# TikTok Trending Scraper — the real Explore feed (`mu0i/tiktok-trending`) Actor Trending videos from TikTok's own Explore feed inside the app, with full stats. Not Creative Center marketing data. - **URL**: https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-trending.md - **Developed by:** [Mu0i](https://apify.com/mu0i) (community) - **Categories:** Videos, Social media - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.35 / 1,000 videos 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? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, 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". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). 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 Trending Scraper — the real Explore feed Trending videos from **TikTok's own Explore feed**, the one the app renders — with real play counts, likes, comments, shares and hashtags. No login, no cookies, no browser. ### Not Creative Center Most "TikTok trends" tools scrape TikTok's **Creative Center**: a marketing site that publishes ranked hashtag tables for advertisers. Useful, but it is a leaderboard, not content. This reads the Explore feed inside the app. You get **videos**, with their actual numbers, as they are being surfaced right now. ### The feed rotates, and the Actor is built around that There is no cursor here — Explore is a live surface, not a list with pages. One request returns at most **18** videos, and two calls seconds apart overlap heavily. So collecting more means polling and keeping what is new. A run for 45 videos, logged: ``` round 1: 18 returned, 18 new, 6 dropped inside the reply (18/45) round 2: 17 returned, 9 new, 6 dropped inside the reply (27/45) round 3: 18 returned, 7 new, 6 dropped inside the reply (34/45) round 4: 17 returned, 11 new, 6 dropped inside the reply (45/45) ``` Every row carries `seenOnRound`, so you can see the rotation working. The run stops itself when three polls in a row bring nothing unseen — so asking for more than TikTok is currently rotating costs a couple of extra calls, not an endless loop. ### 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. Set **Max videos** to bound the run, then press **Start**. You are billed per row, so this field is also your budget. 3. 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 | | | |---|---|---| | `maxVideos` | 50 | Stops here, or when the feed stops producing new videos | Every field, with its default — paste the whole block and delete what you do not need: ```json { "maxVideos": 50 } ``` ### Output `videoId`, `url`, `description`, `createdAt`, `playCount`, `likeCount`, `commentCount`, `shareCount`, `saveCount`, `durationMs`, `coverUrl`, `musicId`, `musicTitle`, `musicAuthor`, `noWatermarkUrl`, `hashtags[]`, `isPhotoPost`, `authorUsername`, `authorNickname`, `authorId`, `authorSecUid`, `seenOnRound`, `collectedAt`. `url` is TikTok's own canonical link, so photo posts point at `/photo/` rather than `/video/` — much of the Explore feed is photo posts. **Sound and video URL are included** where TikTok provides them: `musicId`, `musicTitle`, `musicAuthor` and a watermark-free `noWatermarkUrl`. A small number of items arrive trimmed at source and leave those blank. One row, exactly as it lands in your dataset (long signed CDN links shortened here for readability): ```json { "videoId": "7666060020596968717", "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@velvetgloww1/video/7666060020596968717", "description": "✨ Green Tea for Your Face 😍 I Tried This Unexpected Beauty Hack!", "createdAt": "2026-07-24T11:48:17.000Z", "playCount": 1125418, "likeCount": 15043, "commentCount": 279, "shareCount": 1033, "saveCount": 1555, "durationMs": 12534, "coverUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-p-85c255-tx/o8tEY…?…", "musicId": "7666060041425832718", "musicTitle": "original sound - velvetgloww1", "musicAuthor": "beauty tips !", "noWatermarkUrl": "https://v19-perf.tiktokcdn-us.com/a00c934cedf826a2c0c82adc223e7d1e/6a7…?…", "hashtags": [], "isPhotoPost": false, "authorUsername": "velvetgloww1", "authorNickname": "beauty tips !", "authorId": "7440882687081071659", "authorSecUid": "MS4wLjABAAAANBNJUN_gU8QNAR65mvD3_cs58my4RO-qYn-gKFqgKNk1Bzsky9bg7-nITUDQHljD", "seenOnRound": 1, "collectedAt": "2026-08-14T19:31:33.542Z" } ``` ### Notes - The feed is what a **US** viewer sees. Explore is personalised by region rather than by a parameter you pass. - `collectedAt` is on every row because a trending snapshot is only meaningful with a timestamp. - 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-trending/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{ "maxVideos": 50 }' ``` ### Pricing Pay per result — you are billed for rows you receive, not for time or compute. | Event | Per 1,000 | What one unit is | |---|---:|---| | `video` | $3.00 | one trending 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 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 Sound Scraper — videos using a sound](https://apify.com/mu0i/tiktok-sound-scraper) | Videos that actually use a sound, filtered. | | [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 ## `maxVideos` (type: `integer`): One request returns at most 18. Beyond that the Actor polls the feed and keeps what is new, stopping when the feed stops producing unseen videos — so asking for more than TikTok is currently rotating costs only a couple of extra calls. ## `region` (type: `string`): Read-only note: the feed is whatever a US viewer sees. The region is fixed by how this Actor reaches TikTok, not by a parameter you can change. ## Actor input object example ```json { "maxVideos": 50, "region": "us" } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): Videos from the Explore feed, deduplicated across polls. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("mu0i/tiktok-trending").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("mu0i/tiktok-trending").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 '{}' | apify call mu0i/tiktok-trending --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mu0i/tiktok-trending" } } } ``` 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 ` 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/QO161zpCYKNRaGAvB/builds/bONgqTc3OhkdhIQtw/openapi.json