# Tiktok video downloader (`pocesar/download-tiktok-video`) Actor

Download TikTok videos in bulk and save to Apify Key value store

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pocesar/download-tiktok-video.md
- **Developed by:** [Paulo Cesar](https://apify.com/pocesar) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 559 total users, 0 monthly users, 96.3% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 1.01 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Tiktok video downloader

Download multiple public tiktok videos in parallel to the Apify Key Value store.

### Supported URLs

- `https://www.tiktok.com/@username/video/`...

### Custom data

If you need to pass custom data to the output, set the `userData` object of the request in the `startUrls` array and it will be appended to the output

```json
{
    "startUrls": [{
        "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@.../video/...",
        "userData": {
            "userid": "6236572396729"
        }
    }]
}
```

### Integration

Integrates with the https://apify.com/pocesar/merge-key-value-store-pieces to merge the output as one output for each chunks downloaded.
Otherwise, check the way for doing this manually below.

### Output

The generated output is the following:

```jsonc
{
	"url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7211630755884043525", // original URL requested
	"hash": "1e0ef015", // the internal hash of the video, never changes between requests
	"partsUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/SOME_ID/records/1e0ef015", // the URL to the Key Value store where the video parts are stored
    "userData": {
        "userid": "6236572396729"
    },
	"#error": false // hidden field if there was an error
}
```

The video is chunked in parts of ~2MB each and saved to the Key Value store. To be able to download it, you'll need to download all the parts and concatenate them together. Here's a small example that can be used in the browser:

```js
const { appendFileSync } = require('node:fs');

async function main(datasetId) {
    const items = await fetch(`https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/${datasetId}/items?clean=true&format=json`).then((response) => response.json());

    const firstVideo = items[0].partsUrl; // partsUrl contains the location to the Key Value store

    // get the parts from the Key value store
    const { parts, length, contentType } = await fetch(firstVideo).then((response) => response.json());

    console.log({ parts, length, contentType });

    // wait for all parts to be downloaded
    for (const url of parts) {
        // download part using fetch
        const downloaded = await fetch(url);
        // get an arrayBuffer from the chunk
        const arrayBuffer = new Uint8Array(await downloaded.arrayBuffer());

        console.log(`Downloaded ${arrayBuffer.byteLength} bytes from ${url}`);

        // write downloaded chunk to file
        appendFileSync('video.mp4', arrayBuffer);
    }
}

main('YOUR_DATASET_ID');
```

# Actor input Schema

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

Post urls that contains video publicly available

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Select proxy for download

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many times the request should be retried before giving up

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7211630755884043525"
    }
  ],
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "maxRequestRetries": 10
}
```

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7211630755884043525"
        }
    ],
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    },
    "maxRequestRetries": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pocesar/download-tiktok-video").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 = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7211630755884043525" }],
    "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },
    "maxRequestRetries": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pocesar/download-tiktok-video").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7211630755884043525"
    }
  ],
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "maxRequestRetries": 10
}' |
apify call pocesar/download-tiktok-video --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pocesar/download-tiktok-video"
        }
    }
}
```

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/5kThqg0kUkp50prLA/builds/ZE3gF7eKcHxYDGpVI/openapi.json