TikTok Scraper: hashtags, search, sounds, places and profiles

Price per 1,000 results	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
This Actor	$2.10	$1.40	$1.05	$0.70
Most-used alternative	$3.00	$2.00	$1.50	$1.00

Turn any TikTok hashtag, search keyword, sound, place or profile into a clean table of videos: video URL, caption, views, likes, comments, shares, saves, post date, duration, sound, tagged place, subtitles, hashtags, and the creator's username, follower count and bio link. Search accounts by keyword. Optionally save the MP4 files and the spoken transcript. No login, no cookies, no TikTok account.

• In short: TikTok Hashtag & Search Scraper (Apify actor transparent_meteorite/tiktok-hashtag-search-scraper) reads the public video feeds of TikTok hashtags, sounds (music), places (locations) and profiles (videos and reposts), plus TikTok video and account search, and returns one row per video or account.
• Who it is for: marketers and agencies finding trends and creators, brands tracking a campaign hashtag, influencer research, social listening, researchers.
• Input: hashtags; search keywords (videos or accounts); sound URLs or IDs; place URLs or IDs; profiles with videos and/or reposts; results per source; date, likes and views filters; max items; MP4, cover and subtitle download; transcript text; monitor mode; proxy.
• Output: 39 fields per video: id, webVideoUrl, text, playCount, diggCount, commentCount, shareCount, collectCount, createTimeISO, engagementRate, hashtags, isPinned, isSponsored, locationMeta (place, address, city, category), videoMeta (subtitleLinks, covers), musicMeta, authorMeta (name, fans, verified, bio link), mediaUrls, transcript. Account rows: username, name, bio, followers, likes, verified. JSON, CSV or Excel.
• Pricing: pay per event. Per video or account delivered: $0.0021 free plan, $0.0014 Bronze, $0.00105 Silver, $0.0007 Gold, Platinum and Diamond. MP4 download (optional): $0.0009 to $0.0003 per video.
• Limits: only what TikTok shows logged-out visitors; a feed usually runs to a few hundred videos, account search to about 10 accounts per keyword.

Type a hashtag, sound, place or profile, press Start, get its videos as a table in under a minute.

Run in 30 seconds

1. Open the actor in Apify Console (a free Apify account is enough).
2. Press Start with the prefilled input: 30 videos of #cooking, about $0.09 on the free plan.
3. Open the Output tab: the Videos view is a table. Download as CSV, Excel or JSON.

{
  "hashtags": ["cooking"],
  "searchQueries": ["pasta recipe"],
  "resultsPerPage": 30
}

An empty input {} also works: it reads 30 videos of #cooking.

Use cases

• Trend and content research: pull the top videos for any hashtag with plays, likes and shares to see what is working right now.
• Influencer and creator discovery: find accounts posting under a niche hashtag and rank them by engagement.
• Brand and campaign monitoring: track a branded hashtag on a schedule and receive only new videos.
• Market and competitor analysis: compare hashtag, sound or place feeds over time and export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Why choose this over alternatives

	This actor	Typical TikTok hashtag scrapers
Price per video (free plan)	$0.0021	$0.0037
Price per video (Gold)	$0.0007	$0.0017
Hashtags, search, sounds, places, profiles and account search in one run	Yes	Often separate tools
Tagged place (name, address, city, category) on every video	Yes	Rarely
Subtitle links, transcript text, MP4 download	Yes	Often extra tools
Hashtag total views and video count on every row	Yes	Rarely
Engagement rate per video	Yes	No
Date, likes and views filters, combined, no filter surcharge	Yes	Partly, often a surcharge
Monitor mode (only new videos)	Yes	No
Hashtags or searches that fail, filtered videos	Not charged	Varies

