TikTok LIVE Scraper: Search, Comments & Live Status

📡 What is TikTok LIVE Scraper?

TikTok LIVE Scraper finds the TikTok LIVE streams broadcasting right now for any keyword, in one or several countries, and returns them as clean, structured data: streamer, viewers now, total viewers, likes, comments, shares, category, game and stream URLs.

Already know which LIVE you want? Paste LIVE links, room IDs or @usernames to check if a creator is live, how many people are watching, what viewers are saying in the chat and who sends the most gifts. Download everything as JSON, CSV or Excel. No TikTok account, cookies or proxies needed.

🌍 110+ countries · 💬 LIVE comments & top gifters · ⚡ ~50 LIVE streams per keyword in about 20 seconds · 💸 Only $3 per 1,000 LIVE streams

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✨ What can TikTok LIVE Scraper do?

• 🔍 Search TikTok LIVE by keyword: many keywords in one run, each as its own search
• 🌍 Choose one or several countries: get the LIVE streams TikTok shows in the United States, France, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and 100+ other countries, or compare several markets in one run
• 🎯 Keep only the LIVE streams that matter: set a minimum number of viewers, and LIVE streams under it are skipped for free
• 📺 Look up any LIVE room by LIVE link, profile link, share link, room ID or @username
• 🟢 Check if a creator is live: a username returns their current LIVE, or their last one with its end time
• 💬 Read the LIVE chat: the latest comments (up to 50), the pinned comment, the LIVE intro and the top gifters with their gift score
• 🎥 Get stream URLs: FLV and HLS playback links by quality, plus an audio-only stream, to record or analyze a LIVE
• 🧹 No duplicates across keywords and countries: a LIVE found several times is saved and billed once
• 🔌 Apify platform included: API access, scheduling, webhooks, Zapier, Make and Google Sheets integrations

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📊 What TikTok LIVE data can you extract?

Field	Description
room_url / room_id	Link and ID of the LIVE room
title / category / game_tags	LIVE title, TikTok category (for example Gaming) and game played
status / started_at / ended_at	live or ended, with start and end times (UTC)
viewers / total_viewers	Watching now, and since the LIVE started
likes / comments_count / shares	LIVE engagement counters (keyword search)
new_followers	Followers the streamer gained during this LIVE
streamer_username / streamer_nickname / streamer_followers	Who is streaming, and their audience
streamer_bio / streamer_profile_url	Streamer bio and profile link
chat_enabled / subscribers_only / age_restricted / products	LIVE settings and number of products on sale
stream_urls	FLV, HLS and audio-only playback URLs
comments / pinned_comment / intro	The LIVE chat, with comments on
top_gifters	The LIVE's top gifters with their rank and gift score, with comments on
keyword / country / rank	Which keyword found the LIVE, in which country, at which position

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💡 Example 1: gaming LIVE streams in France, with their chat

Input

{
  "keywords": ["gaming"],
  "countries": ["FR"],
  "max_rooms_per_keyword": 20,
  "include_comments": true
}

Output (one item per LIVE, shortened)

{
  "source": "search",
  "keyword": "gaming",
  "country": "FR",
  "rank": 2,
  "room_id": "7706079497837955862",
  "room_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@example_streamer/live",
  "title": "SNIPER MANETTE FR !",
  "status": "live",
  "started_at": "2026-11-09T08:05:26Z",
  "streamer_username": "example_streamer",
  "streamer_nickname": "Example",
  "streamer_followers": 116582,
  "streamer_bio": "LIVE every morning from 9am!",
  "viewers": 688,
  "total_viewers": 112808,
  "likes": 353513,
  "comments_count": 7193,
  "shares": 68,
  "new_followers": 104,
  "category": "Gaming",
  "game_tags": ["Fortnite"],
  "chat_enabled": true,
  "intro": "LIVE every day at 9am. Join my sniper map!",
  "pinned_comment": { "text": "Follow me on my other channels 💚", "author_username": "example_mod", "author_is_moderator": true },
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": "7706165829546494742",
      "text": "the goat is back",
      "language": "en",
      "created_at": "2026-11-09T13:39:20Z",
      "author_username": "viewer_one",
      "author_is_follower": true,
      "author_is_moderator": false,
      "author_is_subscriber": false
    }
  ],
  "top_gifters": [{ "rank": 1, "score": 114, "username": "top_gifter", "nickname": "Top Gifter" }],
  "stream_urls": { "default_quality": "hd", "flv": { "hd": "https://..." }, "hls": {}, "audio_only": "https://..." },
  "scraped_at": "2026-11-09T13:39:13Z"
}

💡 Example 2: are these streamers live right now?

