TikTok Search API: Video Search by Keyword

Search TikTok videos by keyword and get each video's views, likes, comments, shares, saves, caption, hashtags, music, upload date and video URL, plus the creator's followers. It searches logged out: no TikTok account, cookies or proxy setup needed.

$0.25 per 1,000 videos on the Free and Starter plans ($0.21 Scale, $0.17 Business), with no start fee. The prefilled run (street food + cosplay, 50 each, 100 videos) costs about $0.025.

Real rows from one street food search:

Creator (author)	Caption (desc, shortened)	Views (plays)	Likes	Comments	Shares	Creator followers	Posted (createdAt)
@streetfoodiee	#streetfood #jajananstreetfood …	25.7M	466.7K	7,538	20.1K	512.7K	2024-04-08
@hughabroad	$0.70 burger 🍔 #hughabroad #streetfood	4.6M	139K	1,054	4,512	1.6M	2025-11-05
@juderusga	$30 street bread! #mexico🇲🇽 #mexicocity …	886.8K	101.3K	718	1,499	530.7K	2026-04-14
@dereats	Found a local street stall in China selling a $4 sirloin spaghetti set …	121.7K	5,725	55	412	2,671	2026-07-15

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Data returned

For every video matching your search keywords:

Field	Description
url	Direct link to the TikTok video
desc	Full caption / description
shortDesc	Caption cut to 120 characters, for tables
createdAt	Upload date (ISO 8601)
cover	Thumbnail image URL
dynamicCover	Animated thumbnail URL
videoUrl	Playable video URL
duration	Video length in seconds
authorId	Creator's TikTok user ID
author	Username (@handle)
nickname	Display name
verified	Verified account status
avatar	Profile picture URL
followers	Follower count
following	Following count
videoCount	Total videos published
authorLikes	Total likes across the creator's videos
plays	View count
likes	Like count
comments	Comment count
shares	Share count
bookmarks	Save/bookmark count
hashtags	Array of hashtag strings
musicTitle	Background track name
musicAuthor	Music creator
musicUrl	Music playback URL
keyword	Search keyword that matched this video
matchedKeywords	Every keyword in the run that found this video (one row and one charge per video)
id	TikTok video ID
embedUrl	Embeddable player URL

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Input

{
  "keywords": ["street food", "gym motivation"],
  "maxVideosPerKeyword": 100,
  "maxVideosTotal": 1000,
  "sortOrder": "mostViews",
  "datePosted": "thisMonth"
}

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	string[]	—	One or more search terms. Required.
maxVideosPerKeyword	integer	100	Cap per keyword — set as high as you need
maxVideosTotal	integer	1000	Hard cap across all keywords combined
sortOrder	string	relevance	relevance keeps TikTok's order; mostRecent and mostViews re-sort the collected videos
datePosted	string	allTime	allTime, today, thisWeek, thisMonth, 3months, 6months (applied to the collected videos, so a narrow window can return fewer than your max)
includePhotoPosts	boolean	false	Include photo carousel posts alongside videos

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Output example

{
  "keyword": "street food",
  "matchedKeywords": ["street food"],
  "id": "7566677026967538966",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@hughabroad/video/7566677026967538966",
  "desc": "$0.70 burger 🍔 #hughabroad #streetfood",
  "createdAt": "2025-11-05T23:00:00Z",
  "duration": 86,
  "author": "hughabroad",
  "nickname": "Hugh Abroad",
  "verified": false,
  "followers": 1600000,
  "videoCount": 911,
  "authorLikes": 79600000,
  "plays": 4600000,
  "likes": 139000,
  "comments": 1054,
  "shares": 4512,
  "bookmarks": 7757,
  "hashtags": ["streetfood"],
  "musicTitle": "original sound - Hugh Abroad"
}

Shortened: the real record also has shortDesc, cover, dynamicCover, videoUrl, authorId, avatar, following, musicAuthor, musicUrl and embedUrl.

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Use cases

Content research — see what's working in any niche, filtered by date or sorted by views.

Influencer discovery — search by topic and filter by engagement metrics and follower counts to find creators worth reaching out to.

Competitor monitoring — track what videos are being published in your space, who's gaining traction, and how audiences are responding.

Market research — watch how many videos, views and comments a brand, product or category gets over time.

Social listening — track keywords, hashtags, and topics across TikTok at scale.

Dataset building — collect labeled TikTok video data for machine learning, classification, or analysis projects.

Trend detection — pull recent videos on a keyword and watch engagement patterns to catch rising topics early.

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Related Actors

• The same keywords on Threads: Threads Search Scraper returns the Threads posts that match a keyword or hashtag, with likes, replies and dates.
• Comments under the videos you found: pass the videoUrl fields to TikTok Comments API.
• What is said in the videos: TikTok Transcript API returns the transcript from TikTok's own captions.

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Pricing

$0.25 per 1,000 videos on the Free and Starter plans, $0.21 on Scale and $0.17 on Business, with no start fee. You pay only for videos saved to the dataset, and a video found by several keywords is charged once.

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FAQ

Is there an official TikTok search API? TikTok's official Research API includes video search, but only for approved academic researchers. This Actor gives you the public search results TikTok's website shows, as structured data, with no application or approval.

Does it require a TikTok account or login? No. It searches TikTok logged out and never asks for your cookies or credentials.

Does it require a proxy? No proxy configuration is required from you.

How many results can I get per keyword? It depends on how many results TikTok returns for that search term. The Actor paginates automatically until TikTok has no more results or your limit is reached. In our 2026-09-26 test with a cap of 150 per keyword, street food returned all 150 and cosplay returned 135.

Can I search multiple keywords at once? Yes — pass an array and every keyword is searched in one run, with all results combined into a single dataset. A video found under several keywords is one row and one charge: keyword is the first keyword that found it and matchedKeywords lists every keyword that did.

Can I filter by date or sort by views? Yes. Use datePosted to keep recent videos (today, this week, this month, 3 months, 6 months) and sortOrder to sort by most recent or most viewed. Both apply to the videos collected for your keyword.

How fresh are the results? Results come directly from TikTok's live search index — the same videos you'd see searching on TikTok.com at that moment.

Are the counts exact? They're whole numbers exactly as TikTok returns them. TikTok itself rounds large counts, so views and followers often look like 25700000.

What regions does it cover? Defaults to US region results. TikTok's search index includes global public content.

Is the data ready to use without further processing? Yes. Every field is typed — integers are integers, dates are ISO 8601 strings, booleans are booleans. Drop it straight into a spreadsheet, database, or downstream API.

How do I leave feedback? If the data helped, a short review on the Actor's Store page helps other buyers find it. Found a problem? Open an issue on the Issues tab and we'll fix it.

Calling it via API? Use deepmine/tiktok-search-api (was sentry/tiktok-search-api before September 3, 2026), or the Actor ID 1SpIR6vF0cL8oUfaU, which never changed.