TikTok Stories Scraper: Active Stories & Video Links, No Login

Get the stories a public TikTok account has up right now: this Actor returns every active story as one row with its video or photo links, best-quality MP4, post time, expiry time, views, likes, sound and caption, with no login and no cookies. Turn on saveMedia and the videos and photos are saved to Apify, so you keep them after the story disappears.

On 2026-10-21 (UTC) the example input (five accounts, 13 active stories) came back in about 10 seconds.

• Every active story, in TikTok's play order or newest first. storyPosition says where the story sits in the account's queue, activeStoriesCount how many are up.
• When it disappears. expiresAt and hoursLeft on every row, next to createdAt.
• The best-quality MP4. bestQualityVideoUrl is the highest-resolution file TikTok offers (often 1080p), with its size, resolution and codec. Photo stories list every image in imageUrls.
• Files you can keep. With saveMedia, each video or set of photos is copied into the run's storage and linked in savedMediaUrls. Those links open without any header and do not expire with the story.
• Only new stories on a schedule. With onlyNewStories, a scheduled run returns only the stories it has not returned before, so each story is paid for once.
• No row without a reason. An account with no story up, a private account, an unknown username or a verification page comes back as a free row that says so.
• Up to 200 accounts per run, as usernames, profile URLs or numeric user IDs.

Unofficial and not affiliated with TikTok. It reads only what TikTok shows to any visitor without logging in: no private accounts, no direct messages, nothing behind a login.

What people use it for

• Archiving stories before they vanish: a story is gone after 24 hours. Schedule the Actor with onlyNewStories and saveMedia to keep a copy of every story an account posts.
• Brand and competitor monitoring: see what a brand, a creator you work with or a competitor puts in their stories, and how many views each one gets.
• Influencer campaign proof: keep the story a creator posted for a campaign, with its post time and view count.
• Content research: which sounds and formats accounts use in stories, as one clean JSON row per story.

How to get the active stories of a TikTok account

1. Put the accounts in profiles: jamescharles, @jamescharles, the profile URL or a numeric user ID, one per line.
2. Optionally turn on saveMedia to keep the videos and photos, or onlyNewStories for scheduled runs.
3. Click Start.
4. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call the Actor from the Apify API, Python or Node.js and read the rows as JSON.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
profiles	none	Usernames, profile URLs or numeric user IDs, one per line (commas and spaces also separate entries). Up to 200 per run.
maxStoriesPerProfile	100	At most this many stories per account (up to 500). A free row says how many were left out.
order	oldest-first	oldest-first is TikTok's play order; newest-first puts the latest story first.
onlyNewStories	false	Return only stories that an earlier run with the same monitorName did not return.
monitorName	default	Separate memories for separate schedules. Letters, digits and hyphens.
saveMedia	false	Save each story's best-quality MP4 or all its photos to the run's storage and link them in savedMediaUrls.
useProxy	true	Retry through a US proxy only if TikTok answers with a rate limit or an empty response. Off = no proxy is used or paid for.

{
    "profiles": ["jamescharles", "https://www.tiktok.com/@complex"],
    "onlyNewStories": true,
    "monitorName": "brands",
    "saveMedia": true
}

If you leave profiles out, the example in the input form is read and the run log says so. An empty list is rejected with a free invalid-input row.

Output

One row per active story. A video story looks like this (links shortened):

{
    "status": "ok",
    "inputProfile": "jamescharles",
    "username": "jamescharles",
    "usernameMatchesInput": true,
    "nickname": "James Charles",
    "verified": true,
    "followerCount": 39156907,
    "storyId": "7698947200063212814",
    "storyUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@jamescharles/video/7698947200063212814",
    "storyType": "video",
    "storyPosition": 3,
    "activeStoriesCount": 5,
    "createdAt": "2026-10-21T02:47:23.000Z",
    "expiresAt": "2026-10-22T02:47:23.000Z",
    "hoursLeft": 11.2,
    "caption": null,
    "videoUrl": "https://v16-webapp-prime.us.tiktok.com/video/...",
    "bestQualityVideoUrl": "https://v16-webapp-prime.us.tiktok.com/video/...",
    "bestQualityWidth": 1080,
    "bestQualityHeight": 1920,
    "bestQualityCodec": "h265_hvc1",
    "bestQualityBytes": 1032838,
    "durationSeconds": 10,
    "videoWidth": 720,
    "videoHeight": 1280,
    "imageUrls": [],
    "playCount": 62900,
    "likeCount": 961,
    "commentCount": 0,
    "shareCount": 15,
    "saveCount": 0,
    "musicTitle": "original sound",
    "isAd": false,
    "mediaSaved": null,
    "savedMediaUrls": []
}