What you get: output fields

Field	Meaning
id, webVideoUrl	Video ID and link
text	Caption
playCount, diggCount, commentCount, shareCount, collectCount	Views, likes, comments, shares, saves
engagementRate	(likes + comments + shares) / views, in percent
createTime, createTimeISO	When it was posted
hashtags, mentions	Hashtags and @mentions
videoMeta	Duration, size, cover and original cover, subtitleLinks (language, format, URL), downloadAddr when downloaded
musicMeta	Sound name, author, original sound flag, play URL, cover, musicUrl
locationMeta	Tagged place: name, address, city, country, category, placeUrl
isPinned, isSponsored, hasTikTokShopProduct, effectStickers, slideshowImageLinks	Profile pin, paid partnership, shop link, effects, photo-post images
mediaUrls, transcript	Stored MP4/cover links and spoken text, when requested
searchMusic, searchPlace, fromProfileSection	Which sound, place or profile section the row came from
authorMeta	Creator username, nickname, profile URL, verified, followers, following, likes, videos, bio, bio link
isAd, isSlideshow, isAiGenerated, textLanguage, locationCreated	Flags and language
searchHashtag	For hashtag feeds: name, ID, total views and total videos of the hashtag
searchQuery, input, scrapedAt	The keyword, the input, read time

Sample row (shortened):

{
  "id": "7638304516588195103",
  "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@cristiiicarrillo/video/7638304516588195103",
  "text": "Creamy pasta recipe ... #creamypasta #pasta #easyrecipe",
  "playCount": 6700000,
  "diggCount": 267000,
  "commentCount": 1129,
  "shareCount": 53700,
  "createTimeISO": "2026-05-10T16:42:50.000Z",
  "engagementRate": 4.8,
  "authorMeta": { "name": "cristiiicarrillo", "fans": 94400, "verified": false },
  "searchQuery": "pasta recipe"
}

Input options

• hashtags: hashtag names (cooking, #cooking) or https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking URLs.
• searchQueries: keywords or phrases, like the TikTok search box.
• searchSection: videos (default) or users for account search (rows of type: "user": username, name, bio without e-mails, followers, likes, verified).
• musics: sound URLs (https://www.tiktok.com/music/...-7061837257761639194) or IDs: videos that use the sound.
• places: place URLs (https://www.tiktok.com/place/...-42203861083965390) or IDs: videos tagged at the place.
• profiles + profileScrapeSections (videos, reposts): a creator's feed.
• resultsPerPage (default 30): videos (or accounts) per source.
• shouldDownloadVideos + maxVideoSizeMB (default 60): save MP4s (best H.264 quality under the limit) to the run's key-value store. shouldDownloadCovers, shouldDownloadSubtitles (WebVTT), includeTranscriptText: covers, subtitle files and plain-text transcripts.
• oldestPostDate, newestPostDate (a date or "7 days"), leastDiggs, mostDiggs, minPlayCount: filters; skipped videos are not charged.
• maxItems: hard cap across the run. A run also stops at your Max cost per run setting.
• monitorMode + monitorStoreName: only videos not delivered before.
• proxyConfiguration: residential US by default (required, see below).

Pricing

Pay per event. No subscription, no rental fee.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Video or account delivered	$0.0021	$0.0014	$0.00105	$0.0007	$0.0007	$0.0007
MP4 downloaded (only with Download videos on)	$0.0009	$0.0007	$0.00056	$0.0003	$0.0003	$0.0003

Videos	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
1,000	$2.10	$1.40	$1.05	$0.70
10,000	$21	$14	$10.50	$7

Not charged: sources that cannot be read after retries, downloads that fail or exceed the size limit, videos removed by a filter, and videos already delivered in monitor mode. Proxy traffic is included in the price.

How to run it

• Console: fill the form, press Start.
• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/transparent_meteorite~tiktok-hashtag-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN> with the input JSON as the body.
• Python: ApifyClient(token).actor("transparent_meteorite/tiktok-hashtag-search-scraper").call(run_input={"hashtags": ["cooking"], "resultsPerPage": 100})
• Schedules and integrations: run daily with monitor mode on and send new videos to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Limits and honest caveats

• TikTok shows logged-out visitors a hashtag feed of a few hundred videos, ranked by TikTok, not every video ever posted with the tag. Large resultsPerPage values stop where TikTok's feed ends; the log says so.
• Account search returns the accounts TikTok shows on its first results page, usually 10 per keyword.
• Profile feeds come from TikTok's own profile page and reach a few dozen recent videos per section; for profile stats and filters, pair it with our TikTok Profile Scraper.
• Long videos are large (a 5-minute video is 35-110 MB); the size limit skips them and says why in videoMeta.downloadError.
• Search results follow TikTok's relevance ranking and vary by country; the default proxy is US.
• The actor runs a real headless browser so TikTok's own page code signs every request. That takes a few seconds per page, so runs are slower than plain-HTTP scrapers, but nothing is forged and no account is used.
• Residential US proxy is required: TikTok returns empty hashtag feeds to datacenter IPs. Video files, images and scripts are not sent through the proxy, which keeps the cost per video low.

