TikTok Search Users API
Scrape TikTok Search Users data with one API call. Searches TikTok for user accounts matching a query, 30 per page. Each row carries the username, display name, avatar, profile URL, verification status, whether the account is private, and the follower, following, video and like counts. The search surface publishes nothing else, so on a plain call `author.bio`, `author.location`, `author.ext.bio_link` and `author.ext.business_category` are null on every row. Send `include=profile` and every row is joined, in the same call, to the profile lookup that carries them: the bio, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 region at `author.location`, the link in the bio and the account category land on each row. Cost: 1 credit for the page plus 1 credit per row filled from a fresh lookup (30 rows, so 31 at most); rows already in cache are filled for free, rows that could not be filled are refunded, and a repeat of the same call within the cache window is 0. Time: a plain call is about 2 seconds; `include=profile` adds 4 to 9 seconds on a fresh page (the lookups run in parallel and the call waits for the slowest, never more than 12 seconds) and nothing when the rows are already cached. `limit=N` (1 to 30) takes the top N rows of the page and, with `include`, caps the extra credits at N. The response carries a `hydration` block itemising rows, lookups, cache hits, credits and milliseconds. The counts on a search row are the search index's own figures and can trail the profile's by a few thousand on a large account; the join never overwrites a value the row already carries. Page with cursor. Send `country=` as an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (KR, US, DE, …) to search for creators whose account region is that country instead of the global page: each returned row already carries `author.location`, the bio and the profile URL, the call does not paginate, and a row whose region does not match is dropped. Cost: 5 credits per in-country creator returned (8 by default, at most 20 via `limit`); unused slots are refunded. A typo is a free 400. The global 1-credit page is unchanged when `country` is omitted.
Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
Returns TikTok accounts for a search term with username, name, avatar, followers, verification. include=profile adds bio, region, link and category. country= keeps one account region, 5 credits a row.
Use it to find accounts by name or topic. Add country=KR (or US, DE, …) when you need creators in one country. The video searches, search and search/top, give you posts rather than accounts.
Searching 68 platforms in parallel
TikTok·
Instagram·
YouTube·
Facebook·
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LinkedIn·
Reddit·
Threads·
Pinterest·
Twitch·
Truth Social·
Snapchat·
Kick·
Bluesky·
Kwai·
Rumble·
Spotify·
Apple Music·TikTok Shop·
Amazon Shop·
Google Shopping·
Trustpilot·
TripAdvisor·
Yelp·
Linktree·
Komi·
Pillar·
lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·Google News·
Finance·
Polymarket·
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Hacker News·
GitHub·
Perplexity·
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Universal SearchTikTok·Instagram·YouTube·Facebook·X·LinkedIn·Reddit·Threads·Pinterest·Twitch·Truth Social·Snapchat·Kick·Bluesky·Kwai·Rumble·Spotify·Apple Music·TikTok Shop·Amazon Shop·Google Shopping·Trustpilot·TripAdvisor·Yelp·Linktree·Komi·Pillar·lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·Google News·Finance·Polymarket·Tavily·Hacker News·GitHub·Perplexity·Naver·Utility·Universal SearchTikTok·Instagram·YouTube·Facebook·X·LinkedIn·Reddit·Threads·Pinterest·Twitch·Truth Social·Snapchat·Kick·Bluesky·Kwai·Rumble·Spotify·Apple Music·TikTok Shop·Amazon Shop·Google Shopping·Trustpilot·TripAdvisor·Yelp·Linktree·Komi·Pillar·lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·Google News·Finance·Polymarket·Tavily·Hacker News·GitHub·Perplexity·Naver·Utility·Universal SearchTikTok·Instagram·YouTube·Facebook·X·LinkedIn·Reddit·Threads·Pinterest·Twitch·Truth Social·Snapchat·Kick·Bluesky·Kwai·Rumble·Spotify·Apple Music·TikTok Shop·Amazon Shop·Google Shopping·Trustpilot·TripAdvisor·Yelp·Linktree·Komi·Pillar·lnk.bio·Facebook Ads·Google Ads·LinkedIn Ads·Google Search·Google News·Finance·Polymarket·Tavily·Hacker News·GitHub·Perplexity·Naver·Utility·Universal SearchWhat can you do with the Search Users API?