Every row also has source, scrapedAt, userId, secUid, createTime, videoDownloadUrl, imageCount, coverUrl, countsMayBeRounded, musicId, musicAuthor, musicIsOriginal, musicUrl, hashtags, mentions and mediaNote. Notes on the columns:

• TikTok's video links (videoUrl, videoDownloadUrl, bestQualityVideoUrl, musicUrl) open only with the header Referer: https://www.tiktok.com/ and expire within hours. Image links open without a header. Use saveMedia for links that open anywhere and last.
• storyPosition 1 is the oldest active story, the first one TikTok plays. With order: "newest-first" the rows come newest first and keep their position numbers.
• bestQualityCodec is h264 (plays everywhere) or h265_hvc1 (HEVC: smaller files, but some older players and Windows without the HEVC extension do not open it). TikTok often offers 1080p only as HEVC.
• storyType is photo for photo stories: they have imageUrls and imageCount, and no duration or video links.
• hoursLeft is counted from the moment of the run.
• mediaSaved is null when saveMedia is off, true when every file of the story was saved, and false with the reason in mediaNote when a file could not be saved.
• Counts are plain integers exactly as TikTok publishes them. TikTok rounds views, likes, comments and shares of 10,000 and more; countsMayBeRounded is true on those rows.
• Story captions are often empty; caption is then null.

FAQ

How can I see someone's TikTok stories without an account? Put their username or profile URL in profiles and click Start. Each story they have up right now comes back as one row with its video or photo links, post time, expiry time and view count. No login and no cookies are needed.

How do I download TikTok stories as MP4? Turn on saveMedia. Each story's best-quality MP4 (or every photo of a photo story) is saved to the run's storage, and savedMediaUrls links to the files. Without it, bestQualityVideoUrl is TikTok's own link, which needs the header Referer: https://www.tiktok.com/.

Can I save TikTok stories before they disappear? Yes. Schedule the Actor every few hours with onlyNewStories and saveMedia on. Each run returns and saves only the stories it has not returned before, so you keep a copy of each story and pay for it once.

Does the account know I viewed its story? The Actor reads stories the way a visitor who is not logged in does, so no TikTok account of yours is involved.

Why did an account return no stories? Stories disappear 24 hours after they are posted, and many accounts have none up most of the time. A free no-active-stories row says so; private and unknown accounts get their own free rows, so you never pay for stories that are not there.

How much does it cost? $9.00 per 1,000 stories on the Apify Free plan, down to $3.80 per 1,000 on paid plans. Stories with saved media cost $20.00 per 1,000, down to $10.00 on paid plans. Rows that explain a missing or empty result are free.

Rows that are never charged

Status	Meaning
no-active-stories	TikTok listed no active story for the account at the time of the run.
no-new-stories	With onlyNewStories: every active story was already returned by an earlier run with the same monitorName.
no-such-profile	TikTok returned no profile for the username (code 10221).
private-account	The account is private, so its stories were not requested.
list-refused	TikTok refused the account's story list (code 10201).
max-stories-reached	The account had more active stories than maxStoriesPerProfile.
stopped-reading	Reading stopped part way (a later page could not be read). The rows returned before that are complete.
verification-page	TikTok showed a verification page (a check that the visitor is a person). The Actor does not try to get past it; the run stops there.
blocked	TikTok refused or kept answering with a rate limit or an empty response.
unreadable	The page could not be read (tiktokStatusCode has TikTok's code when it gave one).
invalid-input / duplicate	The entry could not be read, or it is the same account as an earlier entry.
budget-reached / not-checked	The run's maximum total charge had no room for more, or the list was longer than one run takes.

Pricing

• $9.00 per 1,000 stories returned on the Apify Free plan, down to $3.80 per 1,000 on paid plans, charged only for rows with status: "ok".
• $20.00 per 1,000 stories with saved media (saveMedia on and every file saved), down to $10.00 per 1,000 on paid plans. A story whose file could not be saved is charged as a plain story.
• The Actor returns only as many stories as the run's maximum total charge can pay for, and a free row says what was left out.
• If Apify restarts a run, the stories already in the dataset are not returned or charged again.

Good to know

• Unofficial. Public data only. This Actor is not affiliated with TikTok.
• The rows are the stories TikTok shows to a visitor who is not logged in. It can differ from what you see in the app while logged in.
• For a numeric user ID, TikTok gives the same empty answer for an account with no story and for an ID that does not exist; the free row says so.
• Saved files stay in the run's storage for as long as Apify keeps the run's data (see your plan's data retention). Download them if you need them longer.
• The Actor does not read comments, viewers of a story or follow short links (vm.tiktok.com); open a short link in a browser and paste the profile URL.
• If TikTok shows a verification page, the run stops there and the rows returned before it are complete.

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