TikTok Trending Videos Scraper: Explore Feed by Category (No Login)

Collect the videos trending on TikTok right now, by category, without a TikTok account. Pick categories such as Comedy, Food, Sports, Beauty Care or Technology and get the videos TikTok's Explore page is pushing, with full stats.

• 21 categories: All, Singing & Dancing, Comedy, Sports, Anime & Comics, Relationship, Shows, Lipsync, Daily Life, Beauty Care, Games, Society, Outfit, Cars, Food, Animals, Family, Drama, Fitness & Health, Education, Technology.
• Deep: up to about 600 unique trending videos per category per run (median age about 1–2 weeks).
• Every video: caption, publish time, views, likes, comments, shares, saves, hashtags, mentions, duration, sound, author with follower count, AI-generated and ad flags.
• Trend tracking: schedule it with "only new videos" to get each newly trending video once.

Reliable, no login needed

Tested across all 21 categories: 2,100/2,100 videos delivered in 41 seconds, every core field at 100%.

Input

{
  "categories": ["Food", "Beauty Care", "Technology"],
  "maxVideosPerCategory": 100,
  "newerThan": "7 days"
}

The feed is TikTok's United States Explore page.

Output sample

{
  "type": "video",
  "id": "7691816989643296032",
  "text": "It’s United States Property! Hit the road. #stateproperty #privateproperty #hittheroad #meme #viral",
  "createTimeISO": "2026-10-01T21:38:28.000Z",
  "playCount": 2700000,
  "hashtags": ["stateproperty", "privateproperty", "hittheroad", "meme", "viral"],
  "source": "trending",
  "category": "Comedy",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-12T15:01:03.416Z"
}

Every row also carries likes, comments, shares, saves, duration, sound and author fields, as in our other TikTok Actors. Field names are stable; missing values are explicit null. Each run writes a SUMMARY record.

Pricing

Event	Price per 1,000
Video	$2.00
Run start	$0.001 per run

Higher Apify plans get automatic discounts. Top 100 in 5 categories ≈ $1.00 per run. Videos already delivered by an "only new videos" monitor are never charged.

Trend radar (scheduled)

1. Pick your categories and set "onlyNewVideos": true.
2. Schedule it every few hours.
3. Each run delivers only videos that newly entered the trending feed: send them to Slack, a sheet or your content calendar.

API, n8n, Make

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/headply~tiktok-trending-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"categories":["Food"],"maxVideosPerCategory":50}'

n8n: Apify node → Run actor and get dataset, actor headply/tiktok-trending-scraper.

FAQ and limits

• Do I need a TikTok account? No.
• Other countries? The feed is the US Explore page.
• Trending hashtags or sounds ranking? Not a separate list: each video carries its hashtags and sound, so you can rank them yourself from the results.
• A creator's videos? Use TikTok Profile Scraper.
• Specific videos? Use TikTok Video Scraper.