# Video URL to Creator Profile — 3 Platforms (`funny_ground/social-video-profile-resolver`) Actor

Resolve YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram video URLs to creator profile links in bulk. HTTP-only, no residential proxy, from $0.40 per 1,000 successes.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/funny\_ground/social-video-profile-resolver.md
- **Developed by:** [Coor Yu](https://apify.com/funny_ground) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.40 / 1,000 resolved creator profiles

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Video URL to Creator Profile

Resolve public **YouTube**, **TikTok**, and **Instagram** video URLs to creator profile URLs in bulk.

This Actor is designed for lead enrichment, creator discovery, attribution, and social-media data cleanup. It uses lightweight HTTP requests only—**no browser and no residential proxy**.

### Pricing

- **FREE tier: $0.50 per 1,000 successful profile resolutions.**
- **BRONZE: $0.45 per 1,000 successes.**
- **SILVER and above: $0.40 per 1,000 successes.**
- A tiny Actor start event and normal Apify platform usage are charged separately; see the Pricing tab.
- Failed, private, deleted, invalid, and unsupported URLs do **not** incur the `profile-resolved` result fee.

Pricing maps directly to visible value: one `profile-resolved` event equals one successful creator profile row in the default dataset.

### Why it is fast and inexpensive

| Platform | Primary method | Network requests per URL |
| --- | --- | ---: |
| TikTok canonical URL | Extract `@username` from the URL | 0 |
| TikTok short/legacy URL | Public oEmbed, then redirect fallback | 1 normally |
| YouTube | Public oEmbed | 1 |
| Instagram | Server-rendered SEO metadata | 1 normally |

- Up to 200 concurrent input tasks.
- A separate Instagram concurrency limit reduces rate-limit spikes.
- Keep-alive HTTP connections, bounded retries, and exponential backoff.
- Dataset output is written in batches instead of one API call per item.
- Very large jobs can stream input from an Apify dataset in pages of 1,000 items.
- Invalid/private/removed links fail per item; one bad URL does not stop the run.

### Input

Paste mixed-platform URLs into `videoUrls`:

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173",
    "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR9EITCjN1w/"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 50,
  "instagramConcurrency": 15,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20,
  "includeFailed": true
}
```

For a much larger job, first place the URLs in a dataset and use:

```json
{
  "inputDatasetId": "YOUR_DATASET_ID",
  "urlField": "url",
  "maxConcurrency": 100
}
```

You can combine inline URLs and dataset input. The Actor processes both.

### Output

One dataset item is produced per input URL (unless `includeFailed` is `false`):

```json
{
  "index": 1,
  "inputUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "status": "ok",
  "creatorName": "Rick Astley",
  "creatorUsername": "RickAstleyYT",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@RickAstleyYT",
  "resolvedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "method": "oembed",
  "attempts": 1,
  "httpStatus": 200,
  "crawledAt": "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Every run also writes an `OUTPUT` record with totals, success rate, charged result count, spending-limit status, per-platform counts, error counts, duration, and throughput.

### Supported URL forms

- YouTube: `youtube.com/watch`, `youtu.be`, Shorts, Live, Embed, Music, and creator-qualified URLs.
- TikTok: canonical `@user/video/...`, photo posts, `vm.tiktok.com`, `vt.tiktok.com`, and legacy links.
- Instagram: Reels, posts, IGTV links, creator-qualified links, and share links.

### Important limitations

- Only public, currently available content can be resolved.
- Private, deleted, region-restricted, or age-restricted videos may return a failed item.
- The user's maximum run charge is respected. When the charge limit is reached, the Actor stops accepting new work and never returns unpaid successful profiles.
- Social platforms can change public endpoints or anti-bot behavior. Retries handle transient failures, but no scraper can promise 100% coverage without authenticated or proxy-backed access.
- The Actor intentionally does not configure Apify Proxy or any residential proxy group.

### Local development

```bash
npm install
npm test
npm run test:live
```

The live test resolves one current public URL per platform and makes real network requests. Unit tests do not use the network.

***

### 中文说明

输入 YouTube、TikTok、Instagram 的公开视频链接，批量返回达人主页链接。Actor 不启动浏览器、不使用住宅代理；支持高并发、失败重试、批量写入，以及从 Apify Dataset 分页读取超大任务。私密、已删除或地区受限视频会输出结构化失败原因，不会中断整批任务。

# Actor input Schema

## `videoUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram video URLs. Mixed platforms are supported.

## `inputDatasetId` (type: `string`):

Optional. Read an arbitrarily large URL list from an Apify dataset instead of placing all URLs in Actor input.

## `urlField` (type: `string`):

Field containing the video URL in each input dataset item.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of URLs processed at once. The Actor separately limits Instagram requests to reduce throttling.

## `instagramConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum simultaneous Instagram page requests.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries transient network errors, rate limits, and server errors with exponential backoff.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum time allowed for each individual HTTP request.

## `includeFailed` (type: `boolean`):

Write one diagnostic dataset item for invalid, unavailable, private, or failed URLs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
  ],
  "urlField": "url",
  "maxConcurrency": 50,
  "instagramConcurrency": 15,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20,
  "includeFailed": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("funny_ground/social-video-profile-resolver").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("funny_ground/social-video-profile-resolver").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@scout2015/video/6718335390845095173"
  ]
}' |
apify call funny_ground/social-video-profile-resolver --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,funny_ground/social-video-profile-resolver"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/P7mBMemuekNBpnSqY/builds/CDZ6BbRJGoz1QcgCY/openapi.json