📈 Track TikTok performance, day by day

$0.10 per 1,000 videos, and $0.05 on any paid Apify plan. About 30x cheaper than the usual TikTok scraper on the free plan.

A versatile, low-cost TikTok scraper for people who watch numbers: agencies, brands, creators and analysts who want to see how every video and every profile evolves, day after day. Views, likes, comments, shares and saves for each video, exact follower counts for each profile, and the comments themselves when you want to know what the audience is saying.

Give it a list of profiles or hashtags, run it on a schedule, and every run is a fresh snapshot you can compare with yesterday's. No login, no cookies, no browser automation on your side.

Why this scraper

• 💸 Cheap enough to run every day. $0.10 per 1,000 videos on the free plan, $0.05 on paid plans. Comments and replies are $0.05 per 1,000 ($0.025 on paid plans), and only when you ask for them.
• 🎯 High-quality data. Profile numbers are exact (1,881,247 followers, not "1.9M"). Every video comes with the same clean, structured fields, ready for a spreadsheet, a dashboard or a database.
• 📈 Built for tracking evolution. Schedule a daily run over your profiles and watch views, likes, comments, shares and saves grow video by video, and followers and total likes grow profile by profile.
• 🧰 Versatile. Up to 1,000 profiles and 100 hashtags per run, newest or oldest videos first, any date range (for an old period of a big profile the run jumps straight to it), comments with their replies, reposts, and only the columns you choose.
• 🛡️ You only pay for what you get. Charged per video and per comment delivered. A run that returns nothing costs nothing, and options this Actor does not offer are refused before anything is collected.

What you get

For every video: the link, the caption, hashtags and mentions, the publish date, view, like, comment, share, save and repost counts, and three organized blocks:

• authorMeta: the profile, with nickname, bio, bio link, avatar, verified, account creation date, followers, following, friends, total likes and video count (exact numbers, not rounded).
• musicMeta: the sound, with name, author, original or not, duration and cover.
• videoMeta: duration, width, height, quality, format and cover.

Photo slideshows come with every photo, and the tagged location and effects come too. Turn on comments and each video carries its comments, each comment carrying its replies.

You choose the columns. Keep only the fields you need and you get clean columns instead of a wall of JSON you have to clean up later.

The layout follows the most used TikTok scraper on Apify, so switching doesn't break your integration.

How to use it

1. In the Profiles block, add profiles: a handle (nasa), @nasa or a profile URL (https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa). Set Videos per profile and pick Sort videos by: Latest or Oldest.
2. In the Hashtags block, add hashtags: fyp, #fyp or https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp, and set Videos per hashtag. Fill in profiles, hashtags or both.
3. Optionally, add Reposts under Profile sections.
4. Optionally, set Comments per video and Replies per comment.
5. Optionally, narrow it down under Date range.
6. Optionally, pick the columns under Fields to return.
7. Run it, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
profiles	array	—	Profiles to scrape: handle, @handle or URL (up to 1,000)
hashtags	array	—	Hashtags to scrape: tag, #tag or URL (up to 100)
resultsPerHashtag	integer	resultsPerPage	Videos per hashtag, from 10 to 10,000
resultsPerPage	integer	100	Videos per profile, from 10 to 10,000 (a profile with fewer returns all it has); with reposts, also the maximum reposts
profileSorting	string	latest	Profiles: latest or oldest
profileScrapeSections	array	["videos"]	videos, reposts, or both
commentsPerPost	integer	0	Comments included with each video (up to 1,000)
maxRepliesPerComment	integer	0	Replies included under each comment (up to 1,000); a video carries at most 3,000 comments and replies in total
oldestPostDateUnified	string	—	Only videos published on or after this date
newestPostDate	string	—	Only videos published before this date
selectedFields	array	every field (the form pre-selects the main ones)	Which columns to return (comments always come when requested)

Field names match the ones used by the most used TikTok profile scraper, so a profile-based input written for that Actor works here. Handles are not case-sensitive, and profile URLs may carry extra parts such as ?lang=en.

At least one profile or hashtag is required.

Options this Actor does not offer (popular sorting, stories, search, post URLs, downloads, followers lists, likes and views filters) are refused before anything is collected. The reason is in OUTPUT.

Pinned videos

Videos always come strictly by publish date. Pinned videos are ignored as pinned: they never jump to the top of the list. A pinned video shows up at its own date, like any other video. excludePinnedPosts is accepted.

Example input

{
  "profiles": ["nasa", "khaby.lame"],
  "resultsPerPage": 50,
  "profileSorting": "latest",
  "commentsPerPost": 20
}

A profile's first videos

{
  "profiles": ["zachking"],
  "resultsPerPage": 30,
  "profileSorting": "oldest"
}

Oldest starts at the profile's very first video, and stays fast on large profiles.

