TikTok Video Downloader

TikTok Video Downloader: public TikTok videos as MP4, or their sound as MP3

Paste links to public TikTok videos and get each one back as a real file: an MP4, or a 128 kbit/s MP3 of the video's own sound. Files land in the run's key-value store and every row carries a direct link you can hand to a browser, a script or the next step of a workflow.

The honest part first. This pulls the copy TikTok serves for playback, so most videos arrive without a logo, but an uploader who burned the TikTok watermark into their own video is stuck with it and nothing here can take it out. Photo posts, slideshows, profiles, sounds, hashtags and live streams are not videos this can download, and some posts TikTok only serves in certain countries.

🎬 What TikTok Video Downloader does

One link in, one file out. It reads what TikTok offers for that post, picks the best copy at or below the quality you asked for, downloads it, checks the file actually decodes as video or audio, stores it, and writes a row with a link to it.

Picture quality is measured on the short side, so 1080 means 1920x1080 for a landscape video and 1080x1920 for a vertical one. A video TikTok does not have at that size comes back at the closest it does have.

Links to Facebook, X or YouTube are not refused blindly: the run tells you which actor takes them.

📥 What you give it

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/7047596209028074758"
  ],
  "quality": "1080",
  "audioOnly": false,
  "maxMegabytes": 500
}

Duplicate links to the same post are skipped rather than downloaded twice.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run, with the signed link trimmed:

{
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/7047596209028074758",
  "host": "tiktok",
  "title": "TikTok video #7047596209028074758",
  "author": "hankgreen1",
  "durationSeconds": 21.27,
  "resolution": "576x1024",
  "format": "mp4",
  "fileSizeBytes": 5076682,
  "billedMegabytes": 6,
  "mediaKey": "tiktok-7047596209028074758.mp4",
  "mediaUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/83C4HbXaY1Dk88AHA/records/tiktok-7047596209028074758.mp4?signature=..."
}

🧾 Reading the output

Two places to look, and they never mix.

A link that fails never reaches the dataset, so a row in the dataset means a file exists. The error text says what happened in plain words: the post is not a video, the post is only served in some countries, the file is over your limit, the link belongs on another actor.

If not a single link produced a file, the run finishes as failed rather than pretending it worked.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open TikTok Video Downloader and click Try for free. 2. Paste your links into TikTok video links, one per line, replacing the example. 3. Pick a Max quality, or tick Audio only (MP3) if you only want the sound. 4. Leave Max megabytes per video alone unless you want a tighter cap, then click Start. 5. Take the files from Storage, or follow mediaUrl from each row.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.001 for every megabyte delivered. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

A file counts as whole megabytes, rounded up, and each row tells you its own figure in billedMegabytes. So a 5.1 MB video counts as 6.

Nothing is charged per megabyte for a link that fails, a video refused for being over your limit, a post that is not a video, or a link that belongs on another actor. Those never move any bytes.

Quality is the lever. A 360p copy of the same post is a fraction of the megabytes of the 1080p one, and audioOnly is smaller again.

💡 What people use it for

• Keeping your own posts as files, on a schedule, instead of trusting an app's download button.
• Feeding clips into an editing or captioning step that needs a real file rather than a page.
• Pulling the sound out of a set of posts as MP3s, for transcription or a music check.
• Archiving a reference set of videos for a report, a pitch or a legal record.

🚧 What it does not do

• It cannot remove a watermark that is part of the video. The playback copy is what gets

downloaded, so a logo the uploader baked in stays.

• Photo posts and slideshows are not downloaded. Neither are profiles, sound pages, hashtag

pages or live streams. Each gets a line in ERRORS saying so.

• Country-limited posts fail. If TikTok only serves a post in some places, the run reports that

rather than guessing.

• Private and deleted posts are out of reach, the same as they are in a browser.
• One link is one video. Give it a profile and it will not walk that account's posts.
• The file is the file. No trimming, resizing or re-encoding happens here.
• Short links are accepted but less tested than full tiktok.com/@name/video/<id> links, so

prefer the full form where you have it.

• Files live in the run's storage and go when the run's data is cleaned up. Copy anything you

want to keep.

🧭 Which downloader do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a TikTok account or cookies? No. Public posts only, and nothing is logged in.

Will the video have a watermark? Usually not, because the playback copy is what is fetched. If the uploader burned one into the video itself, it is in the file and it stays.

Can I download a whole profile? Not here. This takes one video link at a time. Collect the links first, then feed them in.

What if a link is dead or private? It lands in ERRORS with the reason and costs you nothing per megabyte. The rest of the links carry on.

Can I get just the audio? Yes. Tick audioOnly and each link comes back as a 128 kbit/s MP3 of that video's own sound.

Is downloading a TikTok video legal? Copyright sits with whoever made the video, and TikTok's terms apply to you as a user. Downloading your own posts or material you have rights to is the safe ground. 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 link that failed and the run ID, and paste the line for it from the ERRORS record. That line usually names the problem on its own.