The best TikTok scraping APIs of 2026

Data

Profiles, videos, comments, followers, search, transcripts, Shop, ads

Freshness

Live, optional free cache

Plans from

$47 for 25,000 credits

Free trial

100 free credits

Billing

Prepaid credits that never expire

SDKs

REST, MCP, CLI

ScrapeCreators is the TikTok API we’d start with. It’s the only single API here that returns all six data types we track: profiles, videos, comments, follower and following lists, search and transcripts. On top of that it has TikTok Shop products and reviews, the TikTok ad library, live status, trending feeds and an audience-country estimate.

Pricing is simple and fair. Credits come in one-off packs that never expire: $47 for 25,000 (about $1.88 per 1,000 calls) or $497 for 500,000 ($0.99). Most calls cost one credit, empty comment pages are free since October 2026, and cached results cost nothing. Know the exceptions: the audience endpoint costs 26 credits, and AI transcripts over two minutes cost 10 credits a minute if you opt in.

The risks are the ones that come with a small team. There’s no SOC 2 and no official SDK, only an MCP server and CLI, and its status page lists 36 past incidents across all platforms, most of them platform changes fixed within hours. It publishes all of that openly, along with a detailed changelog, which is more than most rivals do. If you’d rather pay monthly for steady daily volume, EnsembleData is the alternative.

Data

Profiles, posts, comments, followers, hashtag, keyword and music search

Freshness

Live

Plans from

$100 a month (Wood, 1,500 units a day)

Free trial

50 units a day, no card

Billing

Monthly plan, daily units

SDKs

Python, Node

EnsembleData is the strongest TikTok specialist in this list. TikTok is its deepest platform, with 20 endpoints for profiles, posts, comments, followers, liked posts, hashtag, keyword and music search, and live search. Paginated calls take a depth setting, so one request can fetch many pages, and some accept a cut-off date, which keeps incremental monitoring cheap.

Per item, it’s the cheapest serious option for posts and followers. 100 posts cost 11 units and followers cost 2 units per 100, which works out at about $0.24 per 1,000 posts and $0.04 per 1,000 followers on the $100 Wood plan. Profiles are one unit each: $2.22 per 1,000 on Wood, $0.93 on the $1,400 Platinum plan. Prices haven’t changed since at least January 2025.

The catch is the billing shape. You pay monthly for a daily allowance that resets at midnight UTC and doesn’t roll over, so spiky workloads waste money, and Wood caps you at 1,500 profiles a day. There are no transcripts. Trustpilot reviewers, several of them academic researchers, praise the support and TikTok coverage, though there are only 11 reviews. If your volume is uneven, ScrapeCreators’ never-expiring credits fit better.

Data

Profiles, videos, comments, search, sounds, transcripts

Freshness

Live, timestamped

Plans from

$1.80 per 1,000 live calls, pay as you go

Free trial

500 free credits ($5), no card

Billing

Pay as you go, billed in arrears

SDKs

REST, TypeScript, MCP server

Influship covers the TikTok data most products are built on, with 15 live endpoints: profiles, profile videos, single and batch video lookups, comments and replies, captions and transcripts, sounds, and user, video and hashtag search. Every call is a flat $0.0018, or $1.80 per 1,000, which at entry rates undercuts ScrapeCreators, EnsembleData and Apify.

It’s built for teams putting social data into production. Usage is invoiced after the fact, like the rest of your infrastructure, failed calls aren’t charged, and every response shows what it cost. The docs are unusually clear about errors and retries, there’s an MCP server and keyless x402 payments for AI agents, and whatever you spend, you get a direct line to its founders and solutions engineers. Early-stage companies can apply to its startup program.

It also generates a transcript when a video has no captions, at $0.025 for videos up to 10 minutes, which most rivals can’t. What it doesn’t sell is follower lists, trending feeds, live or TikTok Shop data. If you need those, ScrapeCreators and EnsembleData go further.

Data

Profiles, videos, comments, followers, search, transcripts (by Actor)

Freshness

Live, per run

Plans from

Free ($5 credit), then $19 a month

Free trial

$5 of usage a month

Billing

Per result, from monthly credit

SDKs

JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP

Apify isn’t one TikTok API but a marketplace of them. The one most people use is Clockworks’ TikTok Scraper, a third-party Actor with over 369,000 users, which covers profiles, videos, hashtags and search, with paid add-ons for comments, follower lists and transcripts. That makes Apify one of only two options here, with ScrapeCreators, that reaches all six data types.

You pay for that convenience. Clockworks charges $3.00 per 1,000 results on the $19 Starter plan, falling to $1.70 on the $999 Business plan, and run starts, filters and transcripts ($0.041 a minute on Starter) are billed on top. API Dojo’s TikTok Actor costs a flat $0.30 per 1,000, so the Actor you pick matters more than the platform.

Runs are jobs, not instant calls, which suits scheduled monitoring and no-code teams better than live lookups inside an app. Problems with an Actor go to its author, not to Apify. Trustpilot shows 4.8 from 817 reviews, but at least two recent ones disclose a reward from Apify, so we don’t read much into it.

Data

Profiles, posts, comments, Shop products, datasets

Freshness

Live, or monthly datasets

Plans from

$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go

Free trial

5,000 records a month

Billing

Per record

SDKs

Python, MCP

Bright Data is the safe corporate choice. It has six TikTok scrapers plus two for TikTok Shop, returns wide records (39 fields on a profile, 43 on a post, including engagement rate and commerce flags), and runs as instant calls or asynchronous jobs that deliver to a webhook or S3. It also beat Meta in court in 2024 and saw off X’s main claims before settling, which matters to legal teams.

