# TikTok Creative Center API (`soilair/tiktok-creative-center-api`) Actor

Extract public TikTok Creative Center Top Ads with titles, engagement metrics, targeting keys, CTR/cost scores, and video URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/soilair/tiktok-creative-center-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Salih Can Kurnaz](https://apify.com/soilair) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Business, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.85 / 1,000 tiktok top 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### TikTok Creative Center API

Extract structured **public TikTok Creative Center Top Ads** data for competitive research, creative analysis, ad intelligence, and downstream analytics. The Actor opens the public Creative Center in a browser session, observes the Top Ads data request, normalizes the result, and emits stable Dataset rows.

This Actor is **not affiliated with TikTok or ByteDance**. It uses the public Creative Center surface and does not require you to provide a TikTok login, cookies, or a residential proxy.

#### What you get

Each result can include the ad ID, title, brand name when the source exposes it, industry key, objective key, likes, CTR score, cost score, public video URL, cover URL, duration, and source metadata. Output is available as the default Apify Dataset and can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel-compatible formats, or consumed through the Dataset API.

The Actor does not claim complete historical TikTok advertising coverage. It reflects the records currently exposed by the public logged-out Creative Center Top Ads surface for the requested country and lookback period. Source availability and result counts can change over time.

#### Input

Use `country` for the market, `periodDays` for the Creative Center lookback period, and `maxResults` to cap output. Supported production periods are 7, 30, and 180 days. A typical request uses `US`, 30 days, and 15–20 results.

#### Pricing

The primary Pay-per-event event is `ad-result`. One event corresponds to one result row successfully emitted to the Dataset. Failed navigation, internal request discovery, replay attempts, and rows that are not emitted are not `ad-result` events. The synthetic Actor-start event is managed by Apify.

#### Reliability and implementation

The production candidate was validated across three fresh browser sessions with identical ad-ID sets and successful isolated request replay. No residential proxy or user-supplied login was required in the validated configuration. The browser remains part of the bootstrap/discovery path because public Creative Center request context can change.

#### Responsible use

Use the data for lawful research, competitive analysis, monitoring, and internal workflows. Respect applicable laws, platform terms, privacy requirements, intellectual-property rights, and rate limits. Do not use the Actor to impersonate users, bypass account controls, or make decisions about individuals based on sensitive attributes.

#### Output and API integration

The output schema links directly to the default Dataset plus `SUMMARY` and `REPORT` records. This makes the Actor suitable for Apify API, MCP, agentic, webhook, and data-pipeline integrations. For incremental workflows, store stable `adId` values in your own system and compare them between runs.

#### Known limitations

Public Creative Center availability may vary by market and time. Some fields are source-optional, and the logged-out public surface can expose fewer ads than the interactive website shows to authenticated users. The Actor reports source-observed values rather than estimating missing values.

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter market code.

## `periodDays` (type: `integer`):

7, 30, or 180; runtime validated.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum unique ad rows emitted.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "US",
  "periodDays": 30,
  "maxResults": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `ads` (type: `string`):

Structured result rows written to the default Dataset.

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

Run-level extraction, quality, source, and billing metrics.

## `report` (type: `string`):

Human-readable run report.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("soilair/tiktok-creative-center-api").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("soilair/tiktok-creative-center-api").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 '{}' |
apify call soilair/tiktok-creative-center-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,soilair/tiktok-creative-center-api"
        }
    }
}

```

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/1C2SIEQAgYgpdg7Ce/builds/LK3R8RaydvAR0PNk0/openapi.json