💬 TikTok Comments Scraper

Paste a TikTok video URL, get every comment as clean rows. Text, like count, reply count, exact timestamp, language, thread position, and the full commenter profile — handle, nickname, user id, secUid, avatar and profile URL. Replies included on a toggle, flagged and linked to their parent so you can rebuild the thread from a flat CSV.

No login. No cookies. No browser. One plain HTTP request per 50 comments — which is why this is priced at $0.00025 per comment, the lowest per-comment price measured in the lane (see the pricing table below for the live ladder it was measured against on 2026-09-02).

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🎯 What does TikTok Comments Scraper do?

It reads TikTok's own public comment feed for a post and turns it into a dataset — one row per comment, ready for CSV, Excel, JSON, or straight into a Google Sheet.

• 💬 Every comment, paged until TikTok stops serving more
• ↩️ Threaded replies on a toggle — isReply + parentCommentId on every row
• ❤️ Like count and reply count per comment, as numbers you can sort on
• 👤 Commenter identity: @handle, display name, user id, secUid, avatar, profile URL
• 🕒 Exact timestamps — ISO 8601 and raw Unix, so date filters just work
• 📌 Pinned by creator and liked by creator flags — the two strongest engagement signals
• 🏷️ Author labels (e.g. Creator) and verified badges
• 🔗 Mentions parsed out of the text with the mentioned user's id and secUid
• 🖼️ Comment images/stickers as direct URLs
• 🎬 The video caption joined onto every row, free — no second request

Works on video posts and photo posts, full URLs, vm.tiktok.com / vt.tiktok.com short links (resolved for you), and bare numeric video ids.

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📊 Measured field fill — real numbers, not claims

Measured 2026-09-02 on 576 unique comments across 3 real videos (12 pages, 50 per page, zero duplicate comment ids across the whole set), and confirmed on a live 723-row run on Apify (2 videos, replies on: 300 top-level + 423 replies, 723/723 unique ids, 105 seconds):

Field	Fill	Notes
commentId, likeCount	100%
text	99.8% offline / 97.4% live	the misses are image-only comments, which have no text
createdAt, createdAtTimestamp, language	100%	ISO 8601 + Unix seconds
commenterUsername, commenterNickname	100%	@handle and display name
commenterId, commenterSecUid	100%	secUid is the key TikTok's own profile endpoints take
commenterProfileUrl, commenterAvatarUrl	100%
videoId, videoUrl, videoCaption	100%	caption comes free with the comments
commentShareUrl	100% offline / 90.3% live	TikTok's own share link; TikTok's share service intermittently blanks it for a whole page. Reported honestly, not faked
pinnedByCreator, likedByCreator, isReply	100%	always a real boolean, never null
commenterVerificationLabel	2.3% / 1.2% live	only verified and institution accounts have one
authorLabel	0.5% / 0.7% live	TikTok only labels a few authors (e.g. Creator)
imageUrls	1.6% / 2.1% live	only comments that attached an image
mentions	0.2% / 3.6% live	only comments that @-tag someone
hashtags	0% in both samples	comment hashtags are genuinely rare; parsed from the same text_extra structure that produced the mentions above, so the code path is exercised — but we will not quote a fill rate we have not observed

replyCount is 100% on top-level comments. Reply rows carry null there — TikTok's reply endpoint does not return a nested-reply count, and inventing a 0 would be a lie.

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🚀 Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
videoUrls	array	(sample videos)	Video URLs, photo-post URLs, short links, or bare ids
maxCommentsPerVideo	integer	100	Top-level comments per video. 0 = everything TikTok pages
includeReplies	boolean	false	Also fetch replies under each comment that has them
maxRepliesPerComment	integer	20	Cap per comment when replies are on. 0 = all
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy on	Rotates the exit IP. Switch to RESIDENTIAL if you see blocked videos

{
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/7095025543627705643",
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@guinnessworldrecords/video/7172183875538488582"
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 200,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Leaving videoUrls empty is safe: the run falls back to the two documented sample videos and still produces output, rather than failing.

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📦 Output

{
  "videoId": "7095025543627705643",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@zachking/video/7095025543627705643",
  "videoCaption": "#answer to @spidermark790",
  "commentId": "7521666400186221368",
  "text": "Search: original video 7 billion views",
  "likeCount": 104,
  "replyCount": 2,
  "createdAt": "2025-06-30T09:07:40.000Z",
  "createdAtTimestamp": 1751274460,
  "language": "en",
  "isReply": false,
  "parentCommentId": null,
  "replyToCommentId": null,
  "pinnedByCreator": false,
  "likedByCreator": false,
  "authorLabel": null,
  "commenterUsername": "warukaxender",
  "commenterNickname": "WarukA Xender",
  "commenterProfileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@warukaxender",
  "commenterId": "7124324677996381190",
  "commenterSecUid": "MS4wLjABAAAApLC7tj0vaAVzpRNua7nJXsBlXK1XcKgo7...",
  "commenterAvatarUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/...",
  "commenterVerified": false,
  "commenterVerificationLabel": null,
  "mentions": [],
  "hashtags": [],
  "imageUrls": [],
  "commentShareUrl": "https://m.tiktok.com/v/7095025543627705643.html?...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-02T04:23:24.839Z"
}

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💰 Pricing

$0.00025 per comment delivered. Pay per event, no monthly fee, no charge for starting a run.