For TikTok it’s thinner than the specialists. There are no follower lists, no hashtag scraper (you search by keyword or URL instead) and no transcripts, though posts carry subtitle links. You pay per record: $1.50 per 1,000 on pay as you go, or $1.30 on the $499 Scale plan. That’s fine for profiles but expensive for comments, which specialists sell by the page.

Pick it for bulk collection under a contract, or if you want pre-collected TikTok datasets (from $250 per 100,000 records). For a developer building a TikTok feature, ScrapeCreators or EnsembleData give you more for less. Its Trustpilot score is mostly about its proxies, and 2026 reviewers complain about an AI bot in front of support.

Data

Public profiles, posts, comments, followers, search; OAuth account data

Freshness

Live

Plans from

About $29 a month (reported)

Free trial

Free trial on some plans

Billing

Monthly subscription

SDKs

JavaScript, Python

TikAPI does something nobody else here does: OAuth. Your users connect their own TikTok account, and your app can read their feed, notifications, messages and creator analytics, and act for them: follow, like, comment and, on some plans, go live. If that’s what you’re building, it’s the only option on this list.

Its public endpoints are good too: profiles, posts, liked videos, comments, followers, hashtags, music, playlists, explore and search, with JavaScript and Python SDKs updated in July 2026. There are no transcripts, no Shop or ads data and no other platforms.

What holds it back is how hard it is to check. We couldn’t load its pricing page. Third parties report plans from $29 a month for 300 requests a day, which would be about $3.22 per 1,000 calls if you used every one. There’s no status page or public changelog, and while Trustpilot shows 4.3 from 62 reviews, 15% are 1-star, with complaints about outages and support. For public data alone, ScrapeCreators, EnsembleData or Influship are the better buy.

Data

Profiles, videos, comments, followers, search, live, Shop, ads

Freshness

Live

Plans from

$0.001 a request, $5 minimum top-up

Free trial

$0.05 free credit

Billing

Prepaid, per request; all sales final

SDKs

Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, C++

On paper TikHub would rank near the top. It has 164 documented TikTok endpoints, more than anyone here: profiles, videos, comments, followers, every kind of search, live rooms and gifts, Shop products, the ads library and creator search insights. It’s also among the cheapest, from $0.001 a request ($1.00 per 1,000), falling to $0.0005 after 30,000 requests in a day, with no subscription.

Three things keep it down. Its terms let it sell aggregated, de-identified data derived from what customers’ requests collect, unless you opt out by email. All sales are final, with refunds only at its discretion. And its status page was down when we checked on 29 October 2026. Older GitHub issues on its Python SDK add complaints about top-ups and payments not being credited.

The API itself is messy: parallel Web, App V2 and V3 versions of the same data at different prices, and per-endpoint prices of up to $0.01 that you only see after signing up. If you’re fine with the terms and test carefully, it’s a cheap way to get breadth. Most teams should start with ScrapeCreators or Influship.

Data

Profiles, posts, comments, followers, search

Freshness

On request, 1–5 minutes per task

Plans from

€300 a month (Basic, one network)

Free trial

14 days, on request

Billing

Monthly credits

SDKs

REST only

Data365 works differently from everything else here. You create a collection task, wait for it (one to five minutes, the vendor says), then read the result from Data365’s store. That suits social-listening teams running scheduled monitoring, and it has auto-update tasks for exactly that. For TikTok it covers profiles, posts, followers, comments, and hashtag, music, keyword and profile search.

It’s the wrong shape for most developers. The entry plan is €300 a month for one network, which is a lot for a TikTok-only buyer. Posts are cheap at about €0.60 per 1,000, but a profile costs 9 credits, about €5.40 per 1,000, several times what the live APIs charge. There are no SDKs, no transcripts and no public status page, and the 14-day trial goes through a contact form.

Reviews are few and uniformly positive: 4.4 from 12 on Trustpilot. If you need Instagram, TikTok and X monitoring under one contract, it’s worth a look. For TikTok alone, EnsembleData does the job with instant responses from $100 a month.

Data

Profiles, videos, comments, followers, hashtags, search, downloads

Freshness

Live

Plans from

$20 minimum deposit

Free trial

100 free requests

Billing

Prepaid, per request

SDKs

REST, MCP

LamaTok is a small, read-only TikTok API with 28 endpoints: profiles, followers and following, videos, liked videos, playlists, comments, hashtags, keyword search and download links. It’s run by the same team as HikerAPI, the Instagram API, and shares its pricing and billing rules.

At volume it’s cheap: $0.0006 a request once you’ve deposited $300, or $0.001 at $100. The entry is the problem. The $20 Start tier charges $0.02 a request, so $20 buys only 1,000 calls, and every tier bills 403 and 404 responses, so private and missing accounts cost you. Its own site advertises 91% uptime, and there’s no status page.

We’d skip it for most work. Its terms don’t name an operator, and the About page footer carries a Russian sole-proprietor registration without saying that entity runs the service. It says it calls TikTok through a managed pool of accounts, devices and proxies, which points to logged-in sessions. Trustpilot has withheld its sister HikerAPI’s rating over fake reviews, and LamaTok pays affiliates up to 50% lifetime commission, so read glowing third-party lists with care. ScrapeCreators ($0.99 per 1,000 at volume) and Influship ($1.80, billed after use) cost more per call and are the better buy.