# TikTok Profile & Video Stats (`mdcurt/tiktok-profile-video-stats`) Actor

Follower, like, view and engagement counts for any TikTok profile or video in one request each — no browser, no login. Pass handles or URLs, get JSON in seconds.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mdcurt/tiktok-profile-video-stats.md
- **Developed by:** [Matthew Curtis](https://apify.com/mdcurt) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 profile or video 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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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## TikTok Profile & Video Stats

Follower, like, view and engagement counts for any TikTok profile or video in one request each — no browser, no login. Pass handles or URLs, get JSON in seconds.

### What it does

Give it TikTok handles, profile URLs, video URLs, 19-digit video ids or `vm.tiktok.com` short links — mixed, as many as you like — and it returns one JSON record per entry: a **profile** record (followers, following, total likes, video count, friends, bio, verified, private, region, account creation date, avatar) or a **video** record (plays, likes, comments, shares, saves, reposts, engagement rate, caption, hashtags, mentions, music, duration, cover image, posting time, plus the author's handle and follower/like/video counts). Every record is exactly one plain HTTP request to the public page, so a lookup answers in about a second and a 240-entry batch finishes in just over a minute at ~190 records/minute (measured 2026-10-30 from a datacenter IP, 0 blocked pages). Built for agents and pipelines: three inputs, strong defaults, the first record streams in ~1.3 s, pay per record.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `queries` | string\[] | `["tiktok"]` | Handles (`khaby.lame`, `@khaby.lame`), profile URLs, video URLs, 19-digit video ids or short links (`vm.tiktok.com/…`, `tiktok.com/t/…`). Duplicates are collapsed before any request is made. |
| `maxItems` | integer | 100 | Total records to return (1–5000). One record = one request, so this caps the cost too. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy (datacenter) | Datacenter proxies work for these pages. Switch to a RESIDENTIAL group only if `SUMMARY.blocked` or `SUMMARY.shellPages` is non-zero. |

Entries that are not a TikTok handle or URL are skipped and listed in `SUMMARY.invalidQueries`. Profiles or videos that TikTok reports as missing, private, banned or region-locked cost nothing: no record is written, and the reason is listed per query in `SUMMARY.unavailableQueries` (`user does not exist`, `private account`, `video not found`, …).

### Output

#### Profile record

```json
{
  "kind": "profile",
  "id": "khaby.lame",
  "userId": "127905465618821121",
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAwAg0rSzO65WQfz4RzQgGv2Xdv108BgPXhRrrmNVIHQZ9PO8-flwwRtEppYTS0OjA",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame",
  "handle": "khaby.lame",
  "title": "Khabane lame",
  "description": "Se vuoi ridere sei nel posto giusto😎 If u wanna laugh u r in the right place😎",
  "verified": true,
  "privateAccount": false,
  "region": null,
  "language": "en",
  "createdAt": "2016-08-10T22:02:34.000Z",
  "followers": 162963015,
  "following": 82,
  "likes": 2691460214,
  "videos": 1359,
  "friends": 77,
  "bioLink": null,
  "images": ["https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/…jpeg"],
  "commerceUser": false,
  "ttSeller": false,
  "source": { "query": "khaby.lame" },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-30T23:04:48.149Z"
}
```

#### Video record

```json
{
  "kind": "video",
  "id": "6768504823336815877",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/6768504823336815877",
  "title": "They rejected my application to Hogwarts but I still found a way to be a wizard. 🧹#illusion #magic #harrypotter",
  "description": "They rejected my application to Hogwarts but I still found a way to be a wizard. 🧹#illusion #magic #harrypotter",
  "postedAt": "2019-12-09T18:15:37.000Z",
  "author": { "handle": "zachking", "userId": "68616495085350913", "nickname": "Zach King", "verified": true, "followers": 86800000, "likes": 1300000000, "videos": 620 },
  "plays": 2400000000,
  "likes": 29600000,
  "comments": 788500,
  "shares": 1100000,
  "saves": 999259,
  "reposts": 0,
  "engagementRate": 0.0135,
  "durationSeconds": 18,
  "hashtags": ["illusion", "magic", "harrypotter", "수리수리마수리", "影視特效"],
  "mentions": [],
  "music": { "id": "6768109565536946950", "title": "Zach Kings Magic Broomstick", "author": "Zach King", "original": true },
  "images": ["https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/…image"],
  "width": 576,
  "height": 1090,
  "isAd": false,
  "isAigc": false,
  "locationCreated": "US",
  "textLanguage": "en",
  "duetEnabled": true,
  "stitchEnabled": true,
  "commentsEnabled": true,
  "source": { "query": "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/6768504823336815877" },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-30T23:05:08.259Z"
}
```

`engagementRate` = (likes + comments + shares + saves) / plays, rounded to 4 decimals. Counts come from TikTok's exact `statsV2` values, so videos past 2.1 billion plays are reported correctly (the rounded `stats` block overflows there). Field names follow the convention shared by all mdcurt Actors: `id`, `url`, `title`, `postedAt` (ISO 8601), `images[]`, `description` (≤300 chars), `kind`, `source`, `scrapedAt`.

