# TikTok Shop & E-Commerce Sales Velocity Tracker (`laced_kirtan/tiktok-shop-sales-velocity`) Actor

Reads public TikTok Shop or Shein product pages and ranks products when public sales telemetry is present in the page data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/laced\_kirtan/tiktok-shop-sales-velocity.md
- **Developed by:** [Shwetanshu Mehta](https://apify.com/laced_kirtan) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 product sales-velocity records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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".

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

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# README

## TikTok Shop & E-Commerce Sales Velocity Tracker

This Actor reads public TikTok Shop or Shein category/product pages and ranks products only when the page exposes sales telemetry. It persists a bounded per-category history so cumulative unit counters can produce a real snapshot delta on later runs. It does not infer sales from popularity badges, solve CAPTCHAs, or call private seller APIs.

### Input

```json
{
  "category": "Beauty & Personal Care",
  "minDailySales": 50,
  "sortBy": "SALES_VELOCITY",
  "maxProducts": 500,
  "maxRetries": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

Optional `platform: "shein"` and `startUrls` allow a public Shein category or a region-specific source URL. TikTok categories use the current public `/us/k/<keyword>` storefront route. Public-site markup and anti-bot behavior can change; proxy retries rotate bounded sessions and user agents, challenge pages are detected but never solved or bypassed, and empty product pages are recorded as bounded source warnings in `RUN_SUMMARY`. If every request remains blocked, the run fails clearly instead of succeeding with an unexplained empty dataset.

### Output

Each item contains `productId`, `title`, `productUrl`, `price`, `currency`, `commissionRate`, `totalUnitsSold`, `totalUnitsSoldSource`, `salesLast24h`, `velocitySource`, snapshot timing, `estDailyRevenue`, `affiliateCreatorCount`, top affiliate handles, and a quality score. Exact embedded product counters are preferred over rounded visible labels, and the selected evidence is identified as `embedded_public_page` or `visible_page_text`. Unknown values are `null`, not zero. Revenue is calculated only when price currency is known; the USD alias is populated only for USD.

When a source reports a true 24-hour field, `velocitySource` is `source_reported_24h`. Otherwise, the first run stores a snapshot and immediately returns the strongest cumulative-sales baselines as uncharged records with `salesLast24h: null`; a later run 1–168 hours afterward can report `snapshot_delta`. Counter resets and stale histories remain null and are labeled explicitly.

### Resource controls

- Pages are fetched sequentially with streamed byte limits and timeouts.
- A bounded, update-aware min-heap retains only the requested top-K products.
- Snapshot history uses one bounded key-value record per platform/category scope, capped at 5,000 products.
- Products are emitted after ranking; raw page objects are not retained.
- Page discovery and affiliate-handle lists are capped.

### Monetization

The manifest declares `product-record` at $0.003 per usable velocity record ($3.00 per 1,000). Products without source-reported or valid snapshot-derived velocity are not charged. A $39/month rental offer can be configured separately in the Apify Store listing.

The published schema includes a one-page, ten-product TikTok Shop prefill for the Store health test. First observations with cumulative sales but no defensible 24-hour delta are returned as uncharged baselines; rerun later to derive snapshot velocity.

### Local development

```bash
npm install
npm test
npm run check
apify validate-schema .actor/input_schema.json
apify run --purge
```

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Category such as Beauty & Personal Care.

## `minDailySales` (type: `integer`):

Only emit products whose public sales-velocity field meets this threshold. Unknown telemetry is not treated as zero.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Ranking field used by the bounded top-K result set.

## `maxProducts` (type: `integer`):

Bounded top-K result set retained in memory and emitted.

## `platform` (type: `string`):

Public source platform to scan.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Use public category or search pages when the generated category URL is not appropriate for the selected region.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on public category/search pages fetched.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Bounded retries using a fresh proxy session and browser user agent after blocked or failed public requests. CAPTCHAs are detected but never solved or bypassed.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Use Apify Proxy or your own proxy URLs for public storefront requests. Residential proxy access may improve availability but can add platform usage cost.

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

Timeout per public category or product page request.

## `maxResponseBytes` (type: `integer`):

Reject oversized pages before JSON/HTML parsing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "Beauty & Personal Care",
  "minDailySales": 50,
  "sortBy": "SALES_VELOCITY",
  "maxProducts": 10,
  "platform": "tiktok-shop",
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxRetries": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,
  "maxResponseBytes": 6000000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `records` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runSummary` (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 = {
    "category": "Beauty & Personal Care",
    "minDailySales": 50,
    "sortBy": "SALES_VELOCITY",
    "maxProducts": 10,
    "platform": "tiktok-shop",
    "maxPages": 1,
    "maxRetries": 1,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    },
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 60
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("laced_kirtan/tiktok-shop-sales-velocity").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 = {
    "category": "Beauty & Personal Care",
    "minDailySales": 50,
    "sortBy": "SALES_VELOCITY",
    "maxProducts": 10,
    "platform": "tiktok-shop",
    "maxPages": 1,
    "maxRetries": 1,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("laced_kirtan/tiktok-shop-sales-velocity").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 '{
  "category": "Beauty & Personal Care",
  "minDailySales": 50,
  "sortBy": "SALES_VELOCITY",
  "maxProducts": 10,
  "platform": "tiktok-shop",
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxRetries": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 60
}' |
apify call laced_kirtan/tiktok-shop-sales-velocity --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,laced_kirtan/tiktok-shop-sales-velocity"
        }
    }
}

```

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/EDfEKMoc8Zxx1aa01/builds/WifM2grE6GW1gNJuR/openapi.json