TikTok Ad Library & Creative Center Scraper — Top Ads, Performance Metrics & Competitor Intelligence

Extract top-performing TikTok ads straight from the official TikTok Creative Center "Top Ads" library — the ad copy, brand, decoded industry and campaign objective, real performance metrics (CTR, likes, comments, shares, CTR percentile), the video creative (cover image + direct MP4), and the advertiser's landing-page URL. Filter by country, industry, objective and time window, sort by CTR or likes, and monitor new competitor creatives over time.

This is the TikTok piece of a complete ad-intelligence stack — the same competitor-research job as the Google Ads Transparency Scraper and the Facebook Ad Library Scraper, now for the fastest-growing ad platform on the planet.

Why this TikTok ad scraper?

Most TikTok ad scrapers return raw, half-empty rows: a cryptic industry_key code, no objective, no landing page, and a video link with nothing around it. This actor drives a real browser so TikTok's own front end signs every request — the reliable path that keeps working when TikTok rotates its signing — and ships the richest dataset in the category:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
Ad copy / caption	✅	✅
Decoded industry (e.g. Haircare, not label_14103000000)	❌ raw code	✅
Decoded campaign objective (Traffic, Conversions, Lead Gen…)	❌	✅
CTR + likes	partial	✅
CTR percentile rank, comments & shares	❌	✅ opt-in
Advertiser landing-page URL (where the ad sends traffic)	❌	✅ opt-in
Every country the ad runs in	❌	✅ opt-in
Objective breakdown (weighting)	❌	✅ opt-in
Video creative: cover image + direct MP4 + duration + aspect ratio	partial	✅
0–100 performance score + high-performer flag	❌	✅
Monitor mode — only NEW ads since last run	❌	✅
Multi-country breadth in one run	❌	✅

Use cases

• Competitive ad intelligence — see exactly which creatives are winning for any industry in any country, with the advertiser's landing page so you know the funnel. Pair it with the Facebook Ad Library Scraper and Google Ads Transparency Scraper for full cross-platform coverage.
• Creative inspiration & ad research — pull the top-CTR videos in Beauty & Personal Care, Games, E-commerce, Apparel, Financial Services and 250+ other industries to brief your creative team.
• Trend & market research — track what objectives, formats and hooks are trending by country and time window (7 / 30 / 180 days).
• Affiliate & dropshipping product research — the landing-page URL surfaces winning products and offers behind the top ads.
• Agency reporting — export a branded, structured table of the best-performing ads in your client's vertical every week.
• Monitoring — schedule recurring runs and capture only new ads to watch a competitor's or category's creative pipeline.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the TikTok Ad Library & Creative Center Scraper, choose your countries, time window, and (optionally) industries / objectives, then click Start.
3. Watch results stream into the dataset table — sort by performance score, preview the creative thumbnails.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "countryCodes": ["US", "GB"],
    "period": "30",
    "orderBy": "ctr",
    "industries": ["Beauty & Personal Care", "Apparel & Accessories"],
    "objectives": ["Conversions"],
    "includeAdDetails": true,
    "maxResults": 100
}

• countryCodes — Creative Center country editions, by ISO code (US, GB, DE, FR, BR, JP, SG, ID, …). Each is scraped separately.
• period — performance window the ranking is computed over: 7, 30 or 180 days.
• orderBy — for_you (TikTok's recommended ranking), ctr (highest click-through), or like (most liked).
• industries (optional) — filter by advertiser industry, by name ("Beauty & Personal Care", "Games", "E-commerce") or numeric id. Each industry is scraped separately.
• objectives (optional) — Traffic, App Installs, Conversions, Video Views, Reach, Lead Generation, Product Sales.
• adLanguages (optional) — filter by creative language (en, es, ar, de, …).
• includeAdDetails (default false) — open each ad's detail page to add the advertiser landing-page URL, every country the ad runs in, comments & shares, the CTR percentile, the objective breakdown and ad keywords (billed as an ad-detail event).
• includeVideoUrl (default true) — include the direct (no-watermark) MP4 creative URL. These are temporary TikTok CDN links that expire after a few hours — fetch promptly.
• maxResults (default 100) — total ad cap across all views.
• monitorMode (default false) / monitorKey — remember ad IDs across runs and emit only new ads. Ideal on a Schedule.
• proxyConfiguration — Apify Proxy for the headless browser (the default works well).

