TikTok Followers and Following Scraper

TikTok Followers & Following Scraper: who an account follows, and who follows it

Give it a TikTok handle and get one row per account in its list: handle, display name, bio, avatar, region, verified flag, and that account's own follower, following, video and like counts. Enough to sort a list by size without a second run.

The part that decides whether this fits your project: following lists need nothing from you, and follower lists need your own TikTok cookie. TikTok's public follower route closed in August 2026 and its own one is behind a login, so a followers run without a cookie returns an uncharged row telling you exactly that.

👥 What TikTok Followers & Following Scraper does

Point it at one or more accounts and it walks the list you asked for, page by page, until it hits your row limit, the run's time limit, or the end of the list.

Following is the keyless mode and the one it starts on. Followers needs a cookie from your own TikTok account in sessionCookies. Both does the two lists for every profile you gave it.

Every row is a full profile, not just a handle, so you can filter a following list down to accounts over a certain size without opening any of them.

📥 What you give it

{
  "profiles": ["tiktok", "nba"],
  "listType": "following",
  "maxItemsPerProfile": 100,
  "maxRunSeconds": 90
}

Run it with profiles empty and you get one labelled sample row and nothing else.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run. The bio is cut short here, because the real one carries emoji:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "relationship_profile",
  "uniqueId": "tiktokcreators",
  "userId": "6551237489917432832",
  "nickname": "tiktok creators",
  "signature": "The official account for TikTok Creators who inspire creativity and bring joy ...",
  "avatar": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn.com/tos-maliva-avt-0068/8a3909f3933...",
  "verified": true,
  "region": "PH",
  "followerCount": 8808628,
  "followingCount": 567,
  "videoCount": 1112,
  "likesCount": 33540530,
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAXqqA-cLDC0hfQPIrS5APYNsg04zkl-socWCkqkI3UIOaEe6_Qnokg0GcWpLnMNQP",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokcreators",
  "sourceProfile": "@tiktok",
  "listType": "following",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T05:47:10.009Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

A private account, or one whose list will not open, comes back as a diagnostic row rather than a silent zero.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open TikTok Followers & Following Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Put the accounts into TikTok profiles, deleting the example. 3. Leave List type on Following for a keyless run, or pick Followers and paste your own cookie into Your own account cookies. 4. Set Maximum profiles per input low, say 50, for the first run, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.35 per 1,000 profiles. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

One row is one profile. The sample row and every diagnostic row are not charged, including a followers run that stops because no cookie was supplied.

Two things move the count more than people expect. both fetches two separate lists, and an account in both of them is a row in each. And the limit is applied in pages of 50, so asking for 60 can deliver up to 100. Set maxItemsPerProfile in multiples of 50 if you want the number you asked for.

💡 What people use it for

• Reading who a brand account follows, which is usually a short, deliberate list.
• Finding creators in a niche by walking the following lists of a few accounts in it.
• Sizing an audience: every row carries its own follower count, so you can sort by reach.
• Watching a following list on a schedule and diffing on userId to see who was added.
• Building a contact shortlist where region and verified matter.

🚧 What it does not do

• A followers run needs your own cookie. Without one you get an uncharged UNAVAILABLE row.

That is TikTok's gate, not a setting here.

• A numeric user id cannot be used for a followers run. Give it the handle or the profile link

for that mode.

• 1,000 rows per profile, per list. A big account's full follower list is not reachable here.
• both counts an account twice when it is in both lists, once under each listType.
• The row limit is a page limit underneath, in pages of 50, so a run can return up to 49 rows

more than you asked for.

• A run that hits its time limit returns a partial list, and nothing on the rows marks it as

cut short. Compare the row count against what you asked for.

• Private accounts are out of reach, the same as in a browser.
• No email addresses or phone numbers. Only what the profile shows publicly.
• Counts are a snapshot. Follower numbers move by the hour on big accounts.

🧭 Which TikTok scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Why do followers need a cookie when following does not? TikTok closed the public follower route in August 2026 and its own one is behind a login. Following lists are still served to anyone.

Where do I find my cookie? In Chrome, F12, then Application, Cookies, tiktok.com, and copy at least the sessionid value. It is as good as your password for that account, so use one you are comfortable exposing, and expect it to stop working when you log out.

Can I get the full follower list of a huge account? No. The ceiling is 1,000 per list per run, and TikTok paginates from the top of the list.

What happens to a private account? You get an uncharged diagnostic row for it and the run carries on with the rest.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. userId is stable, so working out who joined or left since last time is a join.

Is this legal? These are public profile pages. The rows are personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting them. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the handle and the listType you used, plus the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.