TikTok Competitor Engagement Leads

Paste a competitor's TikTok URL → get a list of creators who engage with their content, complete with their emails and the comments they left.

What does this actor do?

This actor turns a single competitor TikTok profile URL into a qualified creator-lead list. It finds the creators who actually comment on your competitor's videos, enriches their profiles with follower counts and contact details (email, link-in-bio, social links), captures the comments they left, and outputs a clean, outreach-ready dataset. Because the input is a competitor, not a generic keyword, every lead has already demonstrated interest in your category — warmer than a random search.

Use cases

• Influencer marketing agencies — build campaign shortlists from creators engaging with a brand's competitors.
• D2C brands — find creators already interested in your competitor's products.
• TikTok Shop sellers — recruit affiliate creators who engage with competitor content.
• Brand partnership / outreach teams — assemble contactable lead lists with personalization context.

How it works

A 4-stage pipeline:

1. Fetch competitor videos — collects the competitor's most recent videos (up to maxVideos).
2. Scrape commenters — extracts who commented on each video (up to maxCommentsPerVideo), deduplicates them, and tracks how often each person engaged.
3. Enrich & filter profiles — resolves each commenter's profile (follower count, bio, badges, bio email), then keeps only high-value leads (meets minFollowers and is contactable).
4. Crawl link-in-bio (optional) — for creators with a Linktree/Beacons/bio.link page but no email in their bio, visits the page to find emails, websites, and social links.

How the TikTok data is sourced: Stages 1–3 delegate the raw TikTok scraping to maintained, battle-tested TikTok scraper Actors on the Apify Store, and this actor layers the lead-generation pipeline (dedup, qualification filtering, contact enrichment, lead output) on top. This keeps results reliable as TikTok changes, instead of fighting TikTok's anti-bot/login wall directly. Note that the upstream scrapers incur their own Apify usage cost in addition to this actor's Pay Per Event charges.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
competitorUrls	array (required)	—	One or more TikTok profile URLs to analyze.
maxVideos	integer	3	Recent videos to scrape per competitor (1–50).
maxCommentsPerVideo	integer	30	Max comments to extract per video (10–500).
minFollowers	integer	500	Minimum follower count to qualify a creator (0–10,000,000).
maxLeads	integer	10	Stop after this many qualified leads per competitor, so the cost of a run is predictable. The default of 10 keeps a first/trial run cheap (~$2–3). Raise it (or set 0 for unlimited) for production runs to capture every qualified lead.
maxCommentersToScreen	integer	0	Optional cap on how many of the most-engaged commenters get screened in the profile stage (bounds cost on very large inputs). 0 means screen all unique commenters.
onlyWithEmail	boolean	false	Only output creators where an email was found.
enrichLinkInBio	boolean	true	Crawl link-in-bio pages to find more emails.
includeEngagementRate	boolean	false	Fetch several recent videos per qualified lead to estimate an engagement rate (adds cost, qualified leads only). When off (default), the engagement fields are left empty. The estimate is capped at 100%.
bioKeywords	array	[]	Only include creators whose bio contains one of these keywords.
proxyConfiguration	object	RESIDENTIAL	Proxy for this actor's own direct requests (e.g. link-in-bio enrichment). The upstream TikTok scrapers handle their own proxies.

Output data

One dataset row per qualified creator lead:

{
  "username": "creator_handle",
  "displayName": "Creator Display Name",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@creator_handle",
  "profilePicUrl": "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/...",
  "followerCount": 45200,
  "followingCount": 312,
  "totalLikesReceived": 1200000,
  "videoCount": 234,
  "isVerified": false,
  "isBusinessAccount": true,
  "isPrivate": false,
  "bio": "Fitness creator 💪 | Collabs: creator@email.com | Based in LA",
  "bioEmail": "creator@email.com",
  "linkInBio": "https://linktr.ee/creator_handle",
  "linkInBioEmail": "creator.business@gmail.com",
  "primaryEmail": "creator@email.com",
  "additionalLinks": {
    "instagram": "https://instagram.com/creator_handle",
    "youtube": "https://youtube.com/@creator_handle",
    "website": "https://creatorbrand.com"
  },
  "engagementRate": 4.7,
  "avgVideoLikes": 2100,
  "avgVideoComments": 89,
  "competitorEngagement": {
    "competitorUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@brandname",
    "competitorUsername": "brandname",
    "videosCommentedOn": 3,
    "totalComments": 5,
    "sampleComments": [
      { "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@brandname/video/123456", "commentText": "Love this product! 🔥", "commentLikes": 12 }
    ]
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T14:30:00.000Z",
  "dataSource": "tiktok-competitor-engagement-leads"
}

Note: engagementRate, avgVideoLikes, and avgVideoComments are only populated when includeEngagementRate is enabled. On a default run they are returned as null.

Key fields:

• primaryEmail — the field to use for outreach. Set to bioEmail when present, otherwise linkInBioEmail.
• engagementRate — estimated (avgVideoLikes + avgVideoComments) / followerCount * 100, capped at 100%. Only populated when includeEngagementRate is enabled (otherwise null).
• sampleComments — up to 3 comments the creator left on the competitor, for personalized outreach.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

Event	Price
Actor run started	$0.50 per run
Qualified creator lead	$0.20 per lead

You are never charged for commenters that get filtered out (below minFollowers, no contact info, private without email, or skipped). You only pay for leads that pass every filter and get written to the dataset.

Example: A default run (capped at 10 leads) costs about $2–3 and returns 10 real, contactable creator leads ($0.22 per lead). Raise maxLeads for production runs to capture every qualified creator — 10–50× cheaper than Favikon/Modash monthly subscriptions.

Tips for best results

• Pick competitors with active comment sections — that's where the leads come from.
• Set minFollowers to match your niche: the default of 500 captures micro-creators; raise it (e.g. 5,000+) for established creators.
• Use bioKeywords to narrow to relevant creators (e.g. ["fitness", "gym", "workout"]).
• Leave enrichLinkInBio on to significantly improve email discovery.
• Turn on onlyWithEmail when you want a 100% contactable list (at the cost of volume).

FAQ

What about proxies / anti-blocking? The actor delegates TikTok scraping to maintained upstream scrapers that handle their own proxies and anti-blocking, so you don't have to. The proxyConfiguration input only applies to this actor's own direct requests — mainly the optional link-in-bio enrichment — where residential proxies help but aren't strictly required.

Why are some commenters filtered out? Casual consumers below minFollowers, accounts with no way to contact them, and private accounts without a public email are removed so you only pay for usable leads.

How accurate are the emails? Emails are extracted only when creators publish them in their bio or link-in-bio page for business contact. We reject placeholders and invalid patterns, but always sanity-check before sending.

Is this legal? This actor extracts only publicly available data creators have intentionally shared. See the disclaimer below; you are responsible for compliant outreach.

Integrations

Connect via Apify's built-in integrations: Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, and webhooks. Example workflow: run weekly on a schedule → push new leads to a Google Sheet → trigger an outreach sequence in your email tool.

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Legal disclaimer

This actor extracts only publicly available data that creators have intentionally shared on their TikTok profiles (bios, link-in-bio pages). Emails are only extracted when creators have explicitly published them for business contact purposes. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws (GDPR, CAN-SPAM, CASL) when contacting extracted leads. This actor does not access private data, bypass authentication, or violate TikTok's technical access controls beyond standard web browsing.