TikTok User Scraper - Profiles, Followers & Stats (No Login)

TikTok Profile Scraper: follower counts, likes and bio for any public handle

Give it a list of TikTok usernames and you get one flat row per account: followers, following, lifetime likes, video count, bio, verified flag, avatar and the profile link. Nothing to log into.

The part worth knowing first: TikTok hides two of those numbers on most accounts. followingCount and diggCount come back as 0 on plenty of large, active profiles because the account keeps them private, not because the figure is really zero. And this returns the profile only. The videos on it are a different actor, linked further down.

🔍 What TikTok Profile Scraper does

You hand it handles, it hands back the profile record behind each one. Handles are taken with or without the @, and a profile link works just as well since the handle is read straight out of it.

Everything is deduplicated before the rows land, so the same account listed twice in one run comes back once and is billed once. Handles are fetched one at a time rather than in a burst, which is why a long list takes a while.

The field names are TikTok's own rather than the labels you see in the app, because those are the names you will need if you feed the rows into anything else:

A handle that does not exist, or that comes back empty, gets a row saying so and the run carries on to the next one.

📥 What you give it

{
  "profiles": ["tiktok", "nba", "khaby.lame"]
}

Run it with nothing at all and you get one labelled sample row, free, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the avatar link cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "profile",
  "id": "107955",
  "uniqueId": "tiktok",
  "secUid": "MS4wLjABAAAAv7iSuuXDJGDvJkmH_vz1qkDZYo1apxgzaxdBSeIuPiM",
  "nickname": "TikTok",
  "signature": "Your next discovery is waiting on TikTok.",
  "verified": true,
  "avatar": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast5-avt-0068-tx/...",
  "followerCount": 95824985,
  "followingCount": 1,
  "heartCount": 464140394,
  "videoCount": 1591,
  "diggCount": 0,
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktok"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Filter on ok == true and you have your data. NOT_FOUND and BLOCKED both mean no profile came back for that handle, and you can treat them the same way: check the spelling, then try it again later. NO_RESULTS is the single row you get when nothing at all came back for the whole run. TIME_LIMIT means the run neared its time limit and stopped, keeping every profile it had delivered. If no profile had come back by then, the run ends as failed.

One quirk of the Overview table: it shows six columns, so a diagnostic row reads as a nearly blank line there, and followingCount, verified and secUid are not in it at all. Open the row itself or download the JSON and everything is present.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open TikTok Profile Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Type handles into Usernames, one per line, or paste links into Profile URLs. 3. Click Start. 4. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

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

You pay for rows that carry a profile. The sample row, diagnostic rows and the second copy of a handle you listed twice are not charged.

💡 What people use it for

• Refreshing follower and likes counts across a creator list on a schedule, then diffing week to week.
• Vetting a shortlist of accounts before an outreach round, so nobody pitches a dead handle.
• Turning a column of handles from a spreadsheet into a table with real numbers next to it.
• Grabbing secUid for accounts, which is the id that survives a handle change.

🚧 What it does not do

• No videos, comments or follower lists. This is the profile record. Three siblings below cover

the rest.

• followingCount and diggCount are often 0 because TikTok hides them. Read a 0 there as

"not shown", not as "none".

• A private account returns only what TikTok shows the public, which is the name, the bio and

the counts it chooses to display.

• Counts are a snapshot at the moment the row was read, not a history.
• The avatar link is signed and expires. Download the image if you need to keep it.
• No search. You need the handle already. It will not find accounts by topic or keyword.

🧭 Which TikTok scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a TikTok account? No. The cookie field is optional and only comes into play for handles that came back empty without it.

Can I get the account's videos too? Not from here. TikTok Scraper returns the profile row plus the videos on the grid.

Why does a big account show followingCount: 0? Because TikTok is not publishing that number for the account. The same goes for diggCount.

What happens to a handle that does not exist? You get an uncharged row marked ok: false, and the run moves on to the next handle instead of stopping.

Is scraping TikTok legal? This reads public profiles only, never private accounts or messages. Results can still contain personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, so have a reason for collecting it. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify's scheduler, or start it from the API and read the dataset when it finishes.

🆘 If something breaks

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