Hashtags

{
  "hashtags": ["footballedit", "receitasfaceis"],
  "resultsPerHashtag": 100,
  "oldestPostDateUnified": "7 days"
}

Videos come newest first, every one carrying the hashtag. Each item has input (the hashtag) and searchHashtag (name, videoCount). The results are the hashtag's recent public videos, not the full history of a hashtag with millions of posts.

Filter by date

oldestPostDateUnified and newestPostDate take:

• a date: 2025-01-31
• an ISO timestamp: 2025-01-31T18:00:00Z (no time zone means UTC)
• a relative period: 3 days, 2 weeks, 6 months, 1 year (also minutes and hours)

{
  "profiles": ["zachking"],
  "resultsPerPage": 1000,
  "oldestPostDateUnified": "2024-01-01",
  "newestPostDate": "2025-01-01"
}

That returns everything zachking published in 2024.

resultsPerPage counts only videos inside the dates. Videos outside them are never delivered and never charged.

The date range applies to profile videos and hashtag videos. Reposts come in TikTok's order, newest reposts first, without a date filter.

Output

{
  "id": "7689510970292489502",
  "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7689510970292489502",
  "text": "Ye… I’m gonna mind my business #learnfromkhaby #comedy",
  "createTimeISO": "2026-09-25T16:30:18.000Z",
  "playCount": 5700000,
  "diggCount": 690000,
  "commentCount": 15600,
  "shareCount": 39500,
  "collectCount": 33612,
  "hashtags": ["learnfromkhaby", "comedy"],
  "authorMeta": { "name": "khaby.lame", "nickName": "Khabane lame", "verified": true, "fans": 162966356, "heart": 2683467682, "video": 1356 },
  "musicMeta": { "musicName": "original sound", "musicAuthor": "Khabane lame", "musicOriginal": true, "duration": 26 },
  "videoMeta": { "duration": 26, "width": 720, "height": 1280, "definition": "720p", "format": "mp4" },
  "input": "khaby.lame",
  "fromProfileSection": "videos",
  "comments": [
    {
      "text": "KHABY LAME 💪🏿",
      "diggCount": 9890,
      "replyCount": 17,
      "authorUsername": "someone",
      "replies": [{ "text": "Yooow", "diggCount": 16, "authorUsername": "someone.else" }]
    }
  ]
}

Above about 10,000, TikTok itself rounds video views and likes to 3 digits (5,700,000), on its website too. Profile numbers in authorMeta are exact.

Every field

Field	Type	What it is
id	string	Video ID
webVideoUrl	string	Link to the video
text	string	Full caption
textLanguage	string	Caption language
createTime / createTimeISO	integer / string	Publish time, Unix seconds / ISO UTC
playCount	integer	Views
diggCount	integer	Likes
commentCount	integer	Comments
shareCount	integer	Shares
collectCount	integer	Saves
repostCount	integer	Reposts
hashtags	array	Hashtags in the caption
mentions	array	Handles mentioned in the caption
detailedMentions	array	Mentioned profiles with ID and link
isAd	boolean	Paid ad
isSlideshow	boolean	Photo slideshow instead of a video
slideshowImageLinks	array	Every photo of a slideshow
location	object	Tagged place: name, address, city, country
effectStickers	array	Effects used
authorMeta	object	Profile (see above)
musicMeta	object	Sound (see above)
videoMeta	object	Video file details (see above)
input	string	The profile or hashtag you asked for
fromProfileSection	string	videos or reposts (profiles only)
searchHashtag	object	Hashtag items only: name, videoCount
comments	array	Comments: id, text, stickerUrl (sticker and GIF comments), diggCount, replyCount, createTimeISO, authorUsername, authorNickname, authorProfileUrl, likedByAuthor, pinnedByAuthor, language, and replies when requested (same fields, without replyCount)
commentsIncomplete	boolean	Fewer comments than requested could be collected

Cover and avatar links are temporary, as on TikTok itself: download them soon after the run. Video and audio files are not included.

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, XML or RSS.

API

Every run is available over the Apify API. Replace <TOKEN> with your API token from Settings → Integrations.

Run and wait for the results

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "profiles": ["nasa"],
        "resultsPerPage": 50
      }'

Best for small and medium jobs. The connection stays open until the run ends, so keep a generous client timeout.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<TOKEN>")

run = client.actor("<ACTOR_ID>").call(run_input={
    "profiles": ["nasa"],
    "resultsPerPage": 100,
    "commentsPerPost": 20,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["webVideoUrl"], item["playCount"], len(item.get("comments", [])))

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<TOKEN>' });

const run = await client.actor('<ACTOR_ID>').call({
    profiles: ['nasa'],
    resultsPerPage: 100,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length);

Run summary

Besides the dataset, each run writes an OUTPUT record to the key-value store with a summary per profile and per hashtag:

{
  "ok": true,
  "total_items": 150,
  "total_comments": 2400,
  "profiles": [
    { "profile": "nasa", "count": 100, "comments": 1600 },
    { "profile": "khaby.lame", "count": 50, "comments": 800 },
    { "hashtag": "footballedit", "count": 100 }
  ]
}

With reposts, each profile also has sections (videos and reposts counted apart). A profile can carry notes, for example reposts could not be collected right now, please try again later or no reposts found. The summary has timed_out: true when the run reached its time limit and charge_limit_reached: true when it reached the maximum cost you set.

