# TikTok Search Music API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/tiktok/search-music)

> Searches TikTok's sound catalogue by keyword and returns up to thirty matching sounds per page, each with its title, artist, duration, cover art, a preview audio URL, and the number of videos using it under `post.ext.video_count`. Where TikTok knows the track on the major music stores, `post.ext.dsp_ids` carries its Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon ids, which is what makes a sound joinable to catalogue data outside TikTok. `post.ext.matched_song_id` is the catalogue song the sound plays, the same id video rows carry: one song can sit behind several official sounds, so searching a video's `matched_song_title` and `matched_song_artist` and keeping the sounds whose `matched_song_id` equals the video's finds every official sound of that song, each with its own `video_count`. Pass `post.ext.music_id` to `/v1/tiktok/song/videos` to see the videos using a sound.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/tiktok/search/music` costs 1 credit per call and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | yes | Search keyword, matched against sound titles and creators. |
| `cursor` | no | Cursor from the previous response to fetch the next page of sounds. |
| `sort_by` | no | Result ordering: relevance (default), most-used, most-recent, shortest or longest. (relevance \| most-used \| most-recent \| shortest \| longest) |
| `filter_by` | no | Which field the keyword is matched against: all (default), title or creators. (all \| title \| creators) |
| `region` | no | Two-letter country code for the proxy location. Defaults to US. |
| `since` | no | Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following `next_cursor`, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. `published_after`, `start_date`, `from_date`, `publish_time` (`yesterday`, `this-week`, `this-month`, `last-3-months`, `last-6-months`) and `max_age_days` are accepted and applied as `since`. |
| `until` | no | Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. `published_before`, `end_date` and `to_date` are accepted and applied as `until`. |
| `max_pages` | no | 1 to 50 (default 1, or 50 when `max_items` or `max_credits` is sent). Walk up to this many pages in one call and return the rows from all of them. Each page walked is billed exactly as one call to this endpoint (a cached page is free) and counts against your rate limit; its charge and any refund are recorded under the page's own request id, listed in `data.walk.request_ids`. The walk stops early at the last page, or when the request's time budget runs low; `data.walk.stopped` says why (`end`, `max_pages`, `max_items`, `max_credits`, `time_budget`, `page_error`) and `pagination.next_cursor` continues from where it stopped. |
| `max_items` | no | 1 to 5000. Get more in one call: keep walking pages until the response holds at least this many rows, then stop with `data.walk.stopped: "max_items"`. The last page is returned whole (it was billed), so `data.items` can hold up to one page more than this, and `pagination.next_cursor` resumes right after it without skipping a row. Walks up to 50 pages unless `max_pages` says fewer; each page is billed as one call (a cached page is free). Add `max_credits` to cap the spend. A long walk can stop on the time budget first (`"time_budget"`): send the returned cursor with the same params to continue. |
| `max_credits` | no | 1 to 100000. The most this call may spend, across every page it walks. A page starts only while the credits already spent plus that page's price (or, when higher, the most any page of this walk has cost) still fit, so the call never goes past it; the walk then stops with `data.walk.stopped: "max_credits"` and the cursor to resume. Sent alone, it walks as far as the budget goes (up to 50 pages). A value below the price of one page is a free 400 whose `error.details.page_credits` names that price. Credits a row join (`include=`) adds are known only once a page has run, so page 1 is checked against its own price. |

## Code example

```bash
curl -G "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/search/music" \
  --data-urlencode "query=espresso" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## FAQ

### What does the TikTok Search Music API return?

Returns TikTok sounds matching a keyword, each with title, artist, duration, cover art, a preview audio URL, and how many videos use it. The response uses the same JSON envelope as every SocialCrawl endpoint, with the data, credits_used and request_id fields.

### When should I use the TikTok Search Music endpoint?

Use it to size a sound trend, or to join a TikTok sound to Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon through the store ids on ext.dsp_ids.

### How much does the TikTok Search Music API cost?

Each call costs 1 credit, so the 100 free credits every new account gets cover 100 calls. Credits for failed or empty calls are refunded automatically, and there is no subscription.

### What parameters does the TikTok Search Music API need?

The one required parameter is query (search keyword, matched against sound titles and creators). It also accepts 9 optional parameters, all listed on this page.

### How do I call the TikTok Search Music API?

Send a GET request to https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/search/music?query=espresso with your API key in the x-api-key header. An Authorization: Bearer header works too.

See the full TikTok API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/tiktok

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing

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