Tiktok User Profile API

Tiktok User Profile API

by novi

Need fresh, reliable TikTok user data without the headache of scraping? This API delivers exactly that. It pulls live profile information directly fro...

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About Tiktok User Profile API

Need fresh, reliable TikTok user data without the headache of scraping? This API delivers exactly that. It pulls live profile information directly from TikTok, so you're working with real-time data, not some stale database that's weeks out of date. I use it for two main things: enriching lead lists with social data and keeping tabs on influencer profiles for market research. The speed is the real win here—you get a structured JSON response with details like bio, follower counts, and verification status almost instantly. It saves you from building and maintaining your own fragile scraper, which is a massive time sink. Whether you're building a social listening dashboard, verifying user profiles for an app, or analyzing competitor audience growth, this tool just works. You feed it a TikTok username, and it gives you clean, accurate data. No blocks, no rate limiting issues, and no data that's suspiciously old. It's become a straightforward, reliable part of my workflow for any project that needs up-to-date TikTok intel.

What does this actor do?

Tiktok User Profile API is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.

Key Features

  • Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
  • Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
  • API access for integration with your applications
  • Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
  • Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation

How to Use

  1. Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
  2. Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
  3. Configure the input parameters as needed
  4. Run the actor and download your results

Documentation

TikTok User Info API This scraper provides information about a TikTok user including details: name, nickname, ID, bio, followers/following numbers, play, share and comment count, etc. Since TikTok doesn't provide a good and free API, this actor should help you to retrieve data from it as an Unofficial API. The TikTok User Information Data scraper supports the following features: - User details - Retrieve all user-related information. #### If you want to get specific data from TikTok You can use the scrapers below. Each scraper is made to help you get different kinds of TikTok data, like hashtags, search results, profiles, or everything at once. You can look at them to see which one you need. | 🎹️ Fast TikTok API | 📹️ TikTok Trend API | 🔍️ TikTok Search API | |:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 🧛️ TikTok User API | 🧛️ TikTok User Info API | #️ TikTok Hashtag API | | 🛍️ TikTok Shop API | 👤️ TikTok Followers API | ⚡️ TikTok Scraper (pay-per-result) | | 💬 TikTok Comment API | 🎶 TikTok Music API | 🎶 TikTok Music Trend API | | 🐦 Twitter - X.com Scraper | 👤️ TikTok Profile Video Scraper | | | | 🎶 Tiktok Scraper Ultimate (pay-per-event) | | | ## Bugs, fixes, updates and changelog This scraper is under active development. If you have any feature requests you can create an issue from here. ## Input Parameters The input of this scraper should be JSON containing the list of pages on TikTok User Info API that should be visited. Required fields are: | FIELD | Type | | Description | | | |----------------------------------|--------------|:----|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|-----| | usernames | List | | Username list of User to scrap. use when you don't want to use full URL. Use either username or url. Name has higher priority. | | | | userIds | List | | User ID list, get from other TikTok API. | | | | urls | List | | User URL list from TikTok. Ex: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickiminai | | | | username (default: nickiminai) | String | | Username of User to scrap. use when you don't want to use full URL. Use either username or url. Name has higher priority. | | | | userId | String | | User ID, get from other TikTok API. | | | | url | String | | User URL from TikTok. Ex: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickiminai | | | ## Compute Unit Consumption The actor optimized to run blazing fast and scrape many as listings as possible. Therefore, it forefronts all listing detail requests. If actor doesn't block very often it'll scrape 100 listings in 30 seconds with ~0.03-0.07 compute units. ## How to Scrape TikTok User Data ### 1. Scrape