# TikTok Top Ads Scraper - Creative Center Ad Inspiration (`seemuapps/tiktok-top-ads-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the best-performing TikTok ads from Creative Center by country, industry and objective - video, likes, CTR rank, budget, landing page and brand.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/tiktok-top-ads-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Seemu Scraping](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 ad results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## 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.

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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 Top Ads Scraper - Creative Center Ad Inspiration

Pull the best-performing TikTok ads in any of 28 markets, filtered by industry, campaign objective and language. Each ad comes with its video, likes, comments and shares, CTR rank, budget level, landing page and brand, ready for ad research and creative briefs.

### What you get

For every top ad:

- **adTitle, brandName, industry, parentIndustry, objective** - what the ad promotes and why it ran (Traffic, Conversions, App Installs, Video Views, Reach, Lead Generation, Product Sales)
- **likes, comments, shares** - engagement on the ad
- **ctrRank / ctrTopPercent** - how its click-through rate ranks against other top ads (e.g. `Top 5%`)
- **budgetLevel** - Low, Medium or High spend tier
- **videoUrl, videoUrls, coverUrl, videoDurationSec, videoWidth, videoHeight** - the creative itself, in 360p to 1080p
- **landingPage** - where the ad sends traffic (store, app, product page)
- **countriesShown** - every market the ad ran in
- **source, hasVoiceOver, isSearchAd** - how the ad was built and served
- **creativeCenterUrl** - link to the ad's page on TikTok Creative Center

### Use cases

- **Ad creative research** - see which hooks, formats and lengths are winning in your industry right now
- **Competitor analysis** - find out which brands are spending, what they promote and where they send traffic
- **Creative briefs and swipe files** - build a library of proven TikTok ads for your team or clients
- **Market research** - compare what performs in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Japan and more
- **UGC and agency prospecting** - find advertisers already investing in TikTok

### How to use

1. Pick one or more **Countries**.
2. Choose a **Time period** (last 7, 30 or 180 days) and how to **Sort by** (For You, Reach, CTR, 6-second view rate or Likes).
3. Optionally narrow by **Industries**, **Campaign objectives** and **Ad languages**.
4. Set **Max ads** and run. Results appear in the **Dataset** tab, where you can export them as CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.

The actor automatically splits broad searches into industry, objective and language slices to surface more unique ads than a single Creative Center page shows. Ads are de-duplicated across every slice and country.

### Output example

```json
{
  "adId": "7673308566858088449",
  "adTitle": "Woke up like this at 56. No injectables, just one jar...",
  "brandName": "l'oreal paris",
  "industry": "Beauty & Personal Care",
  "parentIndustry": "Beauty & Personal Care",
  "objective": "Video Views",
  "likes": 54954,
  "comments": 450,
  "shares": 204,
  "ctrTopPercent": 36,
  "ctrRank": "Top 36%",
  "budgetLevel": "High",
  "videoDurationSec": 43.2,
  "videoUrl": "https://v16m-default.tiktokcdn.com/...",
  "coverUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/...",
  "landingPage": "https://www.walmart.com/ip/...",
  "countriesShown": ["US"],
  "creativeCenterUrl": "https://ads.tiktok.com/business/creativecenter/topads/7673308566858088449/pc/en?countryCode=US&period=30",
  "country": "US",
  "period": 30,
  "sortBy": "impression"
}
```

### Good to know

- Video and cover URLs are signed by TikTok and expire after a few days. Download the videos you want to keep soon after the run.
- Creative Center features a curated set of top-performing ads per market, so a narrow filter (one country, one sub-industry, last 7 days) may return only a handful of ads. Widen the period or add countries for more.
- Turn off **Include ad details** for a faster run. You lose comments, shares, landing page and the full country list.

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Markets to pull top-performing ads from. Each country is searched separately and results are de-duplicated.

## `period` (type: `string`):

Rank ads by performance over the last 7, 30 or 180 days.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Which performance metric ranks the ads within each filter slice.

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Only return ads from these industries or sub-industries. Leave empty for all industries.

## `objectives` (type: `array`):

Only return ads run with these campaign objectives. Leave empty for all objectives.

## `adLanguages` (type: `array`):

Only return ads in these languages. Leave empty for all languages.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also fetch comments, shares, landing page, every country the ad ran in, and the ad source (one extra request per ad).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of unique ads to return. 0 = as many as the filters allow.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "US"
  ],
  "period": "30",
  "sortBy": "for_you",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One record per ad: adId, adTitle, brandName, industry, objective, likes, comments, shares, ctrRank, budgetLevel, video and cover URLs, landingPage, countriesShown, creativeCenterUrl.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Number of filter queries run and unique ads saved.

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "US"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/tiktok-top-ads-scraper").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 = { "countries": ["US"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/tiktok-top-ads-scraper").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "US"
  ]
}' |
apify call seemuapps/tiktok-top-ads-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/tiktok-top-ads-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/vHRTtT2OeocSjEqc8/builds/kjhe8fI8LXNqUeeSQ/openapi.json