TikTok Search Scraper: Keywords, Hashtags, Creators
Pricing
from $0.20 / 1,000 tiktok posts
Scrape TikTok search results by keyword or hashtag and discover creators. Pay only per result. Views, likes, comments, shares, bookmarks, channel stats, music, subtitles and direct video URLs as JSON. Output compatible with popular TikTok scrapers. No proxies or login needed. Works via API and MCP.
Search terms, typed as you would in the TikTok search bar (e.g. ai tools, skincare routine). Each keyword is searched separately (about 200–420 videos per keyword) and all results land in one dataset.
Tip: batch many keywords in a single run for the best cost efficiency.
Maximum total number of videos on output, across all keywords and expansion pools. Leave empty for 1,000. On the free Apify plan a run is capped at 100.
Sort order for search results. Sorting is applied client-side after fetching — TikTok ignores server-side sort parameters.
Creator discovery: emit at most one video per creator (channel.id), so every item is a different creator. Combine with expansion to find about 10x more creators per keyword.
Opt-in harvest pools that multiply the number of new creators per keyword ~10x. On top of the classic keyword search, the Actor harvests TikTok's search suggestions, hashtag feeds and sound feeds — all seeded from the keyword's own search results, and every item still carries the original keyword.
Leave empty for classic keyword search only. Available on paid Apify plans; free-plan runs use classic search only.
[]Topicality gate for the sound/music pool: the fraction of a sound's first page of captions that must match the seed keyword or its hashtags before that sound is crawled in depth. Higher = stricter, fewer sounds. Used only when the music pool is on.
Paid add-on: attach up to this many replies to each comment in commentList (as replies). Each reply is charged as one comment event. Used only when commentsPerPost is above 0. 0 = no replies.
Paid add-on: attach the creator's profile page details as authorProfile (bio, bio link, account creation time, language, friends, business and seller flags, live status). Fetched and charged once per unique creator per run as one author-profile event, see Pricing; later videos of the same creator carry it free.
Optional cap of results per single keyword. Keywords are processed sequentially against the global maxItems budget.
Cap on items per creator in the classic search (relevance) results — the expansion pools always emit at most one item per creator regardless of this value (leave empty for no cap).
If enabled, each result includes the keyword and inputSource fields with the search keyword that found it.
Cosmetic. Passed to TikTok as the region parameter (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, e.g. US), but TikTok picks results by the request's IP address, so this does not return per-country results.
Leave empty — proxies are built in and included in the price. To route through your own proxies, enter their URLs here; the Apify Proxy option is not used on paid plans. Free-plan runs use Apify Proxy unless you enter your own URLs.
{ "useApifyProxy": false}
Comments per video
commentsPerPost
Optional
Paid add-on: attach up to this many top comments to each video as
commentList. Each comment (and each reply) returned is charged as onecommentevent, see Pricing. 0 = off. Paid Apify plans only.