# TikTok Sound Scraper — videos using a sound (`mu0i/tiktok-sound-scraper`) Actor

Find sounds by name and get the videos that actually use them, filtered and verified. Full stats per video.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-sound-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Mu0i](https://apify.com/mu0i) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.35 / 1,000 sounds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#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.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### TikTok Sound Scraper — videos using a sound

Find sounds by name, and get the videos that **actually use them** — verified, not assumed. Full stats per
video, plus a no-watermark link.

No login, no cookies, no browser.

### The filter is the product

TikTok's endpoint for this is a **recommendation feed seeded by a sound**, not a list of videos using it.
Measured across seven sounds:

```
100%   93%   100%   96%   96%   100%    …and one sound at 5%
```

Usually almost everything it returns does use the sound. Occasionally almost nothing does. A scraper that trusts
the endpoint therefore looks perfect most of the time and silently hands you unrelated videos the rest of it.

So every row is checked against the sound ID:

| field | |
|---|---|
| `usesThisSound` | verified per row |
| `soundMatchRate` | what fraction of what TikTok returned actually used the sound |
| `videoSoundId` / `videoSoundTitle` | the sound really on the video — so when the filter is off you can see what came back instead |

With `onlyThisSound` on (the default) the dataset contains only genuine uses. A low `soundMatchRate` in the log
is TikTok telling you it had nothing better to offer for that sound.

### 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 **Sounds** — one per line.
3. Set **Max videos per sound** to bound the run, then press **Start**. You are billed per row, so this field is also your budget.
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 | | |
|---|---|---|
| `sounds` | | Numeric music IDs, or URLs like `https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7649183489941670687` |
| `searchTerms` | | Find sounds by name instead |
| `maxSoundsPerTerm` | 10 | |
| `fetchVideosForFoundSounds` | off | Each sound costs its own requests, so this multiplies a search run |
| `maxVideosPerSound` | 50 | TikTok returns ~11 per request and ignores a page size |
| `onlyThisSound` | on | Drop videos that do not use the sound |

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

```json
{
  "sounds": [
    "6927016038370428930"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "maxSoundsPerTerm": 10,
  "fetchVideosForFoundSounds": false,
  "maxVideosPerSound": 50,
  "onlyThisSound": true
}
```

### Output

Sound rows: `soundId`, `soundTitle`, `soundAuthor`, `durationSec`, `isOriginal`, `videoCount`, `playUrl`,
`coverUrl`, `soundUrl`, `isCommercialTrack` (catalogue music rather than a creator's own sound).
TikTok does not return the sound's owner account with search results, so there is no owner column.

Video rows: `videoId`, `url`, `description`, `createdAt`, `playCount`, `likeCount`, `commentCount`,
`shareCount`, `saveCount`, `durationMs`, `coverUrl`, `noWatermarkUrl`, `hashtags[]`, author fields, plus the
verification fields above. `rowType` tells them apart.

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

```json
{
  "rowType": "video",
  "soundId": "6927016038370428930",
  "soundTitle": "Funny",
  "videoSoundId": "6927016038370428930",
  "videoSoundTitle": "Funny",
  "usesThisSound": true,
  "soundMatchRate": 1,
  "videoId": "7485182785464864055",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@lupita_gonbu/video/7485182785464864055",
  "description": "🫢🫢😅😅 Pero las más felices con nuestros babys 😍🥰 @B❤️‍🩹✨️💖 @Fernandita Montenegr ",
  "createdAt": "2025-03-24T01:32:12.000Z",
  "playCount": 850034,
  "likeCount": 4720,
  "commentCount": 158,
  "shareCount": 1644,
  "saveCount": 1629,
  "durationMs": 19400,
  "coverUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-maliva-p-0068/ogjsBMqBJeX…?…",
  "noWatermarkUrl": "https://v45.tiktokcdn-us.com/b099201cb1c6fb4a453c266d3a274258/6a7fc19b…?…",
  "hashtags": [],
  "authorUsername": "lupita_gonbu",
  "authorNickname": "Lupita González Buca",
  "authorId": "6662330684558589957",
  "authorSecUid": "MS4wLjABAAAABdtKNnthY0UXcpMB8lGRnv1WavLTDMuwf5iji438Ck10yO9fv2Vmq7BDyI8vNZAK"
}
```

### 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.
- Sound IDs are 19 digits. They are returned as **strings** — a spreadsheet or a JSON parser that treats them as
  numbers will corrupt them, which is a real failure mode and the reason they are never emitted as numbers here.
- No-watermark links are signed TikTok CDN links and expire within hours.
- Only public data. There is no login.

