TikTok tikTok Profile API

Scrape a TikTok profile and its videos

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "username": "khaby.lame"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({username: 'khaby.lame'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile"

payload = { "username": "khaby.lame" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "results": [
      {
        "videoUrl": "<string>",
        "type": "video",
        "authorUrl": "<string>",
        "authorIsVerified": true,
        "isAd": true,
        "isAiGenerated": true,
        "videoId": "<string>",
        "text": "<string>",
        "hashtags": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "mentions": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "durationSeconds": 123,
        "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
        "imageUrls": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "views": 0,
        "likes": 0,
        "comments": 0,
        "shares": 0,
        "saves": 0,
        "authorId": "<string>",
        "authorUsername": "<string>",
        "authorName": "<string>",
        "authorAvatarUrl": "<string>",
        "audioId": "<string>",
        "audioTitle": "<string>",
        "audioArtist": "<string>",
        "audioIsOriginal": true
      }
    ],
    "userId": "<string>",
    "username": "<string>",
    "userUrl": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "bio": "<string>",
    "bioLinkUrl": "<string>",
    "avatarUrl": "<string>",
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPrivate": true,
    "isOrganization": true,
    "language": "<string>",
    "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "followers": 0,
    "following": 0,
    "likes": 0,
    "videos": 0,
    "cursor": "<string>"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

POST

tiktok

profile

Scrape a TikTok profile and its videos

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "username": "khaby.lame"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({username: 'khaby.lame'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile"

payload = { "username": "khaby.lame" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "results": [
      {
        "videoUrl": "<string>",
        "type": "video",
        "authorUrl": "<string>",
        "authorIsVerified": true,
        "isAd": true,
        "isAiGenerated": true,
        "videoId": "<string>",
        "text": "<string>",
        "hashtags": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "mentions": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "publishedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "durationSeconds": 123,
        "thumbnailUrl": "<string>",
        "imageUrls": [
          "<string>"
        ],
        "views": 0,
        "likes": 0,
        "comments": 0,
        "shares": 0,
        "saves": 0,
        "authorId": "<string>",
        "authorUsername": "<string>",
        "authorName": "<string>",
        "authorAvatarUrl": "<string>",
        "audioId": "<string>",
        "audioTitle": "<string>",
        "audioArtist": "<string>",
        "audioIsOriginal": true
      }
    ],
    "userId": "<string>",
    "username": "<string>",
    "userUrl": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "bio": "<string>",
    "bioLinkUrl": "<string>",
    "avatarUrl": "<string>",
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPrivate": true,
    "isOrganization": true,
    "language": "<string>",
    "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "followers": 0,
    "following": 0,
    "likes": 0,
    "videos": 0,
    "cursor": "<string>"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

Scrape a TikTok profile and its videos. The user is identified by its URL or username.

Request

Exactly one of userUrl or username is required. A request that sets both, or none, fails with invalidRequest.

This endpoint can be called without an API key, subject to per-address limits. Pagination requires a key.

import { Stophy } from "stophy";

const stophy = new Stophy({ apiKey: process.env.STOPHY_API_KEY });
const result = await stophy.tiktok.profile({ username: "khaby.lame" });
console.log(result.data.results);

from stophy import Stophy

stophy = Stophy()  # reads STOPHY_API_KEY
result = stophy.tiktok.profile(username="khaby.lame")
print(result["data"]["results"])

curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/tiktok/profile \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STOPHY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username":"khaby.lame"}'

stophy tiktok profile --username khaby.lame

Response

If successful, the response body contains the standard envelope. data contains the profile’s bio and stats, and results lists a page of its videos. The following example is a real response, truncated: each list shows one item and long strings are cut.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "userId": "127905465618821121",
    "username": "khaby.lame",
    "userUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame",
    "name": "Khabane lame",
    "bio": "Se vuoi ridere sei nel posto giusto😎 If u wanna laugh u r in the right place😎",
    "avatarUrl": "https://p19-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-avt-0068-tx2/08987e23b94057953fd4f1738694bf5f~tplv-tiktokx-cropcen…",
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPrivate": false,
    "isOrganization": false,
    "language": "en",
    "createdAt": "2016-08-10T22:02:34.000Z",
    "followers": 162986955,
    "following": 81,
    "likes": 2685369103,
    "videos": 1357,
    "results": [
      {
        "videoId": "7691740195418377502",
        "videoUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame/video/7691740195418377502",
        "type": "video",
        "text": "Just give me 5 more minutes 😭#learnfromkhaby #comedy ",
        "hashtags": ["learnfromkhaby", "comedy"],
        "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T16:40:54.000Z",
        "durationSeconds": 34,
        "thumbnailUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-p-0068-tx2/o0jRDQRMAbfFAlZX8eqGQcARBqerRfAHR7gVSU~tplv-tiktokx-ori…",
        "views": 3100000,
        "likes": 323800,
        "comments": 5782,
        "shares": 21200,
        "saves": 14931,
        "authorId": "127905465618821121",
        "authorUsername": "khaby.lame",
        "authorName": "Khabane lame",
        "authorUrl": "https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame",
        "authorAvatarUrl": "https://p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-us.com/tos-useast8-avt-0068-tx2/08987e23b94057953fd4f1738694bf5f~tplv-tiktokx-cropcen…",
        "authorIsVerified": true,
        "audioId": "7691740326570019615",
        "audioTitle": "original sound",
        "audioArtist": "Khabane lame",
        "audioIsOriginal": true,
        "isAd": false,
        "isAiGenerated": true
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "1780067181164"
  },
  "creditsUsed": 1,
  "requestId": "2fe9dbad-fc48-4890-9751-0b24b596035b"
}

Field	Type	Description
`cursor`	string	The pagination token. Pass it as `cursor` to retrieve the next page. Omitted on the last page.
`type`	string	The kind of item: `video` or `photo`.
`publishedAt`	string (ISO 8601)	The publication time, in UTC.
`durationSeconds`	number	The duration, in seconds.
`createdAt`	string (ISO 8601)	The creation time, in UTC.
`videos`	integer	The number of videos.

For every field, see the response schema on this page.

Optional parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`cursor`	string	The pagination token from the previous response.

Billing

Each successful request consumes 1 credit, regardless of the number of items returned. Requests that fail, or that return no items, are not billed.

Pagination

Results are paginated. To retrieve the next page, pass the value of data.cursor as cursor in a subsequent request. A response that omits cursor is the last page.

TikTok tikTok Video: Accepts videoUrl. Scrape a TikTok video.
TikTok tikTok Sound: Accepts audioId. Scrape a TikTok sound and its videos.
TikTok tikTok Comments: Accepts videoUrl. Scrape the comments of a TikTok video.
TikTok tikTok Transcript: Accepts videoUrl. Scrape a TikTok video’s transcript.

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

maxTextLength

integer

Cut every text value in the response to this many characters. A value that was cut ends with …, and a page whose text was cut has isTruncated set to true. A screenshot is never cut. Leave it out to get the full text.

Required range: x >= 1

Body

application/json

userUrl

string

Link to the TikTok profile, like https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame. Send this or username.

username

string

TikTok profile username, like khaby.lame. Send this or userUrl.

cursor

string

The cursor from the previous response. Send it as is.

Minimum string length: 1

Response

The data, and the credits this call used.

success

any

required

data

object

required

Show child attributes

creditsUsed

integer

required

requestId

string

required

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