Output

One clean record per ad (type: "ad"):

{
    "type": "ad",
    "adId": "7651891505322672144",
    "adTitle": "¿Cabello con frizz? 🤯 Solo un toque… #AntiFrizz",
    "brandName": null,
    "industry": "Haircare",
    "industryId": "14103000000",
    "objective": "Reach",
    "objectiveKey": "campaign_objective_reach",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "countries": ["US"],
    "period": "last_30_days",
    "periodDays": 30,
    "orderBy": "ctr",
    "ctr": 0.01,
    "ctrPercentile": 0.99,
    "likes": 1043,
    "comments": 9,
    "shares": 59,
    "costTier": 1,
    "videoId": "v14044g50000d8lqi2fog65ktt868tbg",
    "videoDurationSec": 23,
    "coverImageUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/…tplv-noop.image",
    "videoUrl": "https://v16m-default.tiktokcdn.com/…mime_type=video_mp4…",
    "videoWidth": 720,
    "videoHeight": 1280,
    "aspectRatio": 0.563,
    "advertiserUrl": "https://www.ulta.com/brand/eva-nyc?utm_source=tiktok&utm_medium=paid",
    "keywords": null,
    "objectiveBreakdown": [
        { "objective": "Reach", "weight": 5 },
        { "objective": "Product Sales", "weight": 15 }
    ],
    "voiceOver": false,
    "isSearchable": true,
    "searchIndustry": "Beauty & Personal Care",
    "creativeCenterUrl": "https://ads.tiktok.com/business/creativecenter/topads/7651891505322672144/pc/en?region=US&period=30",
    "performanceScore": 87,
    "isHighPerformer": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-26T22:00:00.000Z"
}

What to expect (field coverage)

TikTok exposes some fields only on the ad detail page, and some only for certain ad types — so a few fields are populated only when applicable, never because scraping failed.

Field group	Always present	Present when applicable
Core (adId, adTitle, industry, objective, countryCode, ctr, likes, period, performanceScore, creativeCenterUrl)	✅ ~100%	—
Creative (videoId, duration, cover image, MP4, width/height, aspect ratio)	✅ ~100%	—
brandName	—	only for ads run by a registered brand account (UGC/creator/spark ads have none)
costTier	—	only for ads with a conversion objective
advertiserUrl, countries, comments, shares, ctrPercentile, objectiveBreakdown, keywords, voiceOver	—	with includeAdDetails: true (and a landing page only exists for click-objective ads)

A blank field means TikTok didn't publish that value for that ad — not that the scraper skipped it.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it daily/weekly with monitorMode to capture new competitor or category ads as they appear.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (Slack alert, sheet append, creative-brief generator) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/tiktok-ad-library-scraper').call({
    countryCodes: ['US'],
    period: '30',
    orderBy: 'ctr',
    industries: ['E-commerce'],
    includeAdDetails: true,
    maxResults: 100,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} top TikTok ads`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push top new ads into a sheet, Notion board, or Slack channel.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored industry has new winning ads.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "find the top-CTR beauty ads on TikTok in the US this month and summarize the hooks" and let it run this scraper for you.

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• Google News Scraper — track brand & competitor coverage.
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Tips

• Breadth: pass several countryCodes and industries to fan out across many Top-Ads views in one run; each view exposes up to a few hundred ranked ads.
• Best signal: set orderBy to ctr and turn on includeAdDetails to rank by CTR percentile and capture the landing pages.
• Fresh creatives only: use monitorMode on a daily Schedule to build a feed of brand-new ads in your category.
• Grab videos promptly: videoUrl MP4 links are temporary TikTok CDN URLs that expire within a few hours; download them in the same run that produces them. The creativeCenterUrl link is permanent.
• Cost control: keep includeAdDetails off for fast, cheap category scans; turn it on only when you need landing pages and percentile ranks.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From TikTok's own public Creative Center → Top Ads library (ads.tiktok.com/business/creativecenter), the official showcase of top-performing ads that TikTok publishes for marketers. No login, no API key.

Does it need the TikTok API? No. TikTok's Creative Center has no public API and signs every request in the browser; this actor runs a headless browser so TikTok's own front end performs the signing — no key, no token to maintain.

Can I search a specific brand's ads? This version browses and ranks the Top Ads by country, industry and objective (the highest-signal views). For exhaustive by-advertiser transparency in the EU, see TikTok's separate Commercial Content Library.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the Google Drive integration.

Why is brandName / advertiserUrl empty on some rows? Many top ads are creator/UGC ads with no brand account, and only click-objective ads have a landing page. Those fields are blank only when TikTok genuinely doesn't expose them — see the coverage table above.

The video URL stopped working — why? videoUrl is a temporary TikTok CDN link that expires after a few hours. Re-run the actor to refresh it, or use the permanent creativeCenterUrl.

Is scraping TikTok Creative Center legal? This actor collects publicly available data that TikTok publishes for marketers. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws and TikTok's terms.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained.