TikTok Profile Scraper: followers, latest posts, bio links and emails

Price per 1,000 results	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
This Actor	$2.50	$2.00	$1.60	$0.48
Most-used alternative	$3.70	$3.00	$2.30	$1.70

Turn any public TikTok account into clean rows: followers, following, total likes, video count, verified badge, bio, link in bio, emails and links written in the bio, business category and account creation date, plus the latest posts with views, likes, comments, shares, saves, post date, hashtags, mentions, music, duration and engagement rate. Paste usernames, profile URLs or video URLs. Public pages only. No login, no cookies.

• In short: TikTok Profile Scraper (Apify actor transparent_meteorite/tiktok-public-profile-scraper) reads public TikTok profiles, their latest posts and single video URLs, and returns one row per post (author data included) or one row per profile.
• Who it is for: influencer marketers, agencies, brands vetting creators, social media analysts, lead generation (bio emails and links), researchers.
• Input: usernames or profile URLs; video URLs (short links too); output type (posts, profiles, both); latest posts per profile (up to about 10-13, TikTok's public limit); full post stats on/off; date and minimum-views filters; skip pinned; max rows; monitor mode; proxy.
• Output: post rows with 25+ fields and nested author data, or profile rows with 30+ fields including average and median views, engagement rate and posting frequency. JSON, CSV or Excel.
• Pricing: pay per event. Per row delivered: $0.0025 free plan, $0.002 Bronze, $0.0016 Silver, $0.00048 Gold, Platinum and Diamond. Plus a start event of $0.00005 per GB of run memory.
• Limits: TikTok's logged-out view exposes about the latest 10-13 posts per profile. Hashtag feeds are not read (they need a signed-in session).

Paste a username, press Start, get the profile and its latest posts as a table in about 10 seconds.

Run in 30 seconds

1. Open the actor in Apify Console (a free Apify account is enough).
2. Press Start with the prefilled input: the 10 latest posts of @natgeo and @nba with full stats, 20 rows, about $0.05 on the free plan.
3. Open the Output tab: the Posts view is a table, the Profiles view lists the accounts. Download as CSV, Excel or JSON.

{
  "profiles": ["natgeo", "nba"],
  "resultsPerPage": 10,
  "resultsType": "posts",
  "includeVideoDetails": true
}

An empty input {} also works: it reads @natgeo as an example.

Why choose this over alternatives

	This actor	Typical TikTok profile scrapers
Price per row (free plan)	$0.0025	$0.003 or more
Price per row (Gold, Platinum, Diamond)	$0.00048	$0.0017 / $0.001 / $0.0005
Date range + likes filters together	Yes (oldestPostDate + newestPostDate + leastDiggs/mostDiggs + minPlayCount)	Often one at a time
Emails and links found in the bio	Yes (bioEmails, bioUrls)	Usually no
Link in bio as a full URL	Yes	Sometimes
Engagement rate per post	Yes	Usually no
Profile summary (avg + median views, engagement, posts per week)	Yes	No
Pinned post detection	Yes	Some
Monitor mode (only new posts, follower change)	Yes	No
Unknown accounts, failed pages, filtered rows	Not charged	Varies
Login or cookies needed	No	No

What it does and who it is for

• Influencer vetting: follower count, real reach (median views of recent posts, not just followers), engagement rate and posting frequency in one row per creator.
• Lead generation: many creator and business bios carry a contact email or a link-in-bio page. The actor pulls them into bioEmails, bioUrls and bioLink.
• Competitor tracking: schedule monitor mode daily on competitor accounts and get only their new posts, with follower change since the last run.
• Content research: captions, hashtags, music, duration and performance of the latest posts.
• Single videos: paste video URLs to get stats and author data for each.

What you get: output fields

Post rows (type: "post"):

Field	Meaning
id, webVideoUrl	Video ID and public URL
text	Caption
createTime, createTimeISO	When it was posted
playCount, diggCount, commentCount, shareCount, collectCount	Views, likes, comments, shares, saves
engagementRate	(likes + comments + shares) / views, percent
hashtags, mentions	From the caption
likelyPinned	Post looks pinned (older than the posts after it)
isAd, isSlideshow, isAiGenerated, textLanguage, locationCreated	Flags TikTok publishes
videoMeta	duration, height, width, definition, format, coverUrl, subtitle languages
musicMeta	musicId, musicName, musicAuthor, musicOriginal, musicAlbum
authorMeta	The full author profile (see below)
detailsLoaded, input, scrapedAt	Row provenance

