TikTok Profile Scraper — followers, likes, bio

TikTok Profile Scraper — followers, likes, bio

Give it handles, profile URLs or user IDs. Get one row per account: followers, following, total likes, video count, bio, verified flag, avatar, and the IDs you need for any other lookup.

No login, no cookies, no browser.

Why the totals and the bio usually come from different places

TikTok has no single endpoint that returns a complete profile, and most scrapers quietly ship whichever half they happened to read. Measured on @nasa, @bbcnews and @khaby.lame — the same pattern every time:

	the search payload	the profile screen
followers, following, video count	identical	identical
total likes	present	missing
bio	missing	present
verified	reports 0 even for verified accounts	correct

This Actor reads both and merges them, so a row is not missing the bio or the total likes, and verified is the real answer rather than a field that happens to be zero.

Accounts that hide their total likes come back as null with a note saying so — not as 0, which would look like a fact.

How to use

1. Click Try for free at the top of this page. Apify creates a free account if you do not have one — no card is needed to run this.
2. Put what you want scraped into Profiles — one per line.
3. Press Start.
4. Rows show up in the Dataset tab while the run is still going. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from there, or read them over the API.

Input

field
profiles	required	@nasa, nasa, https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa, a sec_uid, or a numeric user ID
includeRecentVideos	default off	Add the account's recent posts to the row
maxRecentVideos	10	Only used when recent videos are on

Every field, with its default — paste the whole block and delete what you do not need:

{
  "profiles": [
    "@nasa",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews"
  ],
  "includeRecentVideos": false,
  "maxRecentVideos": 10
}

Output

One row per account.

field
username, nickname, profileUrl
userId, secUid	secUid is what other TikTok endpoints want; keep it if you plan more lookups
followerCount, followingCount, videoCount, visibleVideoCount
totalLikes	null when the account hides it
bio, verified, verificationType, isPrivate, avatarUrl, region
recentVideos[]	when enabled: videoId, url, description, createdAt, durationMs, isPinned, playCount, likeCount, commentCount, shareCount, coverUrl
input, note	what you passed in, and anything worth knowing about the row

One row, exactly as it lands in your dataset (long signed CDN links shortened here for readability):

{
  "input": "@nasa",
  "username": "nasa",
  "nickname": "NASA",
  "userId": "7664638705177150477",
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAU9BRVzC8oCaegVnia8IbqWhPb_-dbU7s00Y3wS1_Nx8g5RUaYvyXrpejgjdxTwd6",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa",
  "bio": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible.✨",
  "followerCount": 887334,
  "followingCount": 22,
  "videoCount": 25,
  "visibleVideoCount": 25,
  "totalLikes": 3968770,
  "verified": true,
  "verificationType": 0,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "avatarUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/e5143…?…",
  "region": null,
  "note": null
}

Recent videos

Enabled by includeRecentVideos. This is the most reliable pagination available on TikTok's public surface — walked to the end it returns every post with zero duplicates and stops cleanly — so asking for hundreds is safe.

Pinned posts are flagged isPinned and occupy slots on the first page, so ask for a few more than you strictly need if you want that many ordinary posts.

Notes

• url is TikTok's own canonical link. A photo post therefore points at /photo/ and a video at /video/, and a row whose author handle is missing gets null rather than a link that would 404.
• A handle that does not exist gives a row with note: "account not found" rather than failing the run.
• Private accounts return their profile (followers, bio, counts) — their videos are not accessible.
• region is not published on the profile screen; the field is present for shape and stays null.
• Only public data. There is no login, so nothing hidden from a logged-out visitor is reachable.

Run it from your own code

Every Actor is an API endpoint. This starts a run, waits for it, and returns the rows in one call — swap in your token from Settings → Integrations:

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/mu0i~tiktok-profile-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "profiles": [
      "@nasa",
      "https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcnews"
    ],
    "includeRecentVideos": false,
    "maxRecentVideos": 10
  }'

Pricing

Pay per result — you are billed for rows you receive, not for time or compute.

Event	Per 1,000	What one unit is
profile	$2.00	one profile in the dataset
video	$2.00	one recent video in the dataset

Paid Apify plans pay less than this. The table above is the free-plan rate. Starter, Scale and Business each get a lower per-unit price — up to 55% off on Business — and the Actor's Pricing tab shows every tier before you run anything.

Starting a run costs $0.00001 — a cent per thousand runs — and there is no run minimum. You are never billed for a run that found nothing. If an input has nothing to collect the run says so in a row of the dataset — never a silently empty result, and never a charge. A run that fails because the data could not be reached fails loudly, because that one is worth retrying.

Related Actors

Fourteen Actors covering the whole public TikTok surface. Same billing rules and the same guarantees throughout: billed once for each row you receive, never billed for a run that found nothing, and told in the dataset why it found nothing.

Actor	What it does
TikTok Search Scraper — videos, users, hashtags	Keyword search across every tab, deduplicated.
TikTok Hashtag Scraper — videos by hashtag	Every video under a hashtag, walked deep.
TikTok Trending Scraper — the real Explore feed	The app's real Explore feed, not Creative Center.
TikTok User Posts Scraper — every video + stats	Every video an account posted, with stats.
TikTok Comments Scraper — replies, no duplicates	Every comment and reply, no duplicate pages.
TikTok Video Downloader — no watermark MP4/MP3	No-watermark MP4, MP3, covers and subtitles.
TikTok Transcript Scraper — no AI, no waiting	Subtitles from TikTok's own caption track.
TikTok Sound Scraper — videos using a sound	Videos that actually use a sound, filtered.
TikTok Live Scraper — rooms, viewers, streams	Live rooms with playable stream links.
TikTok Places Scraper — locations and reviews	Locations with addresses, coordinates and reviews.
TikTok Shop Scraper — Products, Sellers & Reviews	Shop search, product detail, seller catalogue.
TikTok Shop Category Scraper — every product	Every product in a Shop category and its subcategories.
TikTok Shop Reviews Scraper — full archive	The full review archive for a Shop product.