TikTok scraper API for videos and hashtag search

TikTok signs its web requests and geo-redirects clients it does not recognise, so a plain HTTP GET returns a marketing About page instead of data. Reproducing the signing scheme is possible but it is a moving target that breaks on TikTok's release schedule rather than yours.

Fix: one call, 2 credits
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unified JSON, no proxies or parsers to keep alive

1What people try first

Approach	What happens
Plain HTTP GET	Returns the About page. No data at all.
Research API	Academic access only, with an application process.
Signature reimplementation	Works for a while. Then it doesn't, without warning.
Maintained API	Someone else absorbs the breakage. That is the whole product.

2The one-call fix

curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \
  "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/tiktok/profile/posts?handle=tiktok"

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Real response from that endpoint, captured 2026-08-27:

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "tiktok",
  "data": {
    "total": 10,
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "7678745502359342366",
        "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/7678745502359342366",
        "author": "tiktok",
        "created_at": "2026-08-27T16:14:46Z",
        "metrics": {
          "comments": 79,
          "likes": 612,
          "views": 11528,
          "shares": 8
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 3
}

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Verified against a live TikTok response on 2026-08-27. Platform terms and pricing change often. If something here has gone stale, tell us at support@socialsearchapi.com.

TikTok scraper API for videos and hashtag search

1What people try first

2The one-call fix

3Related