TikTok Profile & Stats Scraper

Give it a handle, get that account's full profile 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 and get back a structured record you can drop into a database or hand to an agent.

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 profile row per account: identity, bio, counts, and interaction settings
Price	$0.02 per profile — the same on every Apify plan
Video lists	Not supported. See What this Actor cannot do

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What you get

{
  "itemType": "profile",
  "handle": "duolingo",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@duolingo",
  "userId": "6803362232132698118",
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAA…",
  "nickname": "Duolingo",
  "bio": "the unhinged owl",
  "bioLink": "https://duolingo.com",
  "avatar": "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.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",
  "openFavorite": true,
  "isUnderAge18": false
}

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, which is 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. If you are keeping a watchlist, store that.

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, and it is not something you can infer from follower count.

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Input

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

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

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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 charge event, because this Actor makes one request and delivers one thing. Splitting a single fetch into several billable events to look tiered would be the kind of billing trick this Actor exists to avoid.

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. There are no filler rows in your dataset.
The free plan	Same code path, same fields, same limits. No demo mode, no row cap, no nulls in place of data.

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What this Actor cannot do

Being straight about this up front so you do not buy the wrong tool:

• No video lists. TikTok does not render a creator's videos into the profile page for logged-out clients — the feed is loaded afterwards through a signed API call. Returning video lists would mean reproducing that signature, which this Actor does not do.
• No hashtag pages, no Explore, no search. Those pages load 200 OK for logged-out clients and then render nothing at all. We checked; there is no data in them to extract.
• No comments, no followers, no following lists. Same restriction.
• No private account contents. Private accounts return their public profile shell with isPrivate: true, which is itself the answer to "is this account private".

This delivers less than the largest Actor in this category, and it is priced accordingly — well under half. If you need video lists, buy that one instead; this is the right tool when what you actually need is account-level data for a list of creators, and you would rather pay a small flat rate for exactly that.

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What it is good for

• Creator vetting and influencer shortlists — follower and like counts, verification, business status, account age, and whether duets and stitches are even allowed.
• Watchlists — re-run a list of handles on a schedule and diff the counts. Storing secUid means a handle change does not break the series.
• Competitor and brand monitoring — one run covers as many accounts as you pass.
• Enriching a list you already have — handles in, structured records out, no per-account clicking.

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How it stays working

Profile pages are read from the JSON that TikTok itself renders into the page for logged-out visitors. There is no login, no cookie jar, no proxy pool, and no signature emulation, which means there is nothing in the path that breaks when accounts get banned or a signing algorithm rotates. Measured across twelve consecutive accounts from a plain datacenter address: twelve out of twelve, no throttling.

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Integrating

Every run writes to a standard Apify dataset — REST API, JavaScript and Python clients, scheduled runs, webhooks, and the MCP server for agent use. Two dataset views are provided: Profiles for the headline numbers and Creator vetting for the fields a shortlist actually turns on.