TikTok Scraper: Videos, Hashtags, Profiles & Comments

What does TikTok Scraper do?

TikTok Scraper gets TikTok videos from hashtags, sounds, profiles and video links, with views, likes, comments, shares and saves, the author's follower counts, the sound and the hashtags, one flat row per video. Add each video's comments and replies as rows of their own. No login, no account, no cookies of yours.

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Try it in one click: the input comes pre-filled with NASA's profile. That's 10 results (its 10 latest videos), or about $0.035 (10 × $3.50/1,000, plus $0.0001 for the run start). Then replace it with what you actually want.

Monitor TikTok: get only new videos and comments, in Slack, email or a webhook

With Only new since the last run on, each run returns (and charges for) only the videos and comments that input hasn't returned before. A run with nothing new costs only the start fee ($0.0001).

1. Put what you follow in Hashtags, Profiles or Sounds ("profiles": ["nasa"],

   "hashtags": ["skincare"]
   ), set Max videos per source to how many of each to look at ("maxVideosPerSource": 10: the 10 latest of a profile, the first 10 TikTok lists for a hashtag), turn on Only new since the last run ("onlyNew": true), and click Start. This first run returns everything it looks at and is the baseline.
2. Click Save as a new task (top right of the actor page). What has been returned is remembered per hashtag, sound, profile and video (for comments), in a store in your account, for 120 days.
3. In Apify Console, open Schedules, click Create new, set how often in Schedule setup (for example every hour, or daily at 07:00), then Add your task.
4. On the task, open the Integrations tab and pick where the new videos go:
   • Slack: click Configure, sign in, pick the workspace and channel, and the "run succeeded" event. A useful message: {{resource.statusMessage}} and a link, <https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{{resource.defaultDatasetId}}|new TikTok videos>.
   • Gmail: click Connect with Google, set the subject and body, and attach the dataset. It sends after each successful run.
   • HTTP webhook: event ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED, your URL. Apify POSTs {"eventType": ..., "resource": {...}}; resource.defaultDatasetId is the run's dataset, and GET https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<defaultDatasetId>/items?format=json (with your API token) returns the new rows.

Apify's integrations fire after every successful run, including quiet ones: a quiet run's dataset is empty.

To watch the comments on your own videos, put the video links in Video links with Comments per video set and only new on: the video row comes back each run with fresh counts, and only comments you haven't had yet.

What data does TikTok Scraper return?

One row per video ("type": "video", photo posts included), per comment or reply ("type": "comment") and, if you ask for it, per profile ("type": "profile"), in one table. The main fields:

Field	Example	Notes
url	https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7695060950394703118	The video (or /photo/ post)
text	We just released hundreds of new images…	Caption; for comments, the comment
createdAt	2026-10-10T15:26:57Z	When it was posted, UTC
views, likes, comments, shares, saves	297900, 27200, 1739, 1096, 1752	As precise as TikTok gives them (it rounds large ones)
hashtags, mentions	["easyrecipes", "dinner"]	From the caption, lowercase, no # or @
authorUsername, authorName, authorVerified	nasa, NASA, true
authorFollowers, authorLikes, authorVideos	2100000, 11000000, 56	Rounded on video rows; exact on profile rows
musicTitle, musicAuthor, musicId, musicUrl	original sound - NASA	The sound; musicUrl works in Sounds
durationSeconds, width, height, coverUrl	43, 718, 1276	coverUrl is a signed link that expires
isSlideshow, imageUrls	false, []	Photo posts list their images
videoId, videoUrl, replyTo, replies		Comments: which video, which comment a reply answers, reply count
source, sourceType	nasa, profile	The input line the row came from

Every row also has id (stable across runs, for deduplicating) and scrapedAt. The full list is under Output.

How much does it cost to scrape TikTok?

You pay per row:

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business and up
Video (or profile row), per 1,000	$3.50	$2.90	$2.20	$1.60
Comment or reply, per 1,000	$1.20	$0.95	$0.70	$0.48

plus Apify's start fee each time a run starts: $0.00005 per GB of memory, so $0.0001 at the default 2 GB.

• The pre-filled example: 10 videos × $3.50/1,000 = $0.035, plus the start fee.
• A month, for example: 20 creators checked daily for new videos with only new on, about 2 new videos each a week: ~170 videos ≈ $0.60 on the Free plan, plus $0.003 of start fees. A brand pulling 100 hashtag videos and 50 comments each, weekly: 400 videos + 20,000 comments ≈ $25.40 (Starter: $20.16).
• Free filters: Only videos newer than and Only new since the last run cost nothing; skipped videos and comments are never charged.
• Caps: Max results per run in the input, and Maximum cost per run in the run options. The run stops cleanly at whichever comes first, and stops fetching as soon as the limit is covered.

Never charged: sources that fail (a missing account, a private profile's videos, a hashtag TikTok doesn't have), videos or comments skipped by the filters, and anything past your limits.

How to scrape TikTok hashtags, profiles and comments

1. Open TikTok Scraper and click Try for free (or Start if you're signed in).
2. Fill in any of Hashtags, Profiles, Video links and Sounds, one per line. One run can mix them.
3. Set Max videos per source, and if you want comments, Comments per video (and Replies per comment).
4. Optionally set Only videos newer than (7 days, 2026-10-01) or Only new since the last run.
5. Click Start, then open the Output tab and export as JSON, CSV or Excel. The Comments view shows just the comments.

Example: NASA's latest videos

The pre-filled input:

{"profiles": ["nasa"], "maxVideosPerSource": 10}

It returned 10 videos in 22 seconds on Apify (run on 2026-10-14). The third, with long links shortened:

{
  "type": "video",
  "id": "7695060950394703118",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7695060950394703118",
  "text": "We just released hundreds of new images and hours of new audio from our Artemis Il mission around the Moon this spring. Check out our link in bio for the Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report.",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-10T15:26:57Z",
  "views": 297900,
  "likes": 27200,
  "comments": 1739,
  "shares": 1096,
  "saves": 1752,
  "reposts": 0,
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "authorUsername": "nasa",
  "authorName": "NASA",
  "authorId": "7664638705177150477",
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorFollowers": 2100000,
  "authorFollowing": 23,
  "authorLikes": 11000000,
  "authorVideos": 56,
  "authorBio": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible.✨",
  "authorAvatar": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e5143212…jpeg?…",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa",
  "durationSeconds": 43,
  "width": 718,
  "height": 1276,
  "coverUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-p-0068-tx/o0UC1fSKnwLIBgdIAP0iA0ApWBZiIoG91SuMhT~tplv-tiktokx-origin.image?…",
  "isSlideshow": false,
  "imageUrls": [],
  "musicId": "7695060940479384334",
  "musicTitle": "original sound - NASA",
  "musicAuthor": "NASA",
  "musicOriginal": false,
  "musicUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/music/sound-7695060940479384334",
  "language": "en",
  "locationCreated": "US",
  "isAd": false,
  "source": "nasa",
  "sourceType": "profile",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T22:46:20.069288Z"
}

With Comments per video set, each comment follows as its own row (from another run the same day; the author's id, avatar and profile link and scrapedAt left out here):

{
  "type": "comment",
  "id": "7695062072681972502",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7695060950394703118?comment=7695062072681972502",
  "text": "how do people say this is fake😭",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-10T15:31:24Z",
  "likes": 833,
  "replies": 78,
  "likedByAuthor": false,
  "pinnedByAuthor": false,
  "replyTo": null,
  "language": "en",
  "authorUsername": "uncledannyfr",
  "authorName": "Uncle Danny RC",
  "videoId": "7695060950394703118",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7695060950394703118",
  "source": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa/video/7695060950394703118",
  "sourceType": "video"
}

Input

Field	What it does
Hashtags (hashtags)	cooking, #cooking or https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking, one per line
Profiles (profiles)	nasa, @nasa or https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa: the account's latest videos
Video links (videoUrls)	https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/<id>, /photo/ links, vm.tiktok.com and tiktok.com/t/ short links
Sounds (sounds)	https://www.tiktok.com/music/<name>-<id>, or just the id: videos using that sound
Max videos per source (maxVideosPerSource)	How many of each hashtag's, sound's or profile's videos to look at, in TikTok's order (default 10, up to 1,000; see Limits)
Comments per video (commentsPerVideo)	Up to this many top-level comments per video, as rows (default 0, up to 1,000)
Replies per comment (repliesPerComment)	Up to this many replies to each comment that has any (default 0, up to 100)
Only videos newer than (newerThan)	A date (2026-10-01) or an age (24 hours, 7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months)
Only new since the last run (onlyNew)	Skip videos and comments this input returned before
Also return each profile (profileRows)	One row per profile with exact follower, following, like and video counts, bio and bio link
Max results per run (maxResults)	Cap on all rows together

{
  "hashtags": ["skincare"],
  "profiles": ["nasa", "@nba"],
  "videoUrls": ["https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMexample/"],
  "maxVideosPerSource": 30,
  "commentsPerVideo": 20,
  "newerThan": "7 days",
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Output

Every row has the same columns; the ones that don't apply to its type are null (or missing). Fields TikTok doesn't publish for an item are null. Videos and comments are written in batches, so they don't strictly alternate; match a comment to its video with videoId = id. The run's RUN_STATS record lists every source, what it returned, what the filters skipped (alreadySeen, olderThanCutoff), why a list ended (listEnded) and anything that failed, with TikTok's own reason.

Switching from another TikTok actor?

Most TikTok actors take the same kinds of input under other names. Here's where each goes:

What you had	Put it here
Hashtags	Hashtags (hashtags), with or without #
Profiles or usernames	Profiles (profiles): usernames, @names or links
Post or video URLs (postURLs, startUrls)	Video links (videoUrls); short links work
Music or sound URLs	Sounds (sounds)
Results per page / per source (resultsPerPage, maxItems)	Max videos per source, and Max results per run for the total
Comments per post	Comments per video; replies with Replies per comment
A date filter (oldest post date, days back)	Only videos newer than: a date or N days; free here
Search queries	Not available: TikTok asks visitors to log in to search (why)
Follower or following lists, video downloads, transcripts	Not available here

What's different in the output: one flat row per video or comment instead of nested author, music and video objects. Author fields start with author (authorUsername, authorFollowers), sound fields with music (musicTitle, musicId). Counts are views, likes, comments, shares, saves; the posting time is createdAt (ISO 8601) and the page is url. Comments come in the same table with type: "comment" and point at their video with videoId and videoUrl.

Run it on a schedule, or from your own code

1. Save your input as a task (Save as a new task, top right of the actor page) and add it to a schedule (Console → Schedules → Create new).
2. Collect results: download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel; fetch the latest run's results from the API (GET https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<task id>/runs/last/dataset/items?status=SUCCEEDED&format=csv, with your API token); let a webhook tell your system when a run succeeds; or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n through Apify's integrations.

Can I use TikTok Scraper from an AI agent (MCP)?

Yes, through Apify's MCP server, from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client. Add this to your client's MCP configuration (or let the agent find it with the server's actor search); your client signs you in to Apify:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=humble-echidna/tiktok-scraper"
    }
  }
}

To use an Apify API token instead of signing in, add "headers": {"Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>"} next to url.

An agent should pass a few sources and small counts, e.g. {"hashtags": ["skincare"], "maxVideosPerSource": 20, "commentsPerVideo": 10, "maxResults": 200}.

Who it's for

Brands and agencies tracking a hashtag, a campaign sound or competitors' accounts; influencer marketers checking a creator's recent views and engagement before a deal; social listening and research teams reading what people say in the comments; and anyone whose dashboard, spreadsheet or AI agent needs fresh TikTok numbers on a schedule.

Why this one?