Input

{
  "rooms": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@example_streamer/live",
    "@another_creator",
    "7705498471838665494"
  ]
}

Output (shortened)

{
  "source": "room",
  "input": "@another_creator",
  "room_id": "7704837379474852622",
  "room_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@another_creator/live",
  "share_url": "https://m.tiktok.com/share/live/7704837379474852622",
  "title": "Album release party",
  "status": "ended",
  "started_at": "2026-11-05T23:45:07Z",
  "ended_at": "2026-11-06T01:15:07Z",
  "streamer_username": "another_creator",
  "streamer_followers": 2450000,
  "viewers": 0,
  "total_viewers": 18362,
  "new_followers": 412,
  "chat_enabled": true,
  "products": 0
}

Every item has the same fields, so CSV and Excel exports line up. Fields a source cannot provide are null: a LIVE looked up by link has no likes or share count (TikTok only gives those to LIVE search), and comments stays null when comments are off.

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

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🚀 Why use TikTok LIVE Scraper?

• ⚡ Fast: a keyword search returns its LIVE streams in about 20 seconds, so the results are still live when you open them
• 🌍 Real country targeting: each search runs from the country you pick, so you get the LIVE streams people in that country see, not a global default. Pick several countries to compare markets in one run
• 🧩 Search, status check and chat in one Actor: find LIVE streams, check specific creators and read their comments in the same run, with the same output format
• 💬 Chat without the wait: the latest 50 comments and the top gifters of a LIVE arrive in seconds, billed per LIVE, not per minute spent listening or per message
• 🟢 An answer for every creator: a creator who is not live returns their last LIVE with its start and end times, not just "offline"
• 🎯 Pay for what you keep: LIVE streams under your minimum viewers and duplicates are never billed, and you can cap the total number of LIVE streams per run
• 🛡️ Budget-safe: set a maximum cost per run and the scraper never starts a search or a lookup your budget cannot pay for
• 🧾 Clear output: one row per LIVE, the same columns every time, ready for spreadsheets, BI tools and databases

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👥 Who uses TikTok LIVE Scraper?

Brands and marketers

Find the LIVE streams talking about your product category right now, in each market you sell in. Read the chat to hear what viewers ask and complain about.

Influencer and creator agencies

Discover streamers by niche and country, compare their live audience, and track how many followers each LIVE brings them.

LIVE shopping and e-commerce teams

Spot LIVE streams selling products (products), see who is watching, and benchmark sellers in your vertical.

Researchers and journalists

Monitor LIVE streams about an event, a protest or an election as it happens, in the countries where it happens. Keep the chat for analysis.

Data teams and AI builders

Feed live audience, engagement and chat data into dashboards, sentiment analysis, moderation tools or LLM pipelines through the API.

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📈 Use cases for TikTok LIVE data

• Live market monitoring: schedule a search for your keywords every 15 minutes in each country you care about
• Streamer discovery: search a niche with a minimum number of viewers, sort by viewers or streamer_followers, export the streamers' profiles
• Country comparison: search the same topic in several countries at once and compare how many LIVE streams and viewers each market has
• "Is this creator live?" alerts: look up a list of @usernames on a schedule and trigger a webhook when status is live
• LIVE chat analysis: collect comments with their language, run sentiment or topic analysis, spot moderators and subscribers
• Top gifter research: see who supports a streamer the most with top_gifters, to find superfans and partners
• Gaming insights: see which games (game_tags) are streamed most in each country
• Recording and archiving: use stream_urls to record a LIVE, or its audio-only stream for transcription

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🛠️ How to scrape TikTok LIVE streams

1. Open TikTok LIVE Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Add one or more keywords (for example gaming, makeup, football), and pick one or more countries. Optionally set Min viewers now to keep only the bigger LIVE streams.
3. Or paste LIVE rooms: LIVE links, room IDs or @usernames, one per line. You can use both in the same run.
4. Turn on Get LIVE comments and top gifters if you want the chat.
5. Click Start. A keyword search usually takes 10 to 25 seconds.
6. Download your TikTok LIVE data as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect it to your tools.