The Search Users endpoint gives you structured TikTok data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/search/users?query=cooking&country=KR&trim=true"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/search/users",
params={
'query': 'cooking',
'country': 'KR',
'trim': 'true',
},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()const response = await fetch(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/search/users?query=cooking&country=KR&trim=true",
{
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();Parameters worth sending
trim=trueSame price, lighter payload: drops the bulky raw fields.
Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | Yes | Search keyword or phrase to find TikTok users |
| cursor | No | Cursor to get more users. Get 'cursor' from previous response. |
| trim | No | Accepted for compatibility; the response is already the canonical shape, so this flag has no effect. |
| include | No | Set to `profile` (one token only) to fill `author.bio`, `author.location` (the ISO region), `author.ext.bio_link` and `author.ext.business_category` on every row in this one call. Holds 1 credit per row (at most 30, or `limit`) and keeps only the rows filled from a fresh lookup; rows already in cache and rows that could not be filled are refunded, so the most a call can cost is 1 + rows. Adds 4 to 9 seconds on a fresh page (never more than 12) and nothing when the rows are already cached; read `data.hydration` for the rows, the credits held and kept, and the time. (profile) |
| limit | No | Take the top N rows of the page (1 to 30) after the search has run. With `include=profile` it also caps the extra credits at N: `limit=5&include=profile` costs at most 6. With `country=` it is the in-country page size (1 to 20, default 8) and the credit cap at 5 per row. On the global page it is not a page size: `next_cursor` still advances past the full page, so rows beyond N on this page are not returned by the next page. |
| country | No | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 account region to filter by (KR, US, DE, …). Returns only creators whose public region is that country, 5 credits per row returned (8 by default, at most 20). Omit it for the global 1-credit page. A code this endpoint does not accept is a free 400. (US | GB | CA | AU | NZ | IE | DE | FR | ES | IT | PT | NL | BE | CH | AT | SE | NO | DK | FI | IS | PL | CZ | SK | HU | RO | BG | GR | HR | RS | SI | UA | RU | TR | IL | AE | SA | QA | KW | EG | MA | ZA | NG | KE | GH | TZ | ET | BR | MX | AR | CO | CL | PE | VE | EC | UY | PY | BO | CR | PA | DO | JM | JP | KR | CN | TW | HK | MO | SG | MY | ID | TH | VN | PH | IN | PK | BD | LK | NP | MM | KH) |
What does the TikTok Search Users API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"endpoint": "/v1/tiktok/search/users",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"author": {
"id": "user_b74616",
"username": "user_ef0400",
"display_name": "user_82bd81",
"avatar_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_821deb.png",
"bio": null,
"verified": false,
"followers": 14408,
"following": 219,
"posts_count": 262,
"likes_count": 74311,
"url": "https://example.com/user_46a6c2",
"location": null,
"private": false
}
},
{
"author": {
"id": "user_709cf2",
"username": "user_c06917",
"display_name": "user_e5d123",
"avatar_url": "https://example.com/avatars/user_c98d93.png",
"bio": null,
"verified": true,
"followers": 4989481,
"following": 42,
"posts_count": 673,
"likes_count": 113375507,
"url": "https://example.com/user_454f83",
"location": null,
"private": false
}
}
],
"next_cursor": "sc2.eyJzIjoiYiIsImMiOiJzY3AuZXlKMklqb3hMQ0p4SWpwN0ltTjFjbk52Y2lJNklqTXdJaXdpYzJWaGNtTm9YMmxrSWpvaU1qQXlOakV3TURJd056STNNalEzUWpRek0wVkVOMFZDTjBJMU1FTkNNMFkyUmlKOWZRIn0",
"total": null,
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoic2MyLmV5SnpJam9pWWlJc0ltTWlPaUp6WTNBdVpYbEtNa2xxYjNoTVEwcDRTV3B3TjBsdFRqRmpiazUyWTJsSk5rbHFUWGRKYVhkcFl6SldhR050VG05WU1teHJTV3B2YVUxcVFYbE9ha1YzVFVSSmQwNTZTVE5OYWxFelVXcFJlazB3VmtWT01GWkRUakJKTVUxRlRrTk5NRmt5VW1sS09XWlJJbjAiLCJlIjoidGlrdG9rL3NlYXJjaC91c2VycyIsInAiOiJjdXJzb3IifQ",
"has_more": true,
"page_size": 2
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-02T07:27:26.112Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the TikTok Search Users API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
}Have a question? We got answers
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