When a profile cannot be completed, its entry carries an error field and the videos already collected stay in the dataset. The error is one of:

error	What it means	What to do
profile not found or unavailable	The handle does not exist, was renamed or banned	Check the handle
profile is private	The profile is private	Nothing: only public profiles can be read
no public videos found	The profile has no public videos	Check the profile
no videos published in the requested date range	Nothing inside your dates	Widen the range
could not be collected right now, please try again later	A temporary problem on TikTok's side	Run that profile again later
collection stopped early, please try again later for the rest	Some videos were collected, then a temporary problem stopped it	Run again later for the rest
the run time limit was reached before this profile finished; videos collected so far are in the dataset	The run's timeout arrived mid-profile	Give the run a longer timeout
not started: run time limit reached	The timeout arrived before this profile's turn	Give the run a longer timeout
not started: the maximum cost set for this run was reached	The run reached the maximum cost you set	Raise it, or run the rest separately
not started: TikTok is refusing requests right now, please try again later	TikTok refused several profiles in a row	Run again later
not a valid TikTok profile	The entry is not a handle or profile URL	Fix the entry
hashtag not found	The hashtag does not exist	Check the hashtag
not a valid hashtag	The entry has spaces or invalid characters	Fix the entry

Sizing the timeout. Without comments, a run collects several hundred videos per minute. With 50 comments per video, 100 videos take about 2 minutes. When the timeout is close, the run stops on its own, writes this summary and finishes as Succeeded, keeping everything collected so far.

What people use this for

• Daily tracking of views, likes, comments, shares and saves per video.
• Influencer vetting: reach versus engagement over the last videos.
• Content research: which videos, hashtags and sounds perform.
• Comment analysis: what the audience says, with replies.
• Hashtag monitoring: the newest videos of a hashtag, every day.
• Period reports for a month, quarter or campaign.

Frequently asked questions

Can I get the comment text? Yes. Set commentsPerPost, and maxRepliesPerComment for the replies. They come inside each video, most relevant first. Comments that are only a sticker or GIF come with stickerUrl.

Why are some views rounded? TikTok publishes video views and likes rounded to 3 digits above about 10,000, on its own website too. That is the number TikTok gives out. Profile numbers (followers, total likes) are exact.

Can I choose which columns I get? Yes. Pick them in Fields to return (selectedFields). Leave it empty and you get every field. Comments are always included when you ask for them.

Can I sort by most viewed? No. Videos come by publish date. Pull the period you care about and sort by playCount in your spreadsheet.

Why is an old pinned video not at the top? Pinned videos are ignored as pinned. The list is always by publish date, so "Latest" really is the latest, and each pinned video appears at its own date.

How many videos can I get from a hashtag? Up to resultsPerHashtag, newest first. Large hashtags usually return a few hundred recent videos per run; a smaller hashtag can return fewer than you ask for.

Can I scrape private profiles? No. Only public profiles return data. A private profile is skipped and marked in OUTPUT, and the rest of the run continues.

What happens if one profile fails? The other profiles keep going. Videos already collected stay in the dataset, and the OUTPUT record marks that profile with an error field.

Can I ask for more videos than the profile has? Yes. You get everything available and the run ends normally.

Do I need a proxy or a login? No. There is nothing to configure: no cookies, no session, no browser.

What are reposts? Videos from other accounts that the profile reposted. authorMeta is the original author, and input is the profile that reposted it.

How much does it cost?

	Free plan	Any paid Apify plan
Videos	$0.10 per 1,000	$0.05 per 1,000
Comments and replies	$0.05 per 1,000	$0.025 per 1,000

Charged per video and per comment delivered: each reply counts as one comment. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. If you set a maximum cost for a run, the run stops when it is reached, keeps everything collected so far, and says so in its status and in OUTPUT (charge_limit_reached).

How do I track a profile every day? Create a task with your profiles and schedule it daily in Apify. Each run is a snapshot of that day: join the runs by video id to see how playCount, diggCount, commentCount, shareCount and collectCount evolve, and by authorMeta.name to follow fans and heart. To pick up only new videos, set oldestPostDateUnified to 1 day.

Is this affiliated with TikTok? No. See the disclaimer at the bottom.

Notes and limits

• Only public profiles are supported.
• A profile that is unavailable is skipped with a warning; the other profiles in the same run continue normally.
• Requesting more videos than a profile has simply returns everything available.

Support

Found a bug or need a field that is not on the list? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the input you used and the run ID.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TikTok or ByteDance Ltd. It collects only publicly available content. You are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with applicable laws and the target site's terms.