TikTok Trending Hashtags

TikTok Trending Hashtags: the Creative Center ranking for a country, as data

Pick a country and a 7 or 30 day window and you get TikTok's own hashtag ranking back as rows: the rank, the post count, the view count, the industries TikTok files the tag under, the day by day popularity curve behind the ranking, and the creators driving it. This is TikTok's published trend data, not a guess assembled from scraped videos.

Read this before you run it: the public Creative Center page exposes three ranked hashtags. Not thirty, not a hundred. Three. Everything past that sits behind a Creative Center login and a bigger maxResults does not reach it. Three is still the top of a country's ranking, and running it across 27 countries or on a schedule builds a real series, but if you came for a full leaderboard export this is not it.

🔍 What TikTok Trending Hashtags does

It reads the Creative Center trends page for the region and period you chose and turns each ranked tag into a flat row. No login, no key.

The other four rankings on that site, video, creator, song and ad, are not on the anonymous page. Ask for one and you get a row saying PUBLIC_SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE, free of charge. Nothing is invented and hashtags are not quietly returned in their place.

industryIds filters what came back rather than fetching more, so it narrows the three results. When none of them matches you get a NO_MATCHING_INDUSTRY row instead of silence.

📥 What you give it

{
  "trendTypes": ["hashtag"],
  "region": "US",
  "periodDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 3
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the curve and the creator list cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "trendType": "hashtag",
  "rank": 1,
  "region": "US",
  "periodDays": 7,
  "hashtag": "#tiktokfantasymoviecontest",
  "hashtagId": "7667680825462882324",
  "posts": 41847,
  "views": 232807637,
  "industryIds": [],
  "popularityCurve": [
    { "timestamp": "2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z", "value": 0 },
    { "timestamp": "2026-09-07T00:00:00.000Z", "value": 66.58478093010903 },
    { "timestamp": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z", "value": 100 }
  ],
  "topCreators": [
    { "rank": 1, "handle": "queenuxty53", "name": "VictoriaAndersen", "followers": 24070, "country": "US", "profileImageUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/..." }
  ],
  "source": "tiktok_creative_center_public_ssr",
  "sourceUrl": "https://ads.tiktok.com/creative/creativeCenter/trends/hashtag?region=US&period=7",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-14T05:47:10.925Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Two kinds of row land in your dataset.

The Overview table shows errorCode, so a diagnostic is readable without opening the row. The ones you are most likely to meet:

None of them is charged.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open TikTok Trending Hashtags and click Try for free. 2. Pick a country in Region and set Time period to 7 or 30. 3. Click Start. The defaults return the current top three for the United States over 7 days. 4. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.008 per hashtag row. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers. A full run of three is $0.024.

You pay for ranked rows. Diagnostic rows are not charged, so an unavailable trend type, an unsupported country or a page that would not answer costs nothing.

💡 What people use it for

• Running the same country every morning on a schedule and keeping a series of what reached the top.
• Sweeping all 27 countries in one sitting to see which tags travel and which stay local.
• Checking a tag's curve before building a campaign on it, since a tag at 100 today may have peaked.
• Finding smaller creators early: topCreators often lists accounts in the tens of thousands, not

the millions.

🚧 What it does not do

• Three hashtags per run. That is what the public page holds.
• No video, creator, song or ad rankings. They need a Creative Center login, and you get a row

saying so rather than a quiet substitution.

• No history. You get the window you asked for, as it stands now. Build a series by running it

on a schedule.

• Rankings move on TikTok's clock. Running the same country twice within the hour usually

returns the same three tags.

• topCreators is a shortlist, not everyone posting under the tag.
• A number TikTok leaves out reads as 0, so treat a zero view count as "not published" rather

than as none.

• The curve is an index, not volume. The peak day is 100 by construction.

🧭 Which TikTok scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Why only three hashtags? That is all the Creative Center page shows a signed-out visitor. A higher maxResults does not change it, and neither does anything else in the input.

Can I get more by supplying my own cookie? No. The cookie field helps when the page refuses a run, not with the rows behind the login.

What does a value of 100 in the curve mean? It is the busiest day of the window. The curve is scaled to it, so 50 means half the peak day, not fifty posts.

Does industryIds fetch more results? No. It filters the tags that came back, which can leave you with fewer than three, or with a NO_MATCHING_INDUSTRY row.

Is this legal to use? It reads a public page of TikTok's own published rankings. The creator handles in topCreators are personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for keeping them. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Include the region and period you used and the run ID, and the log is usually enough for us to see what happened.