General TikTok search (returns videos) · TikTok API
Returns TikTok videos for the keyword `q`. Use type-specific endpoints when needed.
Using ChatGPT, Claude Code or another client? See the setup steps
curl https://api.unifapi.com/tiktok/search?q= \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- cursorquery
- limitquery
- Integer from 1 to 50. Defaults to 20.
- qqueryrequired
- Search keyword
This operation is part of the TikTok API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs TikTok public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Search TikTok for public mentions, creators, posts, or topics matching a user query.
- Feed ranked TikTok results into research, monitoring, and enrichment workflows.
- Give an AI agent a stable TikTok data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize TikTok responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The `billing.records_charged` field reports the charged billable-record quantity for the successful response.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 1 credit ($0.001) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields on each record in data
A successful General TikTok search (returns videos) call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields (12 of 20 shown — the docs list the full schema).
- idstring
- titlestring
- Per ADR 0004 Rule 6: TikTok title is the video description.
- video_descriptionstring
- create_timeinteger
- Unix epoch seconds
- durationnumber
- Seconds
- cover_image_urlstring
- share_urlstring
- Tracking-param-stripped canonical URL
- embed_linkstring
- widthinteger
- heightinteger
- like_countinteger
- comment_countinteger
Agents & Skills built on TikTok
You rarely call General TikTok search (returns videos) by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read TikTok data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
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Social media handle availability checker
Check a username across every social platform in one shot.
TikTok viewer — see profiles and videos, no login
Any public TikTok profile without an account: followers, likes, bio and the latest videos with their views.
TikTok followers viewer — see who follows anyone
Browse who follows a public TikTok account, and who it follows, without logging in.
TikTok trending topics — live feed sample
What's trending on TikTok right now, sampled live from the recommendation feed.
Agents
More TikTok operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
List videos using a TikTok music track
Return the videos that use a given TikTok sound, by music ID, as a cursor-paginated list. Useful for measuring how a sound is spreading and finding the creators who adopted it.
Search TikTok hashtags by keyword
Search TikTok hashtags by keyword, returning matching hashtags with their metadata as a cursor-paginated list. Useful for trend discovery and planning hashtag strategy.
Search TikTok users by keyword
Search TikTok accounts by keyword, returning matching public profiles as a cursor-paginated list. Useful for creator discovery, influencer research, and competitive account mapping.
Search TikTok videos by keyword
Returns a paginated list of TikTok videos matching the keyword `q`. Use `next_cursor` from the response as the next request's `cursor`.
Get TikTok recommendation videos
Return a batch of videos from TikTok's recommendation feed for a given region. Useful for sampling trending and algorithmically surfaced content across a market.
Get a TikTok hashtag by ID
Return a TikTok hashtag (challenge) by its numeric ID, including its title, description, and aggregate view count. Useful for sizing a hashtag's reach before pulling its videos.