Get a TikTok video by ID · TikTok API
Returns canonicalized metadata for a single TikTok video. The `{id}` must be the numeric TikTok video id.
Using ChatGPT, Claude Code or another client? See the setup steps
curl https://api.unifapi.com/tiktok/videos/{id} \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- idpathrequired
- Digits only.
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
- Fetch canonical public TikTok content for summarization, ranking, monitoring, or enrichment.
- Attach engagement, author, media, and source metadata to an agent workflow.
- 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
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The `billing.records_charged` field reports the charged billable-record quantity for the successful response.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
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 in the data object
A successful Get a TikTok video by ID call returns one data object with 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 Get a TikTok video by ID 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.
Resolve a TikTok username to a user id
Accepts a public TikTok username (handle) and returns the user's stable opaque id for other /tiktok/users/{id} endpoints.
List top-level comments on a TikTok video
Returns a paginated list of top-level comments on the given video. Use `next_cursor` from the response as the next request's `cursor`.
List replies to a TikTok comment
Return the replies to a specific comment on a TikTok video, identified by the numeric video ID and comment ID, as a cursor-paginated list. Useful for following threaded conversations and analyzing audience discussion.
Batch-fetch TikTok videos by ID
Return canonicalized metadata — author, captions, sound, and engagement counts — for up to 20 TikTok videos in one request, by numeric video ID. Useful for hydrating a set of videos without one call each.
Resolve a TikTok share URL to a video
Accepts a TikTok share URL (long or short / vm.tiktok.com) and returns the canonical Video object.
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.