You are billed as rows are delivered, not before — so if you set a spend cap, the run stops at your cap instead of handing you rows you already paid past. Blocked or unreadable videos return no rows and cost nothing.

Comments	Cost
1,000	$0.25
10,000	$2.50
100,000	$25.00

Replies are billed as comments, because they are comments.

The live ladder this was priced against (read from each actor's pricingInfos on the Apify Store API, 2026-09-02): $0.00028 + $0.00005/start · $0.0003 · $0.0003 + $0.003 per query · $0.0005 + $0.02 per video · $0.0005 · $0.00198 · $0.0025 · $0.00499 + $0.09/start, with the lane leader at $0.00125 per result. $0.00025 is under all of them, with no start fee.

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⚙️ How it works (and why it stays cheap)

TikTok's comment feed is served by a public JSON endpoint that takes four parameters and a referer header. That is the entire request — no signature, no msToken, no X-Bogus, no cookie, no headless browser. A browser-based competitor pays for 4 GB of Chromium on every run; this pays for one HTTP GET per 50 comments. That cost difference is the price difference.

Three things were measured and built around, rather than assumed:

1. Sending empty signature parameters is worse than sending none. The long browser-style query string returns HTTP 200 with a zero-byte body; the minimal four-parameter query returns 65 KB of comments. The query string here is built from a fixed key set and nothing is appended.
2. A page size above ~50 silently loses comments. Measured on one video: count=20 → 19 rows, count=50 → 48 rows, count=100 → still 48 rows but the cursor advances 100, count=200 → 48 rows and the cursor advances 200. Delivery is capped near 50 while the cursor moves by the requested count, so a bigger page skips roughly half the comment section every time. The page size is pinned to 50.
3. A zero-byte HTTP 200 is a block, not an empty comment section. Those two outcomes are counted separately and named separately in the run summary. A blocked video is reported as blocked, never quietly as "this video has no comments".

Reliability details: retries with backoff and a fresh proxy session on every soft block or 5xx; a wall-clock budget derived from the run's own timeout so a big job stops cleanly instead of being killed mid-page; and crash handlers that end the run cleanly with an explanatory status message. The run only fails when the output would be genuinely invalid — nothing read at all and every video blocked.

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🌍 Proxies

Apify Proxy is on by default (automatic/datacenter group). Verified working 2026-09-02 from a residential home IP and through Apify Proxy auto, BUYPROXIES94952 (datacenter) and RESIDENTIAL — all three returned HTTP 200 with full comment payloads.

If a long, high-volume run starts reporting blocked videos in the status message, switch proxyConfiguration to RESIDENTIAL. That is the documented escalation, and the status message tells you when you need it.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a TikTok account, cookies, or an API key? No. Nothing is authenticated. You paste a public video URL.

Can it scrape replies to comments? Yes — turn on includeReplies. Replies come back as ordinary rows with isReply: true and parentCommentId pointing at the comment they answer, so a flat CSV still reconstructs the thread.

Will it get ALL the comments on a video with 60,000 of them? It pages until TikTok stops returning more. TikTok itself caps how deep the public feed goes, and that depth varies by video — so treat very large videos as "as many as TikTok will serve", not a guaranteed 100%. Set maxCommentsPerVideo: 0 to take everything available.

Does it work on photo posts (image carousels)? Yes. /photo/<id> URLs use the same comment endpoint.

Do short links work? Yes. vm.tiktok.com and vt.tiktok.com links are redirect-resolved to the numeric video id first.

What happens if a video is private, deleted, or has comments turned off? It returns no rows for that video, the run still succeeds, and the status message names the video and says it returned zero comments — separately from any video that was actually blocked.

Do I get commenter email addresses? No. TikTok does not publish them, and this actor does not guess or enrich them. What you get is the handle, secUid and profile URL — which is what you need to look a commenter up.

What is secUid and why should I care? It is TikTok's stable, non-numeric user key. TikTok's own profile and feed endpoints accept it, so it is the field that makes a comment row joinable to anything else you scrape.

Can I run this on many videos at once? Yes — pass as many URLs as you like in videoUrls. Each is capped independently by maxCommentsPerVideo.

Is the output stable enough to schedule? Yes. It is a normal Apify Actor: schedule it, pipe it to a webhook, or call it from the API. Field names do not change without a version bump.

How is a comment counted for billing? One charge per row actually written to your dataset. Duplicates are removed before delivery, and rows past your spend cap are never delivered or charged.

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⚖️ Legal & fair use

This actor reads publicly visible comments — the same data any logged-out visitor sees on the video page. It does not log in, does not bypass a paywall or an age gate, does not touch private accounts, and does not collect email addresses, phone numbers or any contact data (TikTok does not publish those).

You are responsible for how you use the output: comply with TikTok's Terms of Service, and with GDPR/CCPA and any other applicable privacy law where personal data is involved. Comment text and usernames are personal data in many jurisdictions — have a lawful basis before you store or process them, and honour deletion requests. Do not use the output to harass, profile or target individuals.

For scraping research and dataset use, see Apify's guidance on web scraping and the law.