TikTok Search Scraper API
Search TikTok by keyword or phrase and get back matching videos with full metadata, author info, engagement stats, and video URLs. Sort by relevance, likes, or date.
- Search by keyword or phrase
- Sort by relevance, likes or date
- Filter by when videos were posted
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See It in Action
Getting started is simple and takes just minutes. Explore the interactive examples below to see exactly how the API works before using it in your own workflow.
Pick a query
Any keyword or phrase works the same way.
Send the request
Pick the format you'd use in your own stack, then hit Execute.
curl -X GET "https://api.socialkit.dev/tiktok/search?access_key=%7B%7Byour_access_key%7D%7D&query=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dfunny%2Bcats"
Get the response
Clean JSON with a results array, each with author, stats, and video info, plus a pagination cursor.
Hit Execute above to send the request and see the captured response.
Everything You Need From a TikTok Search API
Search TikTok programmatically and collect structured video data with a single API request.
Keyword and Phrase Search
Find videos by any keyword, hashtag, or phrase. Pass a query string and get back matching videos with full metadata.
Sort Options
Order results by relevance, most liked, or newest first. Pick the ranking that fits your use case without any post-processing.
Date Filters
Narrow to the past day, week, month, 3 months, or 6 months. Leave it off to search across all time.
Full Video Metadata
Caption, create time, language, and direct video URL for every result. Everything you need in a single response object.
Author and Stats
Creator info plus views, likes, comments, shares, and saves per video. All the engagement signals in one structured object.
Cursor Pagination
Page through large result sets using the hasMore flag and cursor value returned in each response.
Structured JSON Output
Clean, developer-friendly JSON with no parsing, no brittle selectors, and no scraper stack to maintain.
No Browser Automation Required
No headless browsers or scraper stack to maintain. One REST request returns structured data every time.
What developers say
Teams shipping with SocialKit in production.
"It was very easy to set up and get going, and support was superb."
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What Teams Are Building With TikTok Search Data
From content discovery to campaign research, search lets you find exactly the videos that matter and pull their data at scale.
Content Discovery
Find trending videos by topic, keyword, or hashtag to keep your content strategy ahead of what's already performing.
Market Research
Analyze content trends and popular themes in a niche to understand what audiences are responding to right now.
Competitor Analysis
Monitor competitor content and engagement across the platform to see what topics and formats are gaining traction.
Influencer Research
Discover creators producing content in specific niches by searching the topics your brand cares about.
Trend Analysis
Track viral content and emerging trends as they take off by filtering results to the past day or week.
Campaign Research
Find successful content strategies to inform your own campaigns by surfacing the highest-performing videos for any keyword.
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- 20Credits
- Perfect for testing
- 40 requests / minute
- Includes All APIs
- YouTube APIs
- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
- Facebook APIs
- Video File APIs
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- 4,000Credits
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- 80 requests / minute
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- TikTok APIs
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- 12,000Credits
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- 120 requests / minute
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- TikTok APIs
- Instagram APIs
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