TikTok Search Scraper

🔍 What is TikTok Search Scraper?

TikTok Search Scraper is a TikTok keyword search tool that finds every video matching your keywords and returns it as clean, structured data: views, likes, comments, shares, saves, engagement rate, hashtags, caption, author and sound.

Type a keyword the way you would in the TikTok search bar, choose how many videos you want, and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel. No TikTok account, cookies, or proxies needed.

💰 $0.25 per 1,000 videos · 📅 Date, views and likes filters · ⚡ Up to ~480 unique videos per keyword

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✨ What can TikTok Search Scraper do?

• 🔍 Search TikTok by keyword: run many keywords in one run, each as its own search
• 📊 Get full engagement stats: views, likes, comments, shares, saves, plus a ready-made engagement rate
• 📅 Filter by date: past 24 hours, past 7 days, past 30 days, past 3 or 6 months, or exact date ranges
• 🔥 Filter by performance: minimum or maximum views and likes, to find viral videos or rising creators
• ↕️ Sort like the TikTok app: relevance, most liked, or newest first
• 🧹 No duplicates across keywords: a video found by several keywords is saved and billed once
• 💸 Pay only for results: you are charged per video returned, never for empty searches
• 🔌 Apify platform included: API access, scheduling, webhooks, Zapier, Make and Google Sheets integrations

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📊 What TikTok data can you extract?

Field	Description
video_url	Direct link to the TikTok video
description	Full video caption
hashtags	Hashtags used in the caption
views / likes / comments / shares / saves	Engagement counters at scrape time
engagement_rate	(likes + comments + shares) / views, as a percentage
published_at	Publication date and time (UTC, ISO 8601)
duration_seconds	Video length
author_username / author_nickname	Creator handle and display name
author_profile_url	Link to the creator's TikTok profile
music_title / music_author	Sound used in the video
keyword / rank	Which keyword found the video and at which position

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💡 Example: search TikTok for "skincare routine"

Input

{
  "keywords": ["skincare routine"],
  "max_results_per_keyword": 50,
  "published_within": "this_month",
  "min_views": 10000
}

Output (one item per video)

{
  "keyword": "skincare routine",
  "rank": 1,
  "video_id": "7686299325684550942",
  "video_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@prettytitiii01/video/7686299325684550942",
  "description": "Here's our skin care routine . Hope yall enjoy 😊 @GARNIER @PanOxyl @La Roche-Posay",
  "hashtags": [],
  "published_at": "2026-09-17T00:47:12Z",
  "duration_seconds": 169,
  "views": 3500000,
  "likes": 528000,
  "comments": 3095,
  "shares": 16800,
  "saves": 20100,
  "engagement_rate": 15.65,
  "author_username": "prettytitiii01",
  "author_nickname": "Tierra Davis",
  "author_id": "6806845277745546246",
  "author_sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAA7yXHJ_HLzLSfHgIgl2A-2ruALCjXpaVrSQwTr8J699fzt2Kho-4hVyePbExxyjIM",
  "author_profile_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@prettytitiii01",
  "music_id": "7667609163505321994",
  "music_title": "Veludo Noite",
  "music_author": "The Pizza Boys",
  "music_duration_seconds": 217,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-27T14:24:36Z"
}

You can download the dataset extracted by TikTok Search Scraper in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the Apify API.

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👥 Who uses TikTok Search Scraper?

Marketers and brands

Track what people post about your brand, product category or competitors. Find the videos and creators driving the conversation.

Influencer and creator agencies

Find creators by niche keyword, sort by likes or views, and export their handles and profile links to build outreach lists.

Trend and market researchers

Measure how a topic grows over time with date filters and scheduled runs. Compare engagement across keywords.

Content creators

See which hooks, captions, hashtags and sounds perform best in your niche before you film.

Data teams and AI builders

Feed fresh TikTok data into dashboards, databases, social listening tools, or LLM pipelines through the API.

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📈 Use cases for TikTok keyword data

• Social listening: monitor mentions of a brand, product or event on TikTok every day
• Viral content discovery: min_views: 1000000 + published_within: this_week returns this week's viral videos for a topic
• Creator discovery: search a niche keyword, then filter by engagement rate to find high-performing micro creators
• Hashtag and sound research: see which hashtags and sounds appear most in top videos for a keyword
• Competitor analysis: compare how competing brands or products perform on TikTok
• Academic and trend research: build datasets of TikTok content on a topic over a precise date range

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🛠️ How to scrape TikTok search results

1. Open TikTok Search Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Add one or more keywords (for example ai tools, protein recipes).
3. Set Max videos per keyword. You only pay for the videos you receive.
4. Optional: add date, views or likes filters, or change the sort order.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish, usually under a minute per keyword.
6. Download your TikTok data as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect it to your tools.