Profile rows (type: "profile", or nested as authorMeta):

Field	Meaning
username / name, nickName, id, secUid, profileUrl	Identity
fans, following, heart, video, digg, friends	Followers, following, total likes, videos, liked videos, friends
verified, privateAccount, isOrganization, ttSeller, commerceCategory	Account flags and business category
signature	Bio text
bioLink	Link in bio as a full URL
bioEmails, bioUrls	Emails and other links written in the bio
avatar, accountCreateTimeISO, language	Avatar URL, account creation date, language
avgPlaysLatest, medianPlaysLatest, avgEngagementRateLatest	Performance of the latest posts read
lastPostTimeISO, postsPerWeekLatest	Activity
latestPosts	id, url, caption, views and date of each latest post
fansChange, heartChange, fansLastRun, lastRunAt	Monitor mode only

Sample output

A post row (real data, read 2026-10-13, nested objects shortened):

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "7696278835628870926",
  "text": "For several weeks each fall and winter, schools of migrating mullet can be seen along Flor...",
  "webVideoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@natgeo/video/7696278835628870926",
  "createTimeISO": "2026-10-13T22:12:45.000Z",
  "playCount": 4848,
  "diggCount": 347,
  "commentCount": 11,
  "shareCount": 2,
  "collectCount": 9,
  "engagementRate": 7.43,
  "likelyPinned": false,
  "videoMeta": { "duration": 35, "height": 1024, "width": 576, "definition": "540p" },
  "musicMeta": { "musicName": "original sound", "musicAuthor": "National Geographic", "musicOriginal": true },
  "authorMeta": { "name": "natgeo", "nickName": "National Geographic", "verified": true, "fans": 9674690, "heart": 55485674, "video": 1535, "bioLink": "https://spr.ly/natgeotiktok", "bioEmails": [] },
  "detailsLoaded": true,
  "input": "natgeo"
}

A profile row (shortened):

{
  "type": "profile",
  "username": "natgeo",
  "nickName": "National Geographic",
  "verified": true,
  "fans": 9674690,
  "following": 62,
  "heart": 55485674,
  "video": 1535,
  "bioLink": "https://spr.ly/natgeotiktok",
  "commerceCategory": "Shopping & Retail",
  "accountCreateTimeISO": "2020-01-10T16:08:37.000Z",
  "avgPlaysLatest": 43690,
  "medianPlaysLatest": 18400,
  "avgEngagementRateLatest": 9.33,
  "lastPostTimeISO": "2026-10-13T22:12:45.000Z"
}

Input options

Option	Default	What it does
profiles	["natgeo"]	Usernames (with or without @) or profile URLs. Video URLs pasted here also work.
postURLs	none	Video or photo post URLs, including vm.tiktok.com short links
resultsType	posts	posts (one row per video), profiles (one row per account) or both
resultsPerPage	10	Latest posts per profile, 0 to 30 (TikTok's public view shows about 10-13)
includeVideoDetails	true	Full stats per post (likes, comments, shares, saves, date, music, hashtags). Off: caption, views and cover only, faster
oldestPostDate	none	2026-10-01, 7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months
newestPostDate	none	Drop posts after this date; with oldestPostDate gives an exact from-to window
minPlayCount	none	Skip posts with fewer views
leastDiggs / mostDiggs	none	Minimum / maximum likes (same names and meaning as the most-used TikTok actor). All filters combine
profileSorting	latest	latest, popular (most played) or oldest
excludePinnedPosts	false	Skip pinned posts
maxItems	1000	Hard cap on rows for the run
monitorMode	false	Only new posts since the last run; follower change on profile rows
monitorStoreName	tiktok-profile-monitor	One name per watch list
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy	Residential fallback is automatic

Pricing

Pay per event. No subscription, no rental fee.

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Result row (one post or one profile delivered)	$0.0025	$0.002	$0.0016	$0.00048	$0.00048	$0.00048
Actor start (per GB of run memory, minimum one)	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005

Rows	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
100 (10 creators x 10 posts)	$0.25	$0.20	$0.16	$0.048
1,000	$2.50	$2.00	$1.60	$0.48
10,000	$25	$20	$16	$4.80

Not charged: accounts that do not exist, pages that stay blocked after retries, rows removed by a filter, and posts already delivered in monitor mode. Full post stats cost the same as basic rows. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, about 2,000 rows here.