The key-value store holds a `SUMMARY` record: profile/video counts, `unavailableQueries` with reasons, `invalidQueries`, blocked and shell pages, p95 latency, time to first record and compute seconds.

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.005 per run start plus $0.0015 per record.** A single profile or video lookup costs $0.0065; 1,000 lookups cost $1.51. That is half the $0.003 per-result median of the TikTok Actors on the Store, because each record is one lightweight HTTP request on 256 MB of memory — there is no browser to pay for. Missing, private or deleted targets are not charged.

### Monitoring creators and videos cheaply

Schedule the Actor with your list of handles and video URLs (a daily run of 100 handles costs about $0.16) and pair it with [mdcurt/dataset-diff-monitor](https://apify.com/mdcurt/dataset-diff-monitor) with `keyFields: ["id"]` and `watchFields: ["followers","likes","plays"]` to get a Slack, Discord, Telegram or webhook message only when a count changes.

### Speed

From the live tests on 2026-10-30 (datacenter proxy): first record in 1.2–1.6 s; a 242-entry batch returned 226 records in 70 s (~193 records/minute, concurrency ramped automatically from 2 to 6, p95 latency 1.4 s, 0 blocked, 0 failed). The crawler backs off on the first 429 and halves concurrency if the error rate rises above 2 %.

### Limitations

- Lookups only: it does not list a profile's videos, search, hashtags, comments or followers — those need TikTok's signed internal API, which this Actor deliberately does not call. For a creator's latest videos use a dedicated TikTok scraper and feed the video URLs here for fresh counts.
- Output is metadata only: no video or audio files, no full comment threads; `images` carries the public cover/avatar URL (signed, expires after a few hours).
- E-mail addresses or phone numbers in bios are redacted and an e-mail used as the bio link is dropped (public creator statistics are returned, contact data is not harvested).
- Private accounts return their stats only if TikTok shows them publicly; otherwise they are reported under `SUMMARY.unavailableQueries` as `private account`.
- Short links are resolved by following TikTok's redirect; a short link that lands on the homepage (expired or invalid) is reported as `short link did not resolve`.

### Changelog

- 1.0.0 (2026-10-30) — first release: profile and video lookups, short-link resolution, exact statsV2 counts, engagement rate, free not-found handling.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

What to look up. Each entry is a handle (khaby.lame or @khaby.lame), a profile URL (https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame), a video URL (https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/6768504823336815877), a 19-digit video id, or a short link (vm.tiktok.com/…). Mixed entries are fine. Returns one record per entry — profile stats (followers, following, likes, video count, bio, verified) or video stats (plays, likes, comments, shares, saves, hashtags, music, author) — in about one second each.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to return (1–5000). Each record is exactly one request, so this also caps the cost. The first record arrives within a few seconds.

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

Apify Proxy settings. Datacenter proxies work for TikTok profile and video pages; switch to a RESIDENTIAL group only if the SUMMARY record reports blocked or shell pages.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "khaby.lame",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/6768504823336815877"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One record per query: a profile (followers, following, likes, videos, bio, verified) or a video (plays, likes, comments, shares, saves, hashtags, music, author stats). kind = profile | video.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

SUMMARY record: counts, duplicates and known ids skipped, blocked pages, inferred rate limit, p95 latency, time to first record and compute seconds.

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "khaby.lame",
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/6768504823336815877"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mdcurt/tiktok-profile-video-stats").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 = {
    "queries": [
        "khaby.lame",
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/6768504823336815877",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mdcurt/tiktok-profile-video-stats").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "khaby.lame",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/6768504823336815877"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call mdcurt/tiktok-profile-video-stats --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mdcurt/tiktok-profile-video-stats"
        }
    }
}
```

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/I1PhsQ794E0bNHIw3/builds/EMBCkabBUe8geFMsq/openapi.json