
    "likes": 0,
    "replies": null,
    "postedAt": "2026-09-04T22:34:31Z",
    "postedAtTimestamp": 1788561271,
    "rank": 1,
    "language": "en",
    "replyToUsername": null,
    "mentions": null,
    "mentionedUsers": null,
    "hashtags": null,
    "imageUrls": null,
    "stickerUrl": null,
    "commentPostUrl": null,
    "commentId": "7681812021696185101",
    "parentCommentId": "7681797564283355934",
    "replyToCommentId": null,
    "commenterId": "7000000000000000002",
    "commenterSecUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAcommenter2",
    "videoId": "7653941272524115231",
    "videoCaption": "Hear that? That's the sound of perfectly crisp meals and easy cleanup. 🔥   With dishwasher-safe baskets and Dual Zone cooking, the NEW Ninja Crispi™ makes every meal a win. 🏆   #NinjaCRISPiDualZone #AirFryer #GlassAirFryer",
    "commentStatus": 1,
    "input": "https://www.tiktok.com/@ninjakitchen/video/7653941272524115231",
    "profileSection": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T19:11:57Z"
  }
]

With commenterProfiles on, each row also has (a real commenter, their bio and link replaced):

{
  "commenterAvatarLarge": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/commenter_1~tplv-tiktokx-cropcenter:1080:1080.jpeg",
  "commenterBio": "(their bio)",
  "commenterBioLinkUrl": null,
  "commenterFollowers": 554,
  "commenterFollowing": 117,
  "commenterLikes": 1087,
  "commenterVideos": 47,
  "commenterPrivate": false,
  "commenterHasEmail": false,
  "commenterHasPhone": false,
  "commenterLanguage": "en",
  "commenterJoinedAt": "2022-02-05T12:54:45Z"
}

Run summary (OUTPUT)

{
  "results": 99,
  "inputs": [
    {"input": "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/7655004069190192398", "status": "ok", "results": 49, "stopReason": "max_results", "videoComments": 105311, "comments": 25, "replies": 24},
    {"input": "7600000000000000999", "status": "not_found", "results": 0, "stopReason": "not_found", "error": "video not found"}
  ],
  "profiles": [
    {"input": "zachking", "status": "ok", "results": 125, "stopReason": "max_results", "username": "zachking", "videos": 5}
  ],
  "commenterProfiles": {"read": 25, "private": 7, "missing": 0, "failed": 0, "gaveUp": false}
}

status per video: ok, partial (TikTok stopped answering partway, on every retry: the comments read before it are delivered, error says where, and the status message counts it; a comment whose replies TikTok refused comes without them, threadsWithoutReplies counts those), no_results (the video has no comments, or TikTok lists none: free), not_found (deleted or unavailable), invalid, blocked (TikTok refused it on every retry; the run fails so you notice, and rows already collected stay), stopped (your spending limit), timed_out (the run's time limit; see below). videoComments is TikTok's own count for the video, replies included. The same video given twice (a URL and a short link, or a link and a profile) comes back, and is charged, once. Videos found on a profile carry "profile" and "profileSection" in their entry (and their rows say the same in input and profileSection), and profiles lists each profile (ok, no_results when no video matches your filters, not_found, private, invalid, blocked) with the videos found and the rows delivered. With Commenter profiles on, commenterProfiles counts the profiles read, private (only that flag is known), missing (deleted accounts) and failed (TikTok refused the page; after 10 refusals in a row the run stops asking and the comments still all come back).

Good to know

• Not every comment. You get the comments TikTok shows logged-out visitors. TikTok's comment count for a video (videoComments) includes comments it hides or has deleted, so a full run returns fewer: on 12 product videos read to the end (2026-10-01), between 38% and 100% of the count came back, 82% for the median video. Those runs read comments only, and the count includes replies, which they didn't read.
• How deep can it go? TikTok pages comments 50 at a time and drops some from each page (deleted or hidden ones), so a page brings 25-36 comments; reply pages bring 16-25. maxCommentsPerVideo goes up to 50,000 and maxRepliesPerComment up to 1,000. A test run read 12,000 comments of one video in about 6.5 minutes (roughly 1,800 a minute per video; several videos run side by side). With replies on, count about one second per comment that has replies; with commenter profiles, 1-2 seconds per new commenter.
• Big runs stop cleanly. The default timeout is 6 hours. If a run gets near its timeout, it stops asking TikTok, delivers every comment already read, and says so in the status message (timeLimitReached in OUTPUT); raise the timeout in the run options or split the input to get the rest. Comments come back video by video in your order; while one video is being read, the next ones read ahead only a few thousand comments, so memory stays flat at 256 MB however deep you go.
• Reply counts include deleted replies. TikTok's replies number counts replies it no longer shows, so a comment can list fewer replies than its count.
• Photo and video replies. TikTok lets people answer a comment with a post of their own. Those replies have no text: the row says Photo post or Video post, with the post's link and, for a photo post, its pictures. On product videos many of them come from other sellers advertising.
• Commenter profiles cost time, not money. Each new commenter's profile is one more page (1-2 seconds; a live run read 63 profiles for 69 comments in under 2 minutes); a commenter who shows up twice is read once. TikTok doesn't show a commenter's region on its website to logged-out visitors, so rows don't include it.
• Counts are exact. Likes and reply counts come as TikTok sends them for comments, not rounded.

Pricing

Pay per result, no start fee and no minimum. Example: 1,000 comments cost $0.29 on the Starter plan, with or without commenter profiles.

Your Apify plan	Per 1,000 comments
Free	$0.29
Starter	$0.29
Scale	$0.28
Business	$0.28

Each comment and each reply is one row. Videos without comments, deleted videos and invalid inputs cost nothing. When your spending limit is reached, the run stops.

FAQ

Do I need a TikTok account? No. The Actor reads only what TikTok shows logged-out visitors.

Can I get comments for every video of a creator or a hashtag? For a creator, yes: put the username in profiles and set videosPerProfile (up to 1,000). For a hashtag or a search, get the video links first with TikTok Profile & Videos API, TikTok Hashtag Videos API or TikTok Video Search API, then pass their videoUrl fields in here.

What about what people say in the video itself? Use TikTok Transcript API for the spoken words.

Is it legal? The Actor collects only public comments and never logs in. Comments are personal data under laws such as the GDPR: use them only for a legitimate purpose, and check with a lawyer if unsure.

Feedback

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