TikTok Thumbnail Downloader - Full-Size Video Covers

Download TikTok video thumbnails in the highest resolution TikTok has - up to 1080x1920 - plus the animated hover cover, the original first-frame cover and the creator's profile picture. Paste video links or usernames and get permanent download links in bulk. No login, no browser extension, no watermark.

What you get

• Full-size cover thumbnail for every video, as a JPEG (most covers are 720x1280 to 1080x1920)
• Animated cover (optional) - the moving preview TikTok plays on hover, as an animated WebP
• Original cover (optional) - the first frame of the video, before the creator picked a custom cover
• Creator avatar (optional) - the profile picture in the largest size available (up to 1080x1080), saved once per creator
• Real width, height, format and file size of every image, read from the file itself
• Permanent download links: every image is saved to the run's storage, because TikTok's own image links expire within days
• Video details on every row: video ID, link, caption, creator, post date, views, likes, comments, shares and saves
• Works for video links, photo slideshow posts and whole profiles (the latest N videos)
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets from the Apify console, or pull results through the API

Use cases

• Content research and competitor analysis - collect the covers of top-performing videos in your niche
• Thumbnail design inspiration - build mood boards and swipe files from creators you admire
• Creator and influencer vetting - archive a creator's recent covers and avatar for a pitch deck or media kit
• Social media reporting - drop real cover images into client reports and dashboards
• Dataset building - gather labelled cover images for computer vision, classification or recommendation models

How to use

1. Paste TikTok video links into TikTok video links (tiktok.com/@user/video/..., tiktok.com/@user/photo/..., vm.tiktok.com/... short links, or bare video IDs) - and/or add usernames to Profiles
2. For profiles, set Max videos per profile (default 10)
3. Choose which images you want: Cover thumbnail (on by default), Animated cover, Original cover, Creator avatar
4. Pick a Preferred image format - JPEG opens everywhere, WebP is smaller
5. Run the actor. Images appear in the Key-value store tab, and one row per video appears in the Dataset tab with a link to each file

Turn off Save image files if you only want TikTok's own image links (they expire after a few days, so download them quickly).

Output format

One dataset row per video:

{
  "inputUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7697307919943060767",
  "profile": null,
  "status": "ok",
  "message": null,
  "videoId": "7697307919943060767",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7697307919943060767",
  "contentType": "video",
  "author": "khaby.lame",
  "authorName": "Khabane lame",
  "description": "I guess is time to retire #learnfromkhaby #comedy",
  "createTime": "2026-10-16T16:46:21.000Z",
  "views": 3300000,
  "likes": 272900,
  "comments": 6513,
  "shares": 31500,
  "saves": 14618,
  "coverUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/...~tplv-tiktokx-origin.image?...",
  "dynamicCoverUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/...",
  "originCoverUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/...",
  "avatarUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/...",
  "cdnLinksExpireAt": "2026-10-22T23:00:00.000Z",
  "coverFileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<id>/records/khaby.lame-7697307919943060767-cover.jpg",
  "dynamicCoverFileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<id>/records/khaby.lame-7697307919943060767-dynamicCover.webp",
  "originCoverFileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<id>/records/khaby.lame-7697307919943060767-originCover.jpg",
  "avatarFileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<id>/records/khaby.lame-avatar.jpg",
  "width": 1080,
  "height": 1920,
  "coverBytes": 206545,
  "images": [
    {
      "kind": "cover",
      "sourceUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/...",
      "fileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<id>/records/khaby.lame-7697307919943060767-cover.jpg",
      "fileKey": "khaby.lame-7697307919943060767-cover.jpg",
      "format": "jpeg",
      "width": 1080,
      "height": 1920,
      "bytes": 206545,
      "animated": false
    }
  ],
  "downloadedAt": "2026-10-20T23:50:56.867Z"
}

• coverFileUrl, dynamicCoverFileUrl, originCoverFileUrl and avatarFileUrl are permanent public download links
• coverUrl and the other ...Url fields are TikTok's own links, which stop working at cdnLinksExpireAt
• images lists every saved image with its real pixel size, format, file size and whether it is animated
• status is ok, partial (some requested images don't exist for that post, explained in message), not_found, invalid_input, error or not_processed

Pricing

Pay only for results:

• $0.015 per video with at least one image delivered ($15 per 1,000 videos). Every image type you turn on is included in that price.
• $0.015 per profile that returns videos (covers looking up the profile and listing its videos).

Rows with status not_found, invalid_input, error or not_processed are never charged. Example: 2 profiles x 50 videos = 2 x $0.015 + 100 x $0.015 = $1.53.

Notes & limits

• Resolution depends on the upload. TikTok stores covers at the size the video was posted in, so some covers are 720x1280 or 1048x1518 rather than 1080x1920.
• Not every video has an animated cover. Videos with a custom cover, and all photo slideshows, usually have none - the row says so in message.
• Photo slideshows return the slideshow's cover image. To download every photo in a slideshow, use a TikTok slideshow downloader.
• Profiles return the most recent videos; pinned videos can appear first even if they are older.
• Private, deleted and region-locked videos can't be read and come back as not_found.
• Up to 500 video links and 500 videos per profile per run.
• Only download content you have the right to use, and respect creators' copyright.