Run it your way

Because this is an Apify Actor, you also get:

• API access: start runs and fetch results from Python, JavaScript, cURL or any language. See the API tab for ready-made code
• Scheduling: run the same searches every hour, day or week to track trends
• Integrations: send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, Airbyte or your own webhook
• Monitoring: run history, logs and cost tracking in the Apify Console

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💳 How much does it cost to scrape TikTok search results?

TikTok Search Scraper uses pay-per-result pricing. You pay for the videos you receive, nothing else.

$0.25 per 1,000 videos  ($0.00025 per video)

Videos	Price
1,000	$0.25
10,000	$2.50
100,000	$25.00

The Apify free plan includes $5 of monthly credits, enough to scrape about 20,000 TikTok videos for free every month. No start fees, no subscription, and no charge for proxies or compute: the price per video is all you pay.

Cost control tips

• Set Max videos per keyword to the number you actually need
• Set a Maximum cost per run in the run options: the scraper stops as soon as it is reached
• Keep Remove duplicate videos across keywords on (default) so overlapping keywords are never billed twice

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⚙️ Input options explained

Option	What it does
Search keywords	Keywords or phrases to search. Each runs as its own search.
Max videos per keyword	Upper limit of videos per keyword. Default 100.
Sort by	Auto (recommended), Relevance, Most liked or Newest first. Applied by TikTok itself.
Published within	Rolling window: past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 3 months or 6 months.
Published on or after / before	Exact date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
Minimum / maximum views	Keep only videos inside a view range.
Minimum / maximum likes	Keep only videos inside a like range.
Search depth (1-4)	Number of parallel search passes. More passes find more unique videos. Leave empty to set it automatically.
Remove duplicate videos across keywords	Save each video once, even if several keywords find it. On by default.

How many videos can I get per keyword?

TikTok itself limits how deep a single search goes. One search pass returns roughly 120 unique videos. With Search depth set to 4, the scraper runs four passes in parallel and merges them, reaching up to ~480 unique videos per keyword. When you leave Search depth empty, it is picked automatically from your Max videos per keyword.

Need more? Add related keywords (for example ai tools, best ai tools, ai tools for students). Duplicates are removed automatically.

Which sort order should I choose?

Auto is the best default. When you set a date filter, it searches newest first and stops at your start date. When you set a minimum like or view count, it searches most liked first. Either way you get more matching videos, faster.

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❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape TikTok?

TikTok Search Scraper only collects publicly available video data that creators chose to publish. It does not access private accounts, messages, or personal data such as emails or phone numbers. However, results may contain personal data such as usernames. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you are unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read the Apify blog post on the legality of web scraping.

Do I need a TikTok account, cookies or proxies?

No. The scraper handles access for you. Just enter keywords and run it.

Is there an official TikTok search API?

TikTok's official Research API is restricted to approved academic researchers and has strict quotas. TikTok Search Scraper works as a TikTok search API alternative that anyone can use, with results in structured JSON through the Apify API.

Why did I get fewer videos than I asked for?

TikTok only serves a limited number of results per keyword, and filters remove videos that don't match. To get more, increase Search depth, loosen your filters, or add related keywords.

Why are the numbers slightly different from what I see in the app?

Views, likes and other counters change constantly. The dataset shows the values at the moment of scraping (scraped_at). Schedule regular runs to track how they evolve.

What happens if a keyword fails?

The run continues with the other keywords. Failed keywords are listed in the log and in the FAILED_KEYWORDS record of the run's key-value store, and you are not charged for them.

Can I scrape TikTok with Python?

Yes. Use the Apify Python client to start the Actor and read results in a few lines of code. Ready-made snippets are in the API tab.

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🔗 Related Actors

• TikTok Profile Scraper: scrape every video from specific TikTok creators, with date and like filters.
• Video Transcript Scraper: get transcripts and metadata from TikTok, YouTube, X and more.
• Video Transcriber: speech-to-text for videos without subtitles.
• Tweet Claim Analyzer: understand what any tweet is really claiming, including its video and images.

Workflow ideas

• Search → Transcript: find videos with this scraper, then pass the video_url list to Video Transcript Scraper to read what every creator says.
• Search → Speech-to-text: for videos without captions, send them to Video Transcriber.
• Search → Creator deep dive: take the best author_username values and scrape their full history with TikTok Profile Scraper.

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💬 Support

Found a bug or need a new field or filter? Open an issue and we'll get back to you quickly.

Need a custom TikTok data pipeline or a higher volume plan? Reach out through the Issues tab, we're happy to help.