# TikTok Follower Count Scraper — Bulk Account Stats, No Login (`nick.cheng/tiktok-follower-count`) Actor

Get TikTok follower count, likes, video count, bio, verification and account age for any list of handles or profile URLs. Bulk TikTok user stats for influencer research and creator vetting — business flag, duet and stitch settings. No login, no cookies. Charged only for accounts actually found.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nick.cheng/tiktok-follower-count.md
- **Developed by:** [Nicholas Cheng](https://apify.com/nick.cheng) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 profile scrapeds

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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 Follower Count Scraper

**Give it a list of TikTok handles, get each account's follower count, likes, video count and bio as clean JSON.** No login, no cookies, no session tokens, no proxy configuration, no signature reverse-engineering. Pass `@nasa`, `duolingo`, or `https://www.tiktok.com/@nba` — as many as you like in one run.

**You are charged only for accounts that were actually found.** A banned, deleted, or mistyped handle produces an explanatory row and costs nothing.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Input** | TikTok handles (`@name` or `name`) and/or profile URLs |
| **Output** | One row per account: follower count, likes, video count, bio, verification, account age, business flags |
| **Price** | **$0.02 per profile — the same on every Apify plan** |
| **Videos** | **Not fetched.** This Actor is the profiles-only mode of the [TikTok Profile & Video Stats Scraper](https://apify.com/nick.cheng/tiktok-profile-stats-scraper); use that one for per-video play counts |

***

### What you get

```json
{
  "itemType": "profile",
  "handle": "duolingo",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@duolingo",
  "userId": "6803362232132698118",
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAA…",
  "nickname": "Duolingo",
  "bio": "the unhinged owl",
  "bioLink": "https://duolingo.com",
  "isVerified": true,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "createdAt": "2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z",

  "followers": 17800000,
  "following": 312,
  "likes": 494600000,
  "videoCount": 1159,
  "friendCount": 208,

  "isBusinessAccount": true,
  "businessCategory": "Media & Entertainment",
  "commentSetting": "everyone",
  "duetSetting": "everyone",
  "stitchSetting": "everyone",
  "downloadSetting": "everyone"
}
```

Counts are real numbers, not display strings — you can sort and filter without parsing `"17.8M"` first.
`createdAt` is the account creation date as a real ISO timestamp, one of the more useful signals for
spotting a freshly-minted account behind a large follower number. `secUid` is TikTok's stable
internal identifier: handles get changed, `secUid` does not.

The interaction settings — comment, duet, stitch, download — are there because creator vetting
usually needs them. Whether a creator allows duets decides whether a campaign idea is even possible.

***

### Input

```json
{
  "handles": ["@nasa", "duolingo", "netflix"],
  "startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@nba"]
}
```

| Option | Notes |
|---|---|
| `handles` | `@name` or `name`. All resolved in one run |
| `startUrls` | Profile URLs as copied from a browser; the handle is read out of the URL |
| `maxItems` | Hard cap on rows for the run |

Handles and URLs are merged and de-duplicated, so a messy list pasted from a spreadsheet is fine.

***

### Pricing

**$0.02 per profile, on every Apify plan** — Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond. Check
the Pricing tab: all six columns are identical. That is worth checking on any Actor you compare,
including this one, because the price a listing advertises in its title is not always the price a
free-plan run pays.

One request, one profile, one charge. 1,000 accounts cost $20.

#### What you are not charged for

| | What happens here |
|---|---|
| **Accounts that do not exist** | Banned, deleted, or mistyped handles produce one row marked `chargedForThis: false`. Nothing is billed. |
| **Empty or placeholder rows** | If the profile did not come back, no profile row is written. |
| **The free plan** | Same code path, same fields, same limits. No demo mode, no row cap, no nulls in place of data. |

***

### What this Actor cannot do

- **No video lists.** TikTok does not render an account's videos to logged-out clients. For stats on specific videos you already have links to, use the [TikTok Profile & Video Stats Scraper](https://apify.com/nick.cheng/tiktok-profile-stats-scraper) — same code, same prices, plus a $0.01 video event.
- **No follower lists, no search, no hashtag pages.** Same restriction.
- **Private accounts** return their public header (handle, nickname, counts, `isPrivate: true`) — that part is public.

***

### How it stays working

The profile page is fetched exactly as a browser without cookies would fetch it, and the data is read from the JSON TikTok embeds in the page for its own front-end. There is no signature to reverse-engineer and no login to get banned. If TikTok serves a page without profile data, the request is retried a couple of times and then reported as a failure — never filled in with nulls.

***

### Integrating

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nick.cheng~tiktok-follower-count/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"handles":["nasa","duolingo"]}'
```

Official clients exist for JavaScript and Python, and results export as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

# Actor input Schema

## `handles` (type: `array`):

Accounts to look up. Accepts @name or plain name. Pass as many as you like — they are all resolved in one run.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

TikTok profile URLs, for example https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa. Handles are read out of the URL, so links copied from a browser work as-is.

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

Hard ceiling on rows for the whole run, counting profiles and videos together. Leave at 0 for no limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "handles": [
    "@nasa",
    "duolingo",
    "netflix"
  ],
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@nba"
  ],
  "maxItems": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `profiles` (type: `string`):

No description

## `vetting` (type: `string`):

No description

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "handles": [
        "@nasa",
        "duolingo",
        "netflix"
    ],
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.tiktok.com/@nba"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nick.cheng/tiktok-follower-count").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 = {
    "handles": [
        "@nasa",
        "duolingo",
        "netflix",
    ],
    "startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@nba"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nick.cheng/tiktok-follower-count").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 '{
  "handles": [
    "@nasa",
    "duolingo",
    "netflix"
  ],
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@nba"
  ]
}' |
apify call nick.cheng/tiktok-follower-count --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nick.cheng/tiktok-follower-count"
        }
    }
}

```

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/UNtGrcnRpt8ZbU3pa/builds/4fzJSWxVyaByzvejB/openapi.json