How to scrape TikTok LIVE comments

1. Add keywords, LIVE links or @usernames, as above.
2. Turn on 💬 Get LIVE comments and top gifters and set Max comments per LIVE (up to 50).
3. Run it. Each LIVE comes with its latest comments, pinned comment, intro and top gifters.
4. Need one row per comment? Export with unwind=comments (see the FAQ).

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 few minutes, hours or days to follow LIVE activity over time
• 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
• Cloud infrastructure: nothing to install, runs on Apify's servers

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💳 How much does it cost to scrape TikTok LIVE?

TikTok LIVE Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay a small fee per search and a price per LIVE stream you get. No subscription, no start fee, and no charge for proxies or compute.

What you get	Price
🔍 Keyword search, per keyword and country (even when it finds no LIVE)	$0.005
📺 LIVE found by keyword search	$0.003 ($3 per 1,000)
🟢 LIVE looked up by link, room ID or username (live status check)	$0.005
💬 LIVE with its comments and top gifters	$0.010

Run	Price
1 keyword, 20 LIVE streams	$0.065
1 keyword, 50 LIVE streams	$0.155
10 keywords, 500 LIVE streams	$1.55
1 keyword in 5 countries, 250 LIVE streams	$0.775
1 keyword, 20 LIVE streams with comments	$0.205
20 creators checked by username	$0.10
20 creators checked, with comments	up to $0.20

You are never billed for LIVE streams under your Min viewers now, for duplicates, or for inputs that fail. A LIVE that has ended has no comments, so it is billed as a simple lookup even when comments are on.

Try it on the Apify free plan: runs are limited to 10 LIVE streams (a limit of the free Apify plan, not of the Actor), enough to check the data before you scale. Any paid Apify plan removes the limit.

Cost control tips

• Set Max LIVE streams per keyword and country to the number you actually need
• Set Min viewers now to skip small LIVE streams for free
• Set Max LIVE streams in total to cap a run with many keywords or countries
• Turn on comments only when you need the chat
• Set a Maximum cost per run in the run options: the scraper never starts a search or a lookup your budget cannot pay for, and stops when the budget is reached
• Keep Remove duplicate LIVE streams on (default) so overlapping keywords and countries are never billed twice

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⚙️ Input options explained

Option	What it does
🔍 Search LIVE streams by keyword	Keywords to search. Each keyword is searched in each country.
🌍 Countries	One or more countries whose LIVE streams you get. Applies to keyword search only. Default United States.
Max LIVE streams per keyword and country	Upper limit of LIVE streams per search. Default 50.
Min viewers now	Keep only LIVE streams with at least this many viewers. The others are not billed. Default 0 (keep all).
📺 LIVE rooms	LIVE links, profile links, share links, room IDs or @usernames to look up.
💬 Get LIVE comments and top gifters	Adds the latest comments, pinned comment, intro and top gifters of every LIVE.
Max comments per LIVE	1 to 50. Default 50.
Include stream URLs	FLV, HLS and audio-only playback URLs. On by default.
Remove duplicate LIVE streams	Save each LIVE once, even if several keywords or countries find it. On by default.
Max LIVE streams in total	Upper limit for the whole run. Empty means no limit.

📋 Ready-to-use inputs

Monitor a niche in one market (schedule it every 15 minutes):

{ "keywords": ["skincare", "makeup", "beauty"], "countries": ["US"], "max_rooms_per_keyword": 50 }

Compare a topic across countries, big LIVE streams only:

{ "keywords": ["football"], "countries": ["GB", "FR", "ES", "DE", "IT"], "min_viewers": 100 }

Get alerted when your creators go live (schedule it, then filter on status = live in a webhook):

{ "rooms": ["@creator_one", "@creator_two", "@creator_three"], "include_stream_urls": false }

Collect the chat of the biggest LIVE streams about a topic:

{ "keywords": ["football"], "countries": ["GB"], "max_rooms_per_keyword": 10, "include_comments": true }

Read the chat of one LIVE you are watching:

{ "rooms": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@username/live"], "include_comments": true, "comments_limit": 50 }

Which LIVE room formats are accepted?

You paste	Example
LIVE link	https://www.tiktok.com/@username/live
Profile or video link	https://www.tiktok.com/@username
Share link	https://m.tiktok.com/share/live/7705498471838665494
Room ID	7705498471838665494
Username	@username or username

Short vm.tiktok.com links are not supported: open them in a browser and paste the full link instead.

Which countries are supported?

More than 110 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and Australia. The full list is in the Countries dropdown. Through the API, pass two-letter codes in capitals, for example "countries": ["FR", "BE"].

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❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape TikTok LIVE?

TikTok LIVE Scraper only collects publicly available data: LIVE streams anyone can watch and comments anyone in the LIVE can read. 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 and comments. 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.

Is there an official TikTok LIVE API?

TikTok does not offer a public API to search LIVE streams or read LIVE comments: its developer APIs are limited to approved partners and researchers. TikTok LIVE Scraper works as a TikTok LIVE API alternative that anyone can use, with results in structured JSON through the Apify API.

Do I need a TikTok account, cookies or proxies?

No. The scraper handles access for you, including searching from the country you choose.

Why do I get fewer LIVE streams than I asked for?

TikTok serves about 50 LIVE streams per keyword at a given moment, and fewer in smaller countries or for niche keywords. LIVE streams start and stop all the time, so the same search a few minutes later can return different results. To get more, add related keywords or try a broader one.

Can I search several countries at once?

Yes. Pick several countries in Countries and every keyword is searched in each of them, in the same run. Every item has a country field, and a LIVE found in two countries is saved once (keep Remove duplicate LIVE streams on).

Why does the country only apply to keyword search?

TikTok shows different LIVE streams in each country, so a search depends on where it runs from. A LIVE room you name by link, ID or username is the same everywhere, so it is found wherever it broadcasts.

How fresh is the data?

Everything is collected at the moment of the run: viewers is the number of people watching when the LIVE was scraped (scraped_at). Schedule regular runs to follow how a LIVE or a topic evolves.

How many comments can I get from a LIVE?

Up to 50, the most recent ones. TikTok only keeps the latest ~50 comments of a LIVE available, so earlier comments cannot be retrieved. To follow a LIVE chat over time, schedule runs every few minutes and remove duplicate comments by id.

How do I get one row per comment?

Export the dataset with the unwind=comments option of the Apify dataset API: every comment becomes its own row, with the LIVE's fields next to it.

Can I check if a TikTok streamer is live right now?

Yes. Add their @username to LIVE rooms: status is live with the current viewers when they are live, or ended with ended_at for their last LIVE. Schedule the run and use a webhook to get alerted.

Who are the top gifters of a LIVE?

With comments on, top_gifters lists the viewers TikTok ranks at the top of the LIVE for the gifts they sent, with their rank and gift score. It is a quick way to find a streamer's biggest supporters.

Can I record a TikTok LIVE?

stream_urls contains the FLV and HLS playback URLs of each quality, plus an audio-only stream. You can open them with a media player or a recorder such as ffmpeg while the LIVE is on. They stop working when the LIVE ends.

What happens if a keyword or a room fails?

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

Can I scrape TikTok LIVE 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 Search Scraper: search TikTok videos by keyword, with views, likes and date filters.
• TikTok Profile Scraper: scrape every video from specific TikTok creators.
• Video Transcript Scraper: get transcripts and metadata from TikTok, YouTube, X and more.
• Video Transcriber: speech-to-text for videos without subtitles.

Workflow ideas

• LIVE → Creator deep dive: take the streamer_username values of the biggest LIVE streams and scrape their videos with TikTok Profile Scraper.
• LIVE → Topic research: search the same keywords with TikTok Search Scraper to compare LIVE activity with regular videos.

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💬 Support

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