#### 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**:

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/mu0i~tiktok-sound-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "sounds": [
      "6927016038370428930"
    ],
    "searchTerms": [],
    "maxSoundsPerTerm": 10,
    "fetchVideosForFoundSounds": false,
    "maxVideosPerSound": 50,
    "onlyThisSound": true
  }'
```

### Pricing

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

| Event | Per 1,000 | What one unit is |
|---|---:|---|
| `sound` | $3.00 | one sound in the dataset |
| `video` | $3.00 | one 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](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-search-scraper) | Keyword search across every tab, deduplicated. |
| [TikTok Hashtag Scraper — videos by hashtag](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-hashtag-scraper) | Every video under a hashtag, walked deep. |
| [TikTok Trending Scraper — the real Explore feed](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-trending) | The app's real Explore feed, not Creative Center. |
| [TikTok Profile Scraper — followers, likes, bio](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-profile-scraper) | Followers, likes, bio for any public account. |
| [TikTok User Posts Scraper — every video + stats](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-user-posts) | Every video an account posted, with stats. |
| [TikTok Comments Scraper — replies, no duplicates](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-comments-scraper) | Every comment and reply, no duplicate pages. |
| [TikTok Video Downloader — no watermark MP4/MP3](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-video-downloader) | No-watermark MP4, MP3, covers and subtitles. |
| [TikTok Transcript Scraper — no AI, no waiting](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-transcripts) | Subtitles from TikTok's own caption track. |
| [TikTok Live Scraper — rooms, viewers, streams](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-live-scraper) | Live rooms with playable stream links. |
| [TikTok Places Scraper — locations and reviews](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-places-scraper) | Locations with addresses, coordinates and reviews. |
| [TikTok Shop Scraper — Products, Sellers & Reviews](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-shop-scraper) | Shop search, product detail, seller catalogue. |
| [TikTok Shop Category Scraper — every product](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-shop-category-scraper) | Every product in a Shop category and its subcategories. |
| [TikTok Shop Reviews Scraper — full archive](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-shop-reviews-scraper) | The full review archive for a Shop product. |

# Actor input Schema

## `sounds` (type: `array`):

A numeric music ID, or a URL like https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7649183489941670687

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Each term returns matching sounds. With 'Also fetch videos' on, their videos are collected too.

## `maxSoundsPerTerm` (type: `integer`):

How many matching sounds to keep per search term. Sound search is a bounded pool, so a large number simply returns what exists.

## `fetchVideosForFoundSounds` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default: each sound costs its own requests, so this multiplies a search run.

## `maxVideosPerSound` (type: `integer`):

TikTok returns roughly 11 per request and ignores a page size, so this is reached over several requests.

## `onlyThisSound` (type: `boolean`):

TikTok's endpoint is a recommendation feed SEEDED by a sound, not a filtered list — usually 93-100% of what it returns uses the sound, but one sound measured returned only 5%. With this on, every row is checked against the sound ID and the rest are dropped. Turn it off to keep the whole related feed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sounds": [
    "6927016038370428930"
  ],
  "maxSoundsPerTerm": 10,
  "fetchVideosForFoundSounds": false,
  "maxVideosPerSound": 50,
  "onlyThisSound": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Sounds and the videos using them.

# 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 = {
    "sounds": [
        "6927016038370428930"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mu0i/tiktok-sound-scraper").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 = { "sounds": ["6927016038370428930"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mu0i/tiktok-sound-scraper").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 '{
  "sounds": [
    "6927016038370428930"
  ]
}' |
apify call mu0i/tiktok-sound-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mu0i/tiktok-sound-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/PYBKyNqXeHZOuggDj/builds/MfdO0lbvDkoynIYS8/openapi.json