How to Scrape TikTok Data in 2026: Profiles, Videos, Comments

TikTok is where a lot of the internet's attention sits in 2026, and it is also one of the harder platforms to get data out of. This guide shows how to pull public TikTok data (profiles, videos, comments, hashtags, sounds and transcripts) with plain HTTPS calls, with working code in cURL, JavaScript and Python.

Why TikTok data is hard to get

Three things make TikTok different from a normal website:

• No public data API. TikTok's official APIs are either for approved academic research or for data a user grants your app on their own account. There is no endpoint that returns any creator's public videos for a commercial product.
• The web app is built against scrapers. Pages render client-side, request signatures change, and datacenter IPs get challenged. A scraper that works today often breaks next week.
• The data is awkwardly shaped. Counts come back as strings in one place and numbers in another, and video, author and music data are nested differently on every endpoint.

You can maintain a headless browser fleet with residential proxies, or you can call an API that already does it. The rest of this guide takes the second route.

What you can get from TikTok

Every call below is live on crawlfeed today. The table is generated from the API's own catalogue, so the endpoints and prices are exactly what you will be charged:

Everything comes back in crawlfeed's unified types (Profile, Post, Comment and friends), which are the same across all 26 platforms.

Get a TikTok profile

Start with a profile. You need an API key (new accounts get 100 free credits) and a handle, without the @:

curl -G https://api.crawlfeed.dev/v1/tiktok/profile \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLFEED_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "handle=charlidamelio"

The response is a Profile wrapped in the standard envelope. Trimmed, and with illustrative numbers, it looks like this:

{
  "data": {
    "platform": "tiktok",
    "handle": "charlidamelio",
    "display_name": "charli d’amelio",
    "verified": true,
    "followers": 155000000,
    "following": 1300,
    "posts_count": 2800,
    "bio": "…",
    "links": ["…"]
  },
  "meta": { "credits_used": 1, "credits_remaining": 99, "cache": "MISS", "data_age_s": 0 }
}

A profile costs 1 credit. Counts are numbers, never strings, and a field TikTok does not expose comes back as null rather than disappearing.

Get a creator's videos

/v1/tiktok/posts returns a creator's recent videos, newest first, one page per call:

curl -G https://api.crawlfeed.dev/v1/tiktok/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLFEED_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "handle=charlidamelio"

Each item is a Post with text, created_at, media (the video URL, thumbnail and duration), engagement (likes, comments, shares, views, saves), hashtags, mentions and is_ad.

To get the next page, pass meta.next_cursor back as cursor. When next_cursor is missing, you have reached the end. Every page is billed, so stop as soon as you have what you need:

let cursor;
const videos = [];
do {
  const params = new URLSearchParams({ handle: 'charlidamelio', ...(cursor ? { cursor } : {}) });
  const res = await fetch(`https://api.crawlfeed.dev/v1/tiktok/posts?${params}`, {
    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CRAWLFEED_KEY}` },
  });
  const { data, meta } = await res.json();
  videos.push(...data);
  cursor = meta.next_cursor;
} while (cursor && videos.length < 100);

Get comments on a video

Pass the video id as post_id:

curl -G https://api.crawlfeed.dev/v1/tiktok/comments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLFEED_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "post_id=<post_id>"

Each Comment has the text, the author, likes, created_at and reply_to_id. For the replies under one comment, use /v1/tiktok/replies with the post_id and comment_id.

Search, hashtags and sounds

Three ways to discover content rather than read a known account:

• Keyword search: /v1/tiktok/search/posts?q=… for videos, /v1/tiktok/search/profiles?q=… for creators.
• Hashtags: /v1/tiktok/hashtag?tag=… returns videos using a hashtag.
• Sounds: /v1/tiktok/track?id=… describes a sound, and /v1/tiktok/track/posts?id=… lists the videos that use it.

curl -G https://api.crawlfeed.dev/v1/tiktok/hashtag \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLFEED_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "tag=coffee"

Get a TikTok video transcript

For research, summaries or feeding videos to an LLM, the transcript is usually what you want:

curl -G https://api.crawlfeed.dev/v1/tiktok/transcript \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLFEED_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "id=<id>"

A transcript costs 10 credits because it costs more to produce upstream. When timings are available, each segment carries its start and end.

Handle errors and rate limits

Errors are RFC 9457 problem details with a stable code, so branch on the code, not the message:

A call that fails is refunded automatically, so retrying never charges you twice.

Add Arabic sentiment and dialect

If your audience writes in Arabic, add enrich=arabic to a profile, video or comments call. Each item gains an enrichment field with the dialect (Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, Maghrebi or MSA), sentiment, entities and topics, for 3 extra credits per call.

Use TikTok data from Claude or Cursor

If you would rather ask than code, connect the crawlfeed MCP server and your assistant gets the same calls as tools:

claude mcp add --transport http crawlfeed https://mcp.crawlfeed.dev/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $CRAWLFEED_KEY"

Then ask something like “what did @charlidamelio post this week, and which video got the most comments?”. The setup for every client is in our guide to MCP.

Wrapping up

For public TikTok data, a scraping API saves you from maintaining browsers, proxies and parsers that break every few weeks. With crawlfeed, most calls cost one credit, and the same code works for Instagram, YouTube and X. The full reference is at /docs/platforms/tiktok.