### Not your cup of tea? Build your own scraper.\*\*
TikTok Profile Scraper doesn’t exactly do what you need?
You can always build your own! Use one of [scraper templates](https://apify.com/templates) in Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript to get started.
Alternatively, you can write it from scratch using our [open-source library Crawlee](https://crawlee.dev/). You can keep the scraper to yourself or make it public by adding it to Apify Store and [start making money](https://blog.apify.com/how-to-scrape-tiktok-tutorial/) on it.
Or let us know if you need a [custom scraping solution](https://apify.com/custom-solutions).
### **Your feedback**
We’re always working on improving our Actors' performance. If you have any technical feedback for TikTok Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s [Issues tab](https://console.apify.com/actors/0FXVyOXXEmdGcV88a/issues) in Apify Console.
### Error items
When the scraper cannot retrieve data for a given input — for example a profile is private or a post has been deleted — it pushes an **error item** to the dataset instead of silently skipping it. Normal output items are never affected; you can tell them apart by the presence of an `errorCode` field.
#### Error item structure
```json
{
"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@someuser",
"input": "someuser",
"error": "Profile is private",
"errorCode": "PROFILE_PRIVATE"
}
```
#### Error codes reference
| `errorCode` | Meaning |
| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `NOT_FOUND` | Profile or hashtag does not exist |
| `POST_NOT_FOUND_OR_PRIVATE` | Post URL is gone or private |
| `POST_SENSITIVE` | Post is flagged as sensitive content |
| `NO_TRENDING_FOR_HASHTAG` | No ads found for this hashtag |
| `MUSIC_NOT_FOUND` | No videos found for the music tag |
| `SEARCH_QUERY_NOT_FOUND` | No videos found for the search query |
| `SEARCH_QUERY_PROFILE_NOT_FOUND` | No profiles found for the search query |
| `FILTER_NO_PASS` | Videos exist but none match the active date/popularity filters |
| `PROFILE_EMPTY` | Profile has no videos (or is behind a login wall) |
| `PROFILE_REPOSTS_EMPTY` | Profile has no reposts (or is behind a login wall) |
| `PROFILE_STORIES_EMPTY` | Profile has no active story right now |
| `PROFILE_FOLLOWING_EMPTY` | Profile is not following anyone |
| `PROFILE_FOLLOWERS_EMPTY` | Profile has no followers |
| `PROFILE_PRIVATE` | Profile is private |
| `GOOGLE_RUN_NO_RESULTS` | Google-assisted run returned no results |
| `TRENDING_EMPTY` | Trending page returned no results |
| `INVALID_INPUT` | Actor failed due to bad configuration (run is also terminated) |
| `INVALID_URLS` | One or more start URLs were malformed |
***
### FAQ
#### How can I use TikTok Profile Scraper with the Apify API?
The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. [The API](https://apify.com/clockworks/tiktok-scraper/api/client/nodejs) is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.
To access the API using Node.js, use the `apify-client` NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the `apify-client` PyPI package.
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