How to run it

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

Reliability and blocking

The actor reads three public sources: the profile page, TikTok's official creator embed (the widget websites use to show a creator's latest videos), and each public video page. Every request is retried on a fresh session, and after repeated blocks it switches to residential IPs by itself. If the profile page cannot be read, the creator embed still supplies followers, likes and bio. The run summary (OUTPUT record) lists requests, retries, failures and warnings.

Limits and honest caveats

• Latest posts only. TikTok shows logged-out visitors about the latest 10-13 posts of a profile. Full post history needs a signed-in session, which this actor does not use. For older videos, paste their URLs.
• No hashtag or keyword feeds. TikTok only serves those to signed-in sessions or cryptographically signed app requests. A hashtags input is accepted but ignored with a clear log message.
• Private accounts return the profile row (counts, bio) but no posts.
• likelyPinned is inferred from post dates, because the public pages do not flag pins.
• TikTok rounds some counters on the creator embed (for example 9.7M). With full post stats on, exact numbers from the video page are used.
• Each row is a snapshot at scrapedAt.

Worked examples

Vet five creators for a campaign: one summary row each

{
  "profiles": ["natgeo", "nba", "nasa", "redbull", "gordonramsay"],
  "resultsType": "profiles",
  "resultsPerPage": 10,
  "includeVideoDetails": true
}

Profile rows carry avgPlaysLatest, medianPlaysLatest, avgEngagementRateLatest and postsPerWeekLatest. Sort the table by median views to see real reach rather than follower count.

Find recent breakout posts: a date window plus a likes ceiling

{
  "profiles": ["natgeo"],
  "resultsType": "posts",
  "resultsPerPage": 30,
  "oldestPostDate": "30 days",
  "mostDiggs": 50000,
  "profileSorting": "popular",
  "excludePinnedPosts": true
}

All filters combine. Posts removed by a filter are not delivered and not charged.

Watch competitors every morning: monitor mode

{
  "profiles": ["nba", "nfl"],
  "resultsType": "both",
  "monitorMode": true,
  "monitorStoreName": "sports-watch-list"
}

The first run delivers the current latest posts and remembers them. Later runs return only posts not seen before, and the profile rows carry fansChange since the previous run. Use one store name per watch list.

Tips to reduce cost and runtime

• Set resultsPerPage to 0 when only profile data is needed: no posts are opened.
• Switch includeVideoDetails off for a quick look at captions and views. It is faster, but likes, comments, shares, saves, dates and music are then not filled.
• Use maxItems as a hard budget for the run. With monitor mode on, repeated runs on the same list cost nothing for posts already delivered.
• Keep one watch list per store name, so a small list is not slowed down by a large one.
• Paste video URLs into postURLs instead of raising resultsPerPage when only a few specific older videos are needed.

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Use from AI agents: every actor here is callable through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com).

FAQ

Do I need a TikTok account or cookies? No. Only public pages are read.

How many posts per profile? Up to about 10-13, TikTok's public limit. Set resultsPerPage lower to save money.

Can I get emails? If the creator wrote an email in the bio, it is in bioEmails. The link in bio is in bioLink. Nothing hidden is accessed.

What is engagement rate? (likes + comments + shares) / views, in percent, per post; profile rows average it over the latest posts.

How do I track a creator? Turn on monitor mode and schedule the actor daily. You get only new posts, and profile rows carry fansChange since the last run.

Does it download videos? No. It returns cover image URLs and metadata only.

Terms and responsible use

The actor reads only data TikTok shows publicly to logged-out visitors. You are responsible for using it lawfully (GDPR, CCPA, TikTok's terms) and for how you store and use personal data such as bio emails. Do not use it for spam or harassment.

Use it from AI assistants (MCP)

TikTok Profile 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-public-profile-scraper

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=transparent_meteorite/tiktok-public-profile-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Then ask, for example: "Get the latest 10 posts of @natgeo and tell me which got the best engagement."

Changelog

• 0.1.2 (2026-10-13): from-to date window (newestPostDate), min/max likes, post sorting; all filters combine. Gold+ price $0.00048 per row.
• 0.1 (2026-10-13): first release. Profiles, latest posts, video URLs, bio emails and links, engagement, monitor mode.

Support

Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the run URL. We reply there.