• One run, one table. Hashtags, profiles, video links, sounds, comments and replies together, every row flat and ready for a spreadsheet.
• Built for schedules. Only new skips what you already have (videos and comments), and a quiet run costs the start fee ($0.0001).
• Free filters. The date filter and only new are free, and profile videos older than your cutoff are skipped before they're even fetched.
• Says what happened. Each source's outcome is in the log and RUN_STATS: how many it returned, what was skipped and why, and TikTok's own reason when something isn't available. No silent empty runs.
• Reliable. One failing source, video or comment thread never affects the others. On 2026-10-14 on Apify, 2 hashtags × 100 videos took 58 s and 2 videos × 300 comments took 22 s.

Limits

These are TikTok's limits for visitors who aren't logged in (measured 2026-10-14), and this actor never logs in or uses accounts or cookies:

• Profiles: the ~10 latest videos (a pinned video first), the ones TikTok shows on a profile's embed card. Its full video grid isn't served to automated visitors.
• Hashtags: about 120-160 videos each; TikTok then says there are no more (listEnded in RUN_STATS). The order is TikTok's and changes between visits.
• Comments: a few hundred per video. TikTok ends the comment list for visitors at about 500 positions, with repeats: 372 distinct comments on a video with 2,265 (replies included). Replies come on top with Replies per comment.
• Sounds: creators' original sounds work. Licensed songs' sound pages aren't shown to visitors (TikTok status 10219); those lines fail free with that reason.
• No keyword search. TikTok shows visitors a dozen results and then asks them to log in.
• No follower or following lists, video downloads, transcripts, stories or live streams.
• Counts are what visitors see when the run reads them. TikTok rounds large counts (and author counts on video rows); profile rows (Also return each profile) carry exact follower counts.
• Image and video links (coverUrl, authorAvatar, imageUrls) are TikTok's signed links and expire after a few days; download them soon if you need them.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape TikTok?

This actor reads only what TikTok shows anyone who isn't logged in: public videos, profiles, hashtag and sound pages and comments, through the same pages and requests tiktok.com uses in a browser. It never logs in and can't see private accounts. TikTok's robots.txt disallows the embed and API paths it uses for automated clients, and TikTok's Terms of Service (section 3.4, which say they apply even to visitors without an account) forbid extracting data by automated means without TikTok's written approval. Courts have treated scraping of public data differently from breaking into private data, but the law differs by country and use. Results include public usernames and comments, which are personal data in many places (GDPR and similar laws): have a lawful reason, keep only what you need, and don't use them for spam or profiling people. How you use the data is up to you and the laws that apply to you. An account owner who wants their account left out can open an issue.

Why did a source return nothing, or fewer results than expected?

Look at that source in the log or RUN_STATS: the account may be private or not exist (TikTok's own status is quoted), the hashtag may not exist, the sound may be a licensed song, the list may have ended (listEnded), or a filter (Only videos newer than, Only new) skipped the rest (olderThanCutoff, alreadySeen). Every other source in the run is unaffected. If TikTok's page didn't load a hashtag's videos at all, the source fails free; run it again later, and please open an issue with the input if it keeps happening.

Can I get only new results since my last run?

Yes: turn on Only new since the last run (how). It works per hashtag, sound, profile and video; video links always return their video, with only new comments.

How is this different from TikTok's official APIs?

TikTok's Research API is for approved non-profit academic researchers, and its Display and Business APIs cover accounts that log in to your app. This actor needs no application or login and works for any public account, hashtag or sound, but only with what logged-out visitors can see.

Related actors

Actor	Use it when
Instagram Scraper	You track the same creators or brands on Instagram
Bulk Image Downloader	You want covers or slideshow images saved before TikTok's links expire (dataset input, URL field coverUrl)
Dataset Transformer	You want the rows filtered, renamed or split into videos and comments in your own CSV or Excel layout
Dataset Diff	You want to see how views, likes or followers changed between two runs

Feedback and support

Found a bug, or need a field or source that isn't here? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input you used.

Versions

Current version: 0.1. See the Changelog tab for what changed in each version.