User Data using usernames Scrape By Username json { "usernames": [ "breannashiveley", "nickiminai" ] } ### 2. Scrape User Data using user's IDs Scrape By User's ID json { "userIds": [ "208464585232822272" ] } ### 3. Scrape User Data using URLs to profile Scrape By URL json { "urls": [ "https://www.tiktok.com/@nickiminai" ] } ## During the Run During the run, the actor will output messages letting you know what is going on. Each message always contains a short label specifying which page from the provided list is currently specified. When items are loaded from the page, you should see a message about this event with a loaded item count and total item count for each page. If you provide incorrect input to the actor, it will immediately stop with failure state and output an explanation of what is wrong. ## TikTok User Information API Export During the run, the actor stores results into a dataset. Each item is a separate item in the dataset. You can manage the results in any language (Python, PHP, Node JS/NPM). See the FAQ or our API references to learn more about getting results from this TikTok User Info API actor. ### User Information In JSON format. json { "uid": "208464585232822272", "unique_id": "nike", "nickname": "Nike", "bio_url": "https://linkin.bio/nike", "total_favorited": 18443294, "twitter_id": "", "twitter_name": "", "account_type": 3, "ad_virtual": false, "advance_feature_item_order": [ 20 ], "apple_account": 0, "avatar_168x168": { "uri": "tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c", "url_list": [ "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_168x168.webp?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=iO8Z1uKpRG5jynA%2BAw6ND6SztR8%3D", "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_168x168.jpeg?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=H259CrWXtp3plTsl7lZaQoXxAlA%3D" ], "url_prefix": null }, "avatar_300x300": { "uri": "tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c", "url_list": [ "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_300x300.webp?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=iIBpadLQcRPvfauyfLZGDd4miBA%3D", "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_300x300.jpeg?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=4jE9MYyxQqrMAoONVnjT8S6tenw%3D" ], "url_prefix": null }, "avatar_larger": { "uri": "tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c", "url_list": [ "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_1080x1080.webp?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=rbAuiQKYSjzHCrJ8DDYuZ2xie%2BM%3D", "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_1080x1080.jpeg?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=%2BOXf0mltFENXz9mWAq%2BnYFKi%2FSY%3D" ], "url_prefix": null }, "avatar_medium": { "uri": "tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c", "url_list": [ "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_720x720.webp?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=GPjdachqxaJQ5n%2Fvp0CWvNlQlZw%3D", "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_720x720.jpeg?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=PDiBDkKfHRlHfpayHuZuJsd3BTg%3D" ], "url_prefix": null }, "avatar_thumb": { "uri": "tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c", "url_list": [ "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_100x100.webp?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=ERmi0FWi6rbmcIi0mfTVLBVmGRc%3D", "https://p16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/908fe11a62bf22cd36dbea27296d670c~c5_100x100.jpeg?x-expires=1699977600&x-signature=ocQkV7q0ydjHek3b2seZhAjNTdA%3D" ], "url_prefix": null }, "aweme_count": 780, "bio_secure_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/link/?aid=1233&lang=en&scene=bio_url&target=https%3A%2F%2Flinkin.bio%2Fnike&owner_suid=MS4wLjABAAAA_3ndMt8d_tECTdpKgCxcx238tOnQZX-20wqN01aMui5zQ7hsqSdff-jC5qYC-Cl_", "biz_account_info": { "added_contact_and_link_list": null, "coupon_list": null, "leads_gen": { "action_name": "", "business_data": "", "has_leads_gen": false, "page_id": 0, "schema_url": "" }, "permission_list": [ "001001", "001002", "001003", "001004", "001005", "002001", "002002", "002005", "004001", "004006", "004009", "004012", "006001", "007001", "007003", "007004", "007005", "008001", "010001", "010002", "010003", "015001", "015002", "015003", "018003", "020001", "021001", "018001" ] }, "can_message_follow_status_list": [ 0, 1, 2, 4 ], "category": "Sports, Fitness & Outdoors", "commerce_user_info": { "ad_revenue_rits": null }, "commerce_user_level": 0, "custom_verify": "", "display_qna_on_profile": 