FAQ

Do I need a TikTok account or cookies? No.

Can I get videos from several hashtags at once? Yes: list them all; each gets up to resultsPerPage videos, and searchHashtag on each row tells you which hashtag it came from.

Does it download the videos? Yes, if you turn on Download videos: each MP4 is stored in the run's key-value store and linked in mediaUrls. Only download videos you have the rights to use.

Can I get subtitles or a transcript? Yes. videoMeta.subtitleLinks lists TikTok's caption files for every video that has them; Add transcript text puts the spoken words in a transcript field.

Can I find every video at a restaurant or venue? Yes: put the place URL in places. Every row has locationMeta with the name, address, city and category.

Can I find small creators? Yes: set mostDiggs (maximum likes) and read authorMeta.fans.

What does a failed hashtag cost? Nothing. Only delivered videos are charged.

Common use cases and what to do with the data

Brand and campaign monitoring. Track a branded hashtag every day and keep a running log of who posts under it. Because each row carries authorMeta, playCount and engagementRate, you can rank participants by reach and spot the creators whose posts perform far above their follower count.

Content research for creators and agencies. Pull the top videos for five to ten niche hashtags, then look at text, hashtags, musicMeta and videoMeta.duration side by side. Patterns in caption length, sound choice and video length are easy to spot in a spreadsheet, and they tell you what the platform is currently rewarding in your niche.

Influencer shortlists. Run a keyword search in the users section and sort accounts by followers and likes. Pair the shortlist with hashtag runs to see whether a creator actually posts in your topic before you reach out.

Market and trend reporting. Schedule weekly runs for the same list of hashtags and compare average views and engagement from week to week. A rising average on a tag that was flat last month is an early signal worth reporting.

Fields most people use first

• webVideoUrl and id to link back to the video and deduplicate across runs.
• playCount, diggCount, commentCount, shareCount and engagementRate for performance ranking.
• createTimeISO for time series and recency filters.
• authorMeta for the creator's name, follower count and verified status.
• musicMeta and hashtags for trend and sound analysis.

More questions

How many videos can I expect per hashtag? TikTok serves logged-out visitors a ranked feed of a few hundred videos per tag, so a request for more simply ends where the feed ends. The log tells you when that happens.

Can I run it on a schedule without paying twice for the same video? Yes. Monitor mode returns only videos you have not received before, and each schedule should use its own monitorStoreName.

Is the data live? Counts are a snapshot taken when the page is read, so a video's views may be higher by the time you open the file. Run again later to build a time series.

What happens if a run stops early? Everything delivered before the stop stays in the dataset, and only delivered videos are charged.

Use it from AI assistants (MCP)

TikTok Hashtag & Search Scraper works as a tool for AI assistants through the official Apify MCP server. Add this URL to any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT connectors, VS Code):

https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=transparent_meteorite/tiktok-hashtag-search-scraper

Then ask, for example: "Find the 50 most viewed #airfryer videos from the last 30 days and list their creators."

Terms and responsible use

The actor reads only videos TikTok shows publicly to logged-out visitors. It does not return e-mail addresses from creators' bios. You are responsible for using the data lawfully (GDPR, CCPA, TikTok's terms). Do not use it for spam or harassment.

Changelog

• 0.2 (2026-10-14): sounds, places, profiles (videos and reposts), account search, place/subtitle/pin/sponsor/shop fields, MP4/cover/subtitle downloads, transcripts, lower Gold+ price.
• 0.1 (2026-10-13): first release. Hashtag feeds, keyword search, hashtag stats, filters, monitor mode.

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