TikTok API for AI Agents

Public TikTok search and data as structured JSON.

Search public TikTok content and pull posts, profiles, comments, hashtags, and trending data through one developer-friendly API — normalized JSON, one API key, usage-based pricing.

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Endpoints

Every TikTok endpoint returns structured JSON. Public TikTok search and normalized public post, profile, comment, hashtag, and trending data. Download-only or no-watermark media surfaces are not exposed.

POST/desearch/tiktok/searchTikTok Search API
GET/desearch/tiktok/post/{id}Retrieve TikTok Post by ID
GET/desearch/tiktok/profile/{username}Retrieve TikTok Profile
GET/desearch/tiktok/profile/{username}/postsRetrieve TikTok Profile Posts
GET/desearch/tiktok/comments/{video_id}Retrieve TikTok Comments
GET/desearch/tiktok/hashtag/{tag}Retrieve TikTok Hashtag Posts
GET/desearch/tiktok/trendingRetrieve TikTok Trending Posts

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Quick start

Create a key in the console, then call the TikTok Search endpoint. Python and JavaScript SDKs are in the docs.

curl -X POST 'https://api.desearch.ai/desearch/tiktok/search' \
  -H "Authorization: $DESEARCH_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ "query": "your search" }'

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What developers build with the TikTok API

Feed AI agents fresh context

Give agents fresh public social signals before they reason, write, or act.

Monitor mentions & hashtags

Track brands, topics, and hashtags across returned public posts and comments.

Trend & sentiment analysis

Pull profiles, posts, and engagement to measure what is moving right now.

Enrich datasets

Normalize public posts, profiles, and comments as JSON for pipelines and dashboards.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about the Desearch TikTok API

The Desearch TikTok API gives developers programmatic access to public TikTok data — search, posts, profiles, comments, hashtags, and trending — returned as clean structured JSON for AI agents and data workflows.

Create a free account at console.desearch.ai, copy your API key, and call the REST endpoints with the key in the Authorization header. Python and JavaScript SDKs and ready-to-paste snippets are in the docs.

Yes. The Desearch TikTok API returns public data only. Private, authenticated, messaging, and publishing surfaces are not exposed.

Pricing is usage-based — you pay only for the requests you make, with $5 in credits added when you attach a card at sign-up. See the pricing page for current rates.

Every response is structured JSON, normalized for AI pipelines and agent workflows, so you can parse and ingest it without scraping raw HTML.

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