1, "enterprise_verify_reason": "Verified account", "favoriting_count": 0, "follow_status": 0, "follower_count": 5020466, "follower_status": 0, "following_count": 180, "forward_count": 0, "ins_id": "nike", "is_block": false, "is_blocked": false, "is_effect_artist": false, "is_star": false, "live_commerce": false, "live_push_notification_status": 2, "message_chat_entry": true, "mplatform_followers_count": 0, "music_tab_info": { "show_artist_pick_videos": false }, "original_musician": { "digg_count": 0, "music_count": 0, "music_used_count": 0, "new_release_clip_ids": null }, "privacy_setting": { "following_visibility": 2 }, "profile_tab_type": 0, "recommend_reason_relation": "", "room_id": 0, "sec_uid": "MS4wLjABAAAA_3ndMt8d_tECTdpKgCxcx238tOnQZX-20wqN01aMui5zQ7hsqSdff-jC5qYC-Cl_", "secret": 0, "share_info": { "bool_persist": 1, "now_invitation_card_image_urls": null, "share_desc": "Check out Nike! #TikTok", "share_desc_info": "TikTok: Make Every Second Count", "share_image_url": { "uri": "tos-useast5-p-0068-tx/105776f7806b459cb32f294ebd046503_1699287598", "url_list": [ "https://p16-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tos-useast5-p-0068-tx/105776f7806b459cb32f294ebd046503_1699287598?x-expires=1699826400&x-signature=20%2FtSclpyuGPlE1pLbsOh3Xc4h8%3D", "https://p19-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/obj/tos-useast5-p-0068-tx/105776f7806b459cb32f294ebd046503_1699287598?x-expires=1699826400&x-signature=ew%2F%2BslI6sHcrLICt8iUolIVj%2BmU%3D" ], "url_prefix": null }, "share_title": "Join TikTok and see what I’ve been up to!", "share_title_myself": "", "share_title_other": "", "share_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nike?_r=1&_d=e9cbalc6a27625&sec_uid=MS4wLjABAAAA_3ndMt8d_tECTdpKgCxcx238tOnQZX-20wqN01aMui5zQ7hsqSdff-jC5qYC-Cl_&share_author_id=208464585232822272&sharer_language=en&source=h5_m&u_code=e9cbcf4gk687hf" }, "short_id": "0", "show_effect_list": true, "show_favorite_list": false, "signature": "", "signature_language": "un", "story_status": 0, "supporting_ngo": {}, "tab_settings": { "private_tab": { "private_tab_style": 1, "show_private_tab": false } }, "verification_type": 0, "video_icon": { "uri": "", "url_list": [], "url_prefix": null }, "watch_status": false, "with_commerce_enterprise_tab_entry": false, "with_commerce_entry": false, "with_new_goods": false, "youtube_channel_id": "", "youtube_channel_title": "" } ## Ethical Use and Data Practices Our TikTok Scraper operates without logging in to TikTok. This means it doesn't implicitly accept any of TikTok's Terms of Service (ToS) that require a login, as we only process data that's publicly displayed and accessible to everyone without authentication. We're fully committed to the principle of privacy by design and by default. All data collected explicitly excludes sensitive personal information or non-public data. Furthermore, our scraper runs on Apify, an EU-based company, which means our operations are designed to be * compliant with relevant EU data protection regulations, including GDPR, where applicable. You can find more information about the legality of web scraping on Apify's blog: https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/ We've implemented robust technical measures to ensure the scraper operates gently and doesn't impose an undue burden on TikTok's servers. Our sole purpose is to facilitate * responsible research and public data analysis**, and we strictly prohibit any use that could cause harm to any party or the platform itself. --- ## Scrape any TikTok data you need with dedicated scrapers If you want to get specific data from TikTok, you can use the scrapers below. Each scraper is made to help you get different kinds of TikTok data, like hashtags, search results, profiles, or everything at once. You can look at them to see which one you need. | 🎹️ Fast TikTok API | 📹️ TikTok Trend API | 🔍️ TikTok Search API | |:-------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 🧛️ TikTok User API | 🧛️ TikTok User Info API | #️ TikTok Hashtag API | | 🛍️ TikTok Shop API | 👤️ TikTok Followers API | ⚡️ TikTok Scraper (pay-per-result) | | 💬 TikTok Comment API | 🎶 TikTok Music API | 🎶 TikTok Music Trend API | | 🐦 Twitter - X.com Scraper | 🎶 Tiktok Scraper Ultimate (pay-per-event) | |

Common Use Cases

Market Research

Gather competitive intelligence and market data

Lead Generation

Extract contact information for sales outreach

Price Monitoring

Track competitor pricing and product changes

Content Aggregation

Collect